[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Records for Landsberg Warthe: Jerry Springer

[Paul Rakow]

  Jim,

      On British TV there's a genealogy series that looks into the
  family history of TV people. They recently had a very good programme on
  the TV presenter Jerry Springer, whose father and grandfather ran a
  shoe-shop in Landsberg.

      You might find it interesting, go to

http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/new-stories/jerry-springer/index.shtml

  and follow the link "Find out how we did it",
  or go straight to

http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/new-stories/jerry-springer/how-we-did-it_2.shtml

  for the page about Landsberg. (both addresses should be all one line - they
  might get chopped up in the email).

     The Landsberg page might give you some ideas about what is in
  the Landsberg archives,

          Paul Rakow
          rakow at ifh.de

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Stange <jjstange at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Records for Landsberg Warthe
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am having difficulty in finding a birth record for my Great-
>> Grandmother,Elizabeth Conrad.? We have her birth recorded
>> as October 12, 1895 in
>> "Germany."? The date is on several death announcements etc.
>> from when she
>> passed in 1968.? The family had an old map of Germany with
>> Landsberg Warthe
>> (Gorz?w Wielkopolski) circled and it has been verbally passed
>> down that this
>> is the town where she was born.? Several census reports
>> show Germany as
>> their birthplace, although one census has Posen crossed out and
>> Germanywritten in...? Another clue is that her name and her
>> parents, Anna and Emil
>> Conrad, appear in an address book for 1913 for Landsberg
>> although Anna and
>> Elizabeth emmigrated in June 1913.
>>
>> When I queried the Polish archives for the area to look up
>> information on
>> this family with the birth date provided, they found
>> nothing!? I do not know
>> which parish they belonged to in Landsberg but I assume they
>> were all
>> referenced in the archive's search?? The Ellis Island web
>> site does not link
>> properly to the original ship manifest so I am unable to check
>> that source
>> for reference to a town name and I do not have a subscription to
>> ancestry.com at the moment to pull down the immigration
>> record.? Is it
>> possible that these Lutheran records for Landsberg are not at
>> the Polish
>> state archives?? The only other reason I could think of is
>> that the family
>> moved into Landsberg between 1896 and 1900 and the record
>> resides in another
>> archive.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas how I may be able to trace Elizabeth
>> Conrad and
>> her family?? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>
>> Jim Stange
>>