Tom
Here is a webpage with a free Mecklenburg Gazetteer and guide to the 1819 census. It also gives where the church parish is located for each village. Though the website is for a research service company, the company has many free help pages so that people may locate answers themselves.
http://www.progenealogists.com/germany/mecklenburg/meckgaz.htm
Good Luck fellow Gross Niendorf descendant.
Lisa
My thanks, along with many other German heritage researchers for this website information. My WEINBERG ancestors lived in Eldena, Malk and Karenz. Dottie
Thanks for forwarding this to me. I have some questions re my Charles K of MI but I had not been on-line with Mecklenburg-L and Krueger-L for a long time. I forgot my access info. I am thinking of signing up as a new member.
I've actually gone through lots of parish records of the northwestern Mecklenburg and had three "suspected" candidates for my ancestor who showed up in 1857 in Wayne and Macomb Co, MI. Left no records where he came from and a wide open range of 1854-1855 immigration year in the 1900 census. There were actually Kroegers/Kruegers in MI since 1836, some were from Baden-Wurtemberg (I found them!); not my ancestor-if I go by their 1870, 1880 and 1900 Fed census.
I'm having computer problems, too. So...
Happy New Yearto all.
Evelyn Kregear