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From: "Marge" <>
Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Place in Germany
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:05:00 -0600
References: <433842.21833.qm@web110015.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <433842.21833.qm@web110015.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>


I think the geography part is confusing. The way I understand it, Prussia
was a loosely knit bunch of countries, ruled by a king and at one time quite
large. stretched far into Poland. I read they acquired land by marrying
into the kingdoms and also war. Germany didn't become a country until after
the turn of the 18th century. Does anyone know the date? And the date that
Prussia started? And even now, they are divided by names like Hesse, ect,
which is sort of like our states or provinces and then farther divided
called a Kreis,or district, and then again into a town or hamlet. We can
all use history lessons when looking for our ancesters. I love this list.
marge

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From: "juliasgenes" <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:49 PM
To: <>
Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Place in Germany

> Hi, Lorri ~
> Check JewishGen Communities Database at
> http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp (you may have heard of it
> as "ShetelSeeker", the prior name that means the equivalent of "hometown".
> A Bergfeld search comes out as today's Barchfeld, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen.
> Since I know nothing about German geography (Prussia was near Germany,
> wasn't it? .^_^.), I'll leave you to follow the links from the search. And
> to any comments other Listees care to make. In addition to this list's
> webpage & forum, there's a Rootsweb list called Prussia-Roots that's very
> helpful with these kinds of questions, though I haven't been there in at
> least 1+ years.
> http://www.germanyroots.comhttp://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/DEU/PRUSSIA-ROOTS.html
> Good luck, Julia
>
> --- On Wed, 1/13/10, Lorri <> wrote:
>
> ...the place he lived was BERGFELD would anyone have any Idea where this
> is?...
> Lorri
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