[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Eastprussia and Memelland [old: Need some ..]

[Gerhard König]

Hello Daniel,

> USSATIS .. The name would originate out of Lithuania

Yes this is a typical surname from Latvia in the old region
of Memelland. The former name was USSAT and the name of the 
sons or daughters was written with a genitiv .. for example:
Christian (the son of) USSAT(IS) or .. ULLOSAIT(IS).

You can write for example to:
Ingo Paul - ingopaul24 at hotmail.com
Beate Szillis-Kappelhoff - kappelhoff.salzbergen at t-online.de
(Beate is the listowner of the memellandlist)

> We have everybody traced back 7 generations to ..

It can be, that you are know this lists .. if no, you can use this:

You can subcribe to East-West-Prussia-List (OW-Preussen-Liste):
http://list.genealogy.net/mailman/listinfo/ow-preussen-l

or if you have a mailadress of yahoo.com .. you can
subcribe to the Memelland-List:
http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/memelland

Some links of the region Memelland in German and English:
http://www.memelerdampfboot.de
http://www.memelland-adm.de/
http://www.memelland-adm.de/landkreismemel.html
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/memel/memel1.html
http://people.freenet.de/hankandas/memel98/index.html
http://www.bork-online.de/memel/start.htm
http://520032226556.bei.t-online.de/html/karte_memelland.html
http://teutonic.tripod.com/memel/index.htm
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~lauze/memelland.htm
http://www.castlesofpoland.com/prusy/klaj_poczt_de.htm
http://worldatwar.net/nations/other/memel/
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/hada1.htm
http://jahrbuch.annaberg.de/vareikis.html
http://jahrbuch.annaberg.de/arbusauskaite.html
http://www.memel-bild.de/

Gerhard