greetings...i am trying to find my great grandfather Wilhelm B�hm , and his son Max Frederick B�hm born 2/2/1851 who were living in Marienwerder, Prussia (now kwidzyn, Polnad).
Max emigrated to the United States in 1873, supposingly from Hamburg to Baltimore, Maryland..but no records. Max lived in Bay City, MIchigan, and died in February, 1911.
i found LDS records that indicated the fiancee of Max, Lenore or Eleonore Novark (Novark) was from Gunthen, Prussia, 12 miles east (now Gonty, Poland) who was born in 1857.
They were lutheran, and i the LDS site indicated Wilhelm Bohm and his wife Wilhelmina Wollenberg were the parents of max F Bohm. Any means to search tax records, or church records? i contacted in english the website sent : http://www.westpreussen.de/standesamt/standesamt.php?landkreis=Marienwerder but did not receive a reply. i am not able to write or speak German, and that web site is not in english.
I also tried Regionalseiten offline
which led me to List of evangelical parishes in Westpreussen
http://paris.chem.yale.edu/~zondlo/wpru-ev.html
and that web site was changed. not quite sure how to approach this?
thanks for anyone's help.
William Boehm
Thankyou for your help.