At 6:57 PM -0400 20/5/04, Dopreu@aol.com wrote: >Dear Mike, >Thanks for the information about another Preuss from northern Germany (or was >Tondern then in Denmark?). Hi Don, It's very complicated. I suppose Slevig was Danish until about 1656. Then, I think, it became an independent duchy by the treaty of Roskilde. Then there was a war (or a series of armed quarrels between 1700 and 1720) and part of it became Danish again. Lord Palmerston, a British prime minister of Queen Victoria, is supposed to have said about Shleswig-Holstein that he knew of only three men who understood the situation there. One was Prince Albert, who was dead, another was a professor, who went insane, and himself - and he had forgotten. I suppose there are some who are readers of this group who can be more precise about the status of S-H in the years between 1580 and 1650 than I. Regards, Mike King. -- _____________________________________________________________________ Michael King 255 McClellan Road, Ottawa ON K2H 8N7, Canada ( Phone (613) 828-3781 2 Fax (613) 728-1933 + Email miking@sympatico.ca The box said, Win2K or better required....so I bought a Mac