Request for Information

Hello Myron G. Fritzler

1. Mehlkemen, Stalupoenen, Ostpreussen, Preussen

Mehlkehmen county Stallupoenen, East Prussia
cath. parish: Bilderweitschen, ev.parish: Mehlkehmen, civil registration:
Mehlkemen

4. Allenstein, Allenstein, Ostpreussen, Preussen

Allenstein county Allenstein, Warmia, East Prussia
cath. parish/ev. parish and civil registration = Allenstein
some films available at the family history centers of the Mormons

6. Pillupoehnen, Stallupoenen, Ostpreussen, Preussen

Pillupoenen county Stallupoehnen, East Prussia
cath. parish: Bilderweitschen, ev.parish: Pillupoenen, civil registration:
Pillupoenen

7. Lengwethen, Tilsit-Ragnit, East,PreussenGraudenz, Westpreussen,
Preussen

Lengwethen county Ragnit, East Prussia
cath. parish: Riedelsberg-Wischwill, ev. parish: Lentwethen, civil
registration: Lengwethen

Graudenz county Graudenz, West Prussia
cath. parish/ev. parish and civil registration = Graudenz

8. Goldap, Ostpreussen, Preussen

Goldap county Goldap, East Prussia
cath. parish/ev. parish and civil registration = Goldap

9. Kneiwen, Tilsit-Ragnet, East,Preussen

I found only Kneissen, county Insterburg
cath parish: Insterburg, ev. Kraupischken county Ragnit, civil registration:
Gruenheide

All dates are extracted from the "Gemeindelexikon f�r das Koenigreich Preussen
1907/1908.

For the other cities/villages in todays Germany:
Todays Federal Republic of Germany had the following federal states:

Brandenburg
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Sachsen
Sachsen-Anhalt
Thueringen

these 5 federal states were also called "neue Bundeslaender"

Baden-Wuerttemberg
Bayern
Berlin
Bremen
Hamburg
Hessen
Niedersachsen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Rheinland-Pfalz
Saarland
Schleswig-Holstein

to see on http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/bl/bundeslaender.html

3. Vital, Aachen Stadt, Rheinland, Preussen

Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia) Germany
For Aachen city you will find a lot of batch numbers for catholic,
evangelical, military and also civil registration
maybe Vital means vital records. It seems that Aachen had civil registration
before October 1874.

2. Oberdorla, Mulhausen, Saschsen, Thurigen, Preussen

Oberdorla is located in Thueringen, Maybee when the person in the IGI were
borne ore married it was located in Sachsen-Thueringen.
Informations you will find on http://www.vg-vogtei.de/Gemeinden/gemeinden.php.
I found this site only in German

5. Greuhain, Zwickau, Sashsen

Can this be a misunderstanding and the city/village ist Gruenhain in Saxonia?

For translation a good site is http://babelfish.altavista.com/

To find a city/village a good site is
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp
or Karsten Krickhahns site
http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp
On this site I think you will also find the todays name

The German genealogy site in English is to find with
http://www.genealogienetz.de/index_en.html

and for information on the history of Poland go to
http://www.polishroots.com/genpoland/index.htm

Good luck for your research an many greetings

Waltraud Render-Genilke