Thanks for the help. I can't understand why they would tell the census taker Oldenburg Prussia---- unless the census taker just added the Prussia and didn't get it from the people. This was an all German settlement though.
Thanks, Karen
Researching my Cain, Brazzel, Boettcher, Keenan, Brandt families
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brandt/index.html
Thanks for the help. I can't understand why they would tell the
census taker Oldenburg Prussia---- unless the census taker just added
the Prussia and didn't get it from the people. This was an all German
settlement though.
I think Prussia and Germany were somewhat synonymous with many people not
familiar with the German state system. Germany as such didn't really get going until
1871.
Fred
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