<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Al, <br />may be you can help, since I understood that you are responsible for the location Grodziec in the sggee organisation.<br />I wanted to get light into the ancestors of my grandma born 1889 in a small village in "Kongresspolen" named "Neugrunden" near by Kalisc, but was not successful so far. It's assumed that "Neugrunden" is/was part of Grodziec, since I visited Grodziec last summer and found some links to "Gra;d Stary" and "Gra;d Nowy" which could have been "Altgrunden " and "Neugrunden",<br /> The name of my grandma was Ernestine Gerhard and she must be member of the Lutheran church. She married a person named Jahns and was a farm worker used regularly to come over for working to South Germany near Heidelberg over the summer times. In certain years apparently she also went to Sweden for working. </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">From the tales of my mother I lerned that in the days she lived in Poland (end of the 19. century, beginning of 20. century) it was forbidden to speak German and to go to German schools. So she was educated covertly. </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">When WW I began she was in Germany and could not go back home.<br />So she stayed in South Germany and married again (my grandpa) after her husband died. She herself died in 1960. <br />Have not much infos about relatives or so, whether they stayed in Poland or emigrated lateron?<br /><br />I was told to wrote to </font><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]-->
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Archiwum Panstwowe w Kaliszu to get some documents about her, </span>what I did in summer last year, but did not get any response up to now.<br /><br />Have you or others any further Idea how I can get infos about birth, marriage, parents etc.?<br /><br />Not sure whether I have already addressed this some months ago, if yes please apologise.<br /><br />Best Regards and thanks for your help in advance<br />Joachim Lebedzow<br /> <br /><br /><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> <br /> </font><br/><br/><font style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Postfach fast voll? E-Mail Adresse @t-online.de sichern und endlich Platz für tausende Mails haben.<br/><a href="http://www.t-online.de/email-kostenlos" target="_blank">http://www.t-online.de/email-kostenlos</a></font>