From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Aug 22 09:00:07 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7MF07jb012828; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:00:07 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7MF06Xb029938 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:00:06 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7MCK3FI012208 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:20:03 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7MCK3Em012207 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:20:03 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7M6cRFI011008 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:38:27 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7M9IF2u027562 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:18:15 -0600 X-Envelope-From: bpusch@adelphia.net Tue Aug 22 03:18:15 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7M9IFjb027553 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:18:15 -0600 Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7M9IDe0005661 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:18:13 -0600 Received: from web30 ([68.168.75.78]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060822091805.JRGC14558.mta9.adelphia.net@web30>; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:18:05 -0400 Message-ID: <16756567.1156238285484.JavaMail.root@web30> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 2:18:05 -0700 From: To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sensitivity: Normal X-Spam-Score: 3.199 (***) BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE,NO_REAL_NAME,PRIORITY_NO_NAME X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Finding Prussian/Polish surname records for the 1840's without a town name My grandfather Johann or John Pusch was born about 1841, perhaps in Prussia, and immigrated, apparently alone, in about 1870 to Mankato, MN USA. He may have been a stonemason. He apparently thought of himself as a German and was probably brought up as a German Lutheran. His birth records may be in a Lutheran church somewhere in Prussia. I have been unable to find any ship or immigration records and have no idea of the port of entry. I only know that he arrived in Mankato, MN before 1872. I have tried German language and other surname sites and all the other search sites I could find but found very few Pusches listed anywhere and none that seemed to fit what I think I know about his name and the time and place of his birth. There was even another family of Pusches in Mankato, MN in the 1870's, including another Johann, but they were apparently unrelated. To further complicate it, his surname may have been spelled Busch, Push or Bush instead on Pusch and his given name may have also been spelled in different ways. To identify him, I would need to find not only a similar name born at a similar time but some tie in to occupation and immigration ideally to Mankato, MN. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might proceed? Bruce