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Rosentreter

Started by Dorothy Kempf Rosentreter May 11.

All Kempers - also spelled Camp in German? 1 Reply

Started by Debra Reese. Last reply by Dorothy Kempf Rosentreter May 11.

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Comment by marguerite Sykes on August 2, 2010 at 6:43pm
thanks, Nancy. Looks like a great site.
Comment by Nancy Loe on August 2, 2010 at 4:10pm
Have you tried looking for naturalization papers, marguerite?

Speaking of which, I just discovered the naturalization "first papers" for 500,000 people in the Midwest are still extant and being indexed. When I went to the Circuit Court in Cook Co. in 2008 they said they had been destroyed.

Details at:

http://sassyjanegenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/08/cook-county-illinois...
Comment by marguerite Sykes on August 2, 2010 at 4:07pm
My great grandfather was Christian Karkutt (1845-1907) born in Prussia and emigrated to US in 1880. I believe he might have been Polish or another area of eastern Prussia. The Karkutt name is relatively new--how can I find where he originated and what his "original" surname was?
Comment by Lisa R on July 31, 2010 at 11:10pm
Thank you Catherine!
Comment by Donna Gates-Smeall on July 31, 2010 at 7:18pm
Thanks, Nancy! This is a great place for me to start.

: ) Donna
Comment by Nancy Loe on July 31, 2010 at 5:32pm
This looks like a good overview as well:

http://www.kindredtrails.com/denmark.html
Comment by Nancy Loe on July 31, 2010 at 2:26pm
Donna, I haven't encountered any Danes yet in my tree, but I'm sure if I work back far enough, the Norwegians and Swedes must have started from there?

Have you tried this link?

http://www.progenealogists.com/denmark/
Comment by Donna Gates-Smeall on July 31, 2010 at 1:11pm
Nancy, what sites are you using to research your Danish ancestors? I too have a host of Danish/German relatives that I need to research and I don't know where to start on this one.
Comment by Nancy Loe on July 31, 2010 at 10:29am
Michael, Thank you for the links - especially the one to the Pomeranian Genealogical Society. That's the part of Germany my research is headed to next.

In the meantime, I've found 64 more ancestors in that small village in Prussia:

http://sassyjanegenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/07/surname-saturday-kir...
Comment by Catherine Davis on July 30, 2010 at 2:25pm
If St. Sebastian's is the Catholic Church, the LDS has microfilmed the church records, and you can rent the film for a nominal price at your local Family History Center. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframese...*,0,0.
 

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