Genealogy / Need help with family history/surnames: Netzel, Petke, Gruzlewski [24]

Try to find out the confession of these people.
Then try to contact the church in this town...with luck the old "Kirchenbücher" are still existent. Every birth, marriage, and death of the members is there noted.

Later the Rathaus overtook much of that duties.

There are lists online where genealogists gather. Many are specialized
for several territories and towns. There you can find support and even help
for translation...

Good luck!

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Yeah...like Kopernikus...doesn't matter if the family is german/austrian...if their native language is german...who cares....the borders changed (even much later) that means those are now full blooded Poles even if they don't speak one word polish or have any relation to Poland who gives a f*ck...yeah sure!

If you ask Billy Wilder do you reall think he would had seen himself as a Pole???

Do you have an idea how pathetic you sound...needing to resort to "people grabbing" because you lack your own???

Bye

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Billy Wilder polish??? Yup....you are mad!

usa.usembassy.de/etexts/ga-tricentennialreport.htm

"... From music have come - beside the piano- and organ-makers, Steinway, Knabe, and Wurlitzer -- Leopold and Walter Damrosch, Bruno Walter, John Philip Sousa, Oscar Hammerstein, Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg, and Kurt Weill. And from the theatre a succession of gifted playwrights, directors and performers, among them Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Lubitsch, Eric von Stroheim, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, and the inimitable Marlene Dietrich...."

The source is the US themselves...and yours is???

Now for that....:)


But I thought people born in other countries don't count???

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*waves to his girl* :)

Ahem...*puts on teachers hat*....

Also....a winemaker (vintner) named Johann Valentin Pressler came 1710 to New York from Niederhochstadt in the southern Palatine (till today there are living lot's of Presslers). This village is today called Hochstadt...the same like the village in Pennsylvania which the Pressler-Clan founded new.

A later Pressler, who took part in the battle at Gettysburg changed the name to "Presley"...

*throws away teachers hat and bows*

serve.com/shea/germusa/germusa.htm

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I really don't know if people born in other countries should count too...

If yes we Germans wouldn't even know where to start...alone in the US 1/4 of the people have german heritage (also the scientists, artists, musicians etc.)....and not only in the US.

"Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall, William Boeing, Sandra Bullock, Walter P. Chrysler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kirsten Dunst, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Armstrong Custer, Babe Ruth, Clark Gable, Milton Hershey, Charles M. Schulz ("Peanuts"), Joseph Pulitzer, John Steinbeck, Chester W. Nimitz, F.W. von Steuben, Elvis Presley, Heinrich Steinway, John D. Rockefeller, Levi Strauss, John Studebaker, Herbert Hoover, Henry Kissinger, Jerry Springer, Ruth Westheimer, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Billy Wilder, Bruce Willis, Johnny Weissmuller and, and, and...."

We should therefore confine it to the fatherlands I think....

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Family Kopernigg belonged to the privileged citizenship of the Hansetown Thorn and lived there in the St. Annen alley.
The father was a rich government clerk (prussian)
His uncle was Lukas Watzenrode the younger, the prince-bishop from Ermland.

It's a german family from Prussia...and they spoke and wrote German!

Kopernikus not only was an astronomer but doctor too and he worked also for the government. He reformed together with the Hochmeister of the german Order Albrecht von Hohenzollern the prussian coinage.

Kopernikus penned his scientific works in latin and german but not polish!

His friends were the Bishop Tiedemann, Nikolaus Cardinal von Schönberg and Johannes Dantiscus von Höfen.

PS: Maybe you should read some more books?

PPS: Am I a Nazi prick because I have another opinion?

PPPS: Here is lot's of info about Kopernikus...oops it's not in english.....doesn't count?

You are not an advertising for canuck schools!

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They always say: Kopernikus!

Even as he was from a german family (his real name was: Nikolas Koppernigk), was born in Thorn which was till few years before still prussian, lived and worked in Frauenburg and spoke and wrote german...noooooooooo he is now polish (say Poles)....