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Comment by Lee Tsakalos on October 4, 2011 at 5:11am

Looking for KRUSE Families from KIEL,Schleswig-Holstein, 1800s,Lutheran Church descendants of Johann Hinrich Kruse and wife Freiderika Georgine Elsabe Schultz, occpuation Farmer.  Son Johann Heinrich Lorenz Kruse migrated to Port Phillip, Melbourne Australia 1854.  Have some Kruse Families photos taken in the Alfred Lewitz Studio in Hamburg.

Comment by Connie Underwood on September 28, 2011 at 1:13pm

Hello

   I am reserching my grandfathers family who were Germans from Russia.  They were from the Odessa area.   I am interested in finding info on when they lived in Russia and where they came from prior to moving.   The last name is Fritchel.  I am sure there has been changes in the spelling but his first name was Gottlieb.  they came to US in early 1900's and settled in Colorado.   Any help or tips would be great thanks..

Comment by James P. LaLone on September 25, 2011 at 8:43am

Book notice - Beginning German research-

 

http://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=14299

Comment by Helen Pust on September 2, 2011 at 10:04am

Hi all

Thanks for replying to my problems.  Yes I have his US naturalization papers.  I recd. them from the Swift County Historical Society.  In 1900 he lived in Danvers Village MN. I have the land papers from there and they moved her in spring of 1904.  On all his papers he states Germany or Prussia as home.  I don't know names of his family but I believe he joined them when he came to US just not sure where.  Minnesota is the only place I can put him.

 

Comment by Pavel Kůrečka on September 2, 2011 at 10:02am

My urgroßvater  and urgroßmutter came to MI in 1870s and no govt. document listed anything but Germany or Prußen.  But their 1870s wedding record kept by the church - in "gothic" German - listed both of their hometowns.  I was able to decipher his and found family records in Jarmen; can not decipher her hometown.

Comment by Ellen Healy on September 2, 2011 at 9:34am

Yes, they did, Frederick. On the 1910 census, my gggrandfather says he if from Germany. By the 1920 census, they state they came from Pennsylvania! :-) The street they lived on in Jersey City was called Germania Avenue, after changed to Liberty Avenue. :-) Amazing stuff- I find this all so interesting.

Comment by Frederick george henchell on September 2, 2011 at 8:25am

I don't disagree with Ellen's comment.  I just believe that you need to follow every clue and investigate every possibility.  With the outbreak of WWI, many German immigrants in this country applied for citizenship because of the hate and hysteria that was directed towards Germans and Germany.

Comment by Marianne Szabo on September 2, 2011 at 7:50am

For Helen Pust: Family Search.org has several August Pust listings. Some are in Germany, the others are the 1900 and 1910 Census which put him in Illinois. You should be able to tell from the names of the family members if this is "your" August Pust in the censuses.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/records#count=20&query=%2Bg...

Comment by Ellen Healy on September 1, 2011 at 5:47pm

Sadly, Frederick, not all Naturalization papers show place of birth. This information is mostly available on forms after, I think, 1900. I know all of my great-great grandfather's papers (First Papers, Nat. Cert. ) only only say "Germany." He arrived in, according to the census, 1882, and was naturalized in 1892. I do have his Nat. Papers.

Comment by Frederick george henchell on September 1, 2011 at 4:43pm

Did August Post become a naturalized US citizen?  If so, his citizenship papers would show his place of birth.  That's how I found my great grandfather's birth place.  Depending how long he lived, some of the US census show if he had applied for citizenship.  I was eventually able to get a copy of the application filled out in my relatives handwriting.

 

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