Marie,
I have no connection with your family or that particular town, but I
sincerely want to thank you for your explantion of the land ownership
problems. It does us all good to understand not only our distant-historical
ancestors, but also our recent ones.
Thank you very much..............and your English was perfect!!!!!
Linda Schwiesow Nycum
Marie,
I will second Linda's comments. I enjoyed the explanation, also. Before I
received the leads that I have from this website I thought it would be hopeless
to find any information about my German ancestors. I was told that since
Germany had been under so many different rulers over the centuries that many of
the records had been lost, or destroyed. Thank goodness for church records.
Linda gave me a glimmer of hope through her research, which helped me to locate
some ancestoral church records in Russow, and I found another family in the
Pansin church records with the help of a cousin who is doing research on the
same name. (We each had a copy of the same photo, mine with dates on the back,
hers with the name of Pansin, Germany. By putting this together we have located
the church records of our great-grandmother and her parents.)
I am researching the surname GRATOPP from Russow, near Neubuckow and the
surname BERNDT from Pansin. If anyone thinks they have a connection to either
of these families I would appreciate hearing from you. My maiden name was
BERNDT and I knew the least about that line until I started to read the Pansin
film. There are 1,011 entries directly related to my BERNDT line. The names of
BOEKER and LENZ are also of interest to me, as they all intermarried.
Thank you for listening, and I hope to hear from someone about my surnames.
Dorothy Williams, TX
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