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From: Sherry Oppenheim <>
Subject: [POSEN-L] Re: SAMUELS, MARCKS, GA
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:25:18 -0700


I am new to Pozen-L but not to lists in general on rootsweb. I am
researching family from the Pozen region, and would appreciate any
information on the following families/towns. I do appreciate anyone who
reads this entire message and has any information that will even be
close to help. I also can assist people, as I just purchased a copy of
FTM immigration lists, 1548-1940. It is not complete, but if you want
any lookups, please let me know. If too many come in, I will have to do
it slowly and the license agreement limits how many I can do at one
time. But,in return for help here, I am more than happy to help any who
need help. The search process is fairly easy, and gives source info
from the disk.

Immigrant generation who may have entered the US with other family
members (i.e., parents)
Julius SAMUELS of Kolmar
Married
Rebecca MARCKS of Exin

in Quincy Ill, 1859. (Lucky - their children put the towns on their
headstones, with the notation that they were in Germany)

Both show on the census records that they were born in Prussia or
Germany. My geography is a little rusty, but I have been told that Exin
was in Alsaice (sp?) and I suppose my geography is off as I thought that
Alsaice/Lorraine was first a buffer state between France and Germany,
not Germany and Poland. I would appreciate it if someone would give me
a lesson to get this straight.

I have purchased this week an atlas from ~1963 which shows Exin (I found
in another book the Polish name of Kcynia) in the NW corner of central
Poland. Is this the same Exin? Are there more than one Exin?

And, while we are at it, I am also researching Abram (Abraham) GANS and
Johanna GANS. I can't get any closer to Abraham than immigration
records of 1854 for an Abraham Gans, into AMERICA, no age. however,
Johanna came into Ellis Island in 1864 on the SS Breman. She listed her
home or possibly her maiden name as Kleinbeck. It could have been
either, or both, I know. My own family name also has a 'home town' in
Germany - Oppenheim.

Thanks!

sherry

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