Dear Rolf-Peter and everyone:
First, I would like to apologize for clogging up the mailing list with
"useless" information as Uwe said. I misunderstood Uwe's first email
about this topic and thought that either Uwe was referring to me not
quoting the names of the books that I had mentioned that I had read, or
that Uwe was referring to Rolf-Peter quoting information given by someone
else at an earlier time. I did not understand that Uwe was talking about
forwarding the message in its entirety in a new post. I am new to the
list and did not know of the rule of not including the entire post. I am
sorry to have offended - I understand now and have been properly
chastised.
Rolf-Peter, thank you again for your response. In my last post, I
should have changed the word from "sharecropper" to farm laborer in every
instance since a sharecropper did not exist in Prussia at the time in
question.
"What I am trying to do here is to find out WHERE her parents lived
when she
left in 1898."
Alright, but this cannot be deduced from the above answers.
Answers could be provided by civil registry records or, perthaps, by
the > Mormon Church that collects such data world wide.
I do realize that I have to do this using actual records. I have used
actual records to verify my great-grandmother's birth in Reussen and her
last residence in Seegenau before coming to the United States. I was
only trying to see if the occupational information I had (sharecropper)
might help me to decide whether to keep searching in the Reussen area for
the 1880-1898 timeframe or if it would be more logical to concentrate my
searching in films in the Seegenau area. Since I have no idea where this
family was from 1880-1898, I needed a place to start and I was trying to
narrow down my search area. I wanted to learn if the term "sharecropper"
would necessarily confine my search only to towns labeled as a
"Rittergut" in Meyers Orts. I now see that I cannot narrow the search
area because of the term sharecropper.
Thank you Rolf-Peter for the link to the other map and thank you so much
for being willing to help me with the questions that I had. I now
understand the concept of Rittergut and Dorf and you have been
tremendously helpful.
Regards,
Laura