Family names appearing where expected in 1722
Looking through the Polish Archives over the last week exposed a couple of interesting documents. In summary they detail tax…
Category: Prussia
Research Progress
Our Earliest Story (prepared in 2021) I have gone back about as far as I can with the sources that…
Mystery Hoffmann
As we know, a number of the children of Samuel and Maria Rosina (nee Hayn) Hoffmann emigrated to South Australia in…
Silesian Porcelain
Midway between Breslau and Liegnitz in 1843 when the rail line from Breslau to Freiburg met the line from Schweidnitz…
Derevation of surnames
Interesting article on the surnames of our Jewish counterparts. from http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0807/names.php3 What’s in a name? by Estee Rieder Once, long ago, there…