"Cactus Flower" <barbie8674@hotmail.com> schrieb:
Dear HPA,
I very much appreciate that site. I tried search for Sahs and Potrafke.
The names not really rare but seemed mostly from similar area. The site I
believe even reported something like after 1920 in Hamburg practically gone
if I understood correctly.It makes me wonder why in 1932 my grandparents visited Bernberg.
They also were in Bergedorf, Hamburg.
It made me wonder about the Carl Max Theodore Sass naturalization document I
discovered in St. Louis that mentioned Nueruppin? and Nuebrandenberg?What is your opinion?
Barbie-Lew
Hi Barbie-Lew,
he city of Hamburg always has been a centre of immigration for people from the surrounding northern parts of Germany. There has even been an integration of lots of Polish people by integration into the working processes of the city. As still up to 1945 there were 80 percent of the people in the countryside workers on farms and people living in any way of farmwork, the towns and especially Hamburg were a magnet for those trying to make there living as industrial worker or on another profession. And if that would not work, one had already done one step more forward to an emmigration more far away because of being already in Hamburg and the ships to bring people abroad.
So it might be possible your SASS came earlier before - there might have been meanwhile years and decades of stay in Hamburg - from the Mecklenburg or Pommern region, but still re-membered the beginning of their living was not Hamburg, but Neuruppin and Neubrandenburg. So you have to see, in what sense this places are mentioned in the St.Louis-paper. If the date lays after 1875 you can write to the local town archive of these places for official birth and other documents if you are in one direct line descending. One might at least try after having cleared everything else up to a single lookup for a definitely date, to keep research efforts low. That would not be to expensive. The official documents of civil administration "Standesamt" since 1875 are much more complete as the parish-books as they have gathered all different religious groups and even those who claimed to be of no religion.
Mentionings on the site like : "..almost gone after 1920.." do not state, there was no one with that name anymore at all, but refere to the general aim of getting out the place or region of earliest occurence and by that to new history understanding. And for this purpose the few very mobile bearers of a name, who are documented only in total numbers of one or two, are no hint for a long-distant history of the name at this place. But it gives already the genealogical news that is not to probable that SASS is an old Hamburg family for lots of generations. In this case you would have in general lots of bearers of the name.
Good luck and best to you
Hans Peter Albers, Bienenbüttel