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Subject: Re: The elusive Griese family
Date: 2 Aug 2002 00:38:19 -0600

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Kevin ~

I was convinced that the Brandenburg Emigration Index entry of 1869 for Karl Freidrick & Louise Griese was your family! Their ages were perfect (Karl wasn't born until November '42 you said, and their entry was made in the summer so he was still the 26 the emigration record said he was). It just took your confirmation that they had a little girl Wilhelmina with them when they travelled to the U.S. And voila!! I'm so thrilled for you! It's great, too, that you now have Louise's correct maiden name (Lehmann), which'll take you places on tracing her further back.

I'm not sure what you're referring to when you ask about "the Neumark, and the Neumarkers." You'll find www.google.com a real help in pulling up good reference material on subjects. I use that search engine ALL the time. I just used it to find out what was going on in Brandenburg (location of your home base of Cranzin/Arnswalde) at the time that Karl Friedrich and Louisa decided to pull up stakes. They left, it turns out, immediately after the 1866 War between Prussia and Austria, in the midst of the dissolution of the German Confederation. A year after they headed to America, the Franco-German War was raging. In 1871, the German Empire was founded with Bismarck as Reich Chancellor.

You'll find some terrific insight into the life and times of historic Brandenburg, Kevin, at the following website: http://www.germanembassy-india.org/news/98apr/gn16.htm

Again, I'm thrilled that I could help you out. Makes my week!!

Best :)
Kathe

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