Select the link to see:

http://www.rootsandrecombinantdna.com/2017/01/new-23andme-ancestry-timeline-tool.html?utm_content=buffer38221&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&m=1

http://mashable.com/2016/11/26/german-internees-in-north-carolina/

Below is a picture that a Distant Cousin on my mother’s side of family (my grandma Maas[nee Ameila Podrasky] mother’s [Podrasky /nee Noah] grandparents the Knirsch family). This would be 6 generations back from me. Picture is in Blue Island, Illinois circa 1860s to 1880s

The German portal called Archion has the following:

Church records
recorded baptisms, weddings, funerals and confirmations. They are thus the most important source for family research and ancestry research and the most frequently used sources in ecclesiastical archives.

Archion
Church records are at the center of Archion. The portal allows you to search for your ancestors in original sources: from the comfort of your home – worldwide

The basic idea
Archion is a joint project of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the majority of Protestant churches. Archion is also open to state, municipal and other ecclesiastical archives. The basic idea behind Archion is simple. The participating archives digitize their historical sources and present them via a common portal to provide you with as much comfort as possible in family research and ancestry research.

16 million church book pages
allow you to find your ancestors. The offer is steadily expanded, expanded and extended – every day, digitalized church books from all over Germany as well as the formerly German eastern territories are added.

Source: Archion website, January 3, 2017 search

In doing more research on my family and the ship they left on, I find in the Hamburg Passenger list of departure April 25, 1865, 266 passengers from the province of Prussia. All destinations were to Quebec City, Canada port.

Ship was a sail and not powered by steam.

More as I continue my research on this passenger list.

Hi

I do hope your new year -2017- is a wonderful one.

I also wish to thank all those who came to visit my website this year. Next year will be fun with new stuff added and other tools I hope will help fellow researchers of family history.

Thanks Bob

Gross Boschpul in the former Prussia (German) or Pomerania area of Northern Poland is now Bozepole Wielkie, Poland, since the end of World War II. My paternal surname left this former part of German Pomerania in the year 1865. The river that goes nearby is called Leba. Here is a little information on the river and the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81eba_(river)

​Recently someone who does family history asked, ” why we continue to do it when others (in family) show no interest?” My Response: We do this for ourselves first I believe. If others show interest all the better but it should not be expected or be the reason we do family history research. It is a passion or need for those who do it, so I do understand your frustrations (as I faced that in the past). Now I do it to learn and the discovery. Also a community of others doing the same passion  makes it better. So keep your passion going and share with us, fellow researchers. Great question.

​Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah