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From: "Demske" <>
Subject: Re: [POSEN] Records for leaving Posen Germany
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:46:06 -0600
References: <000501c4dd69$4a3e06a0$6401a8c0@vnnyca.adelphia.net>


Does anyone else have more information regarding these military forms. It
would really help in my research.

D. Demske

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay and Diana" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:02 PM
Subject: RE: [POSEN] Records for leaving Posen Germany


> I believe that is correct regarding military status. Somewhere in my
> taxed memory, I recall that being a requirement at that time, although I
> don't have a source to verify.
>
> Diana Grzelak Needham
>
> There is always a song for those who wish to sing
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 12:34 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: RE: [POSEN] Records for leaving Posen Germany
> >
> > My g grandfather, b. 1858 and migrated to America 1884, had with him a
> > military form (that I have a copy of), and the family believed this
> form was
> > required for him to leave Posen, Germany. It contained his place &
> date of
> > birth and his current military status and address.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Pufahl [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 12:38 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: [POSEN] Records for leaving Posen Germany
> >
> >
> > Hello
> > I will again turn to the Posen roots web and the real good people
> that
> > represent the area. I am having a real difficult time in locating the
> birth
> > place of my Grandfather Wilhelm Martin Pufahl born November 17,1854
> Posen
> > Germany and came to the US on the Ship England on the 23rd day of May,
> 1881
> > to the port of New York and came directly to Saginaw County Michigan.
> He is
> > on the passenger list for this ship. I am thinking he came from the
> area of
> > Hasenberg,Radolin Behle, Posen Germany but cannot prove it. I am
> searching
> > the LDS church records for this area but have not come across him. I
> know he
> > left the port of Bremen Germany on the 15th of May 1881 with his
> > brother-in-law John Floerke, and his two cousins Julian and Mikl
> Hatzke.
> > What I am wondering is when my Grandfather left Posen Germany in 1881
> was
> > he required to have any type of paper work to leave the country and
> come
> > here to the US or was people leaving the country able to just walk up
> to the
> > ticket office and buy a ticket for steerage passage and leave the
> country.
> > If some paperwork was required what was the process and where is the
> > archives at with the information.
> > Thank you once again
> > Joseph Pufahl
> > Saginaw Michigan
> >
> >
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