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tycho
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Jay from Insterburg East Prussia
« on: Wednesday 17 October 07 19:31 BST (UK) »
I have just found out that my grandfather Leopold Jay was born 1n 1871 in Insterburg near Konigsberg in East Prussia (this is now Chernyakovsk near Kaliningrad in Russia. How can I try and trace his family/ancestors there?
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Re: Jay from Insterburg East Prussia
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 17 October 07 20:32 BST (UK) »
There's a mention of the surname Jay on this Pomeranian FH site
http://pomeranianews.com/dv/persons/dv_51.html

and there may be more East Prussia stuff accessible via the Federation of East European Family History Societies http://feefhs.org/

 
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Re: Jay from Insterburg East Prussia
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 21 October 07 18:44 BST (UK) »
Civil registration records have been introduced there only in 1874, thus you have to stick with data from church records. In addition, most of the records in the northern part of East Prussia have been destroyed or brought to the Soviet Union by the red army.
Therefore, you need to know your grandfathers religious confession (catholic/Lutheran?).
Many church records have been transferred to Western Germany after WWI. The evangelic/Lutheran church records are in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin (http://www.ezab.de page in German/English). I do not know exactly where the catholic records are, but some are kept at the Bischöfliches Zentralarchiv in Regensburg, Bavaria.  As far as I know, they don't have an English web site.
Another resource is the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin, they hold most of the records of the state archive in Koenigsberg (http://www.gsta.spk-berlin.de page in German/English).

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Re: Jay from Insterburg East Prussia
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 21 October 07 19:23 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much for your interest and advice. I'm on the trail!

Tycho
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