This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FLOETER, KEMNITZ, NICHOLAI, NICHOLI Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3EC.2ACE/33.227 Message Board Post: Have uncovered the village from which Johan Freiderich (Fred) Kemnitz (b. 1823), his wife, Anna Marie Nicholai (b. Aug 1825) and their children emigrated to the US and finally Marquette County, WI. The name was Putzig when they lived there, in the northwest part of the Possen province of Prussia. Posen became part of Poland and all the German place names were changed. The village of Putzig is now called Jedrzejewo, in Poznan, Poland. The Kemnitz children were Albertine, Gustav, Henriette, Fred and Julius. They arrived in Chicago, 1864 and settled in Newton Township, Marquette County on land purchased from the government in Sept. 1864.