Welcome to the Prussian Family page at Surname Finder, a service of Genealogy Today. Our editors have compiled this checklist of genealogical resources, combining links to commercial databases along with user-contributed information and web sites for the Prussian surname. As additional sources for vital records, original documents, vintage ...

Step 1: Find a Prussian Town of Origin Using US Records. In many cases, the first reference to Prussian ancestry that you see will be from an American record. You might even be happy to see that detail rather than the even more generic “Germany”—until you look at the map and realize how big Prussia had become in the 19th century.

Early Origins of the Prussia family. The surname Prussia was first found in Prussia, where the name emerged in medieval times as one of the notable families of the region Saxony.The name Preuss came from an ancient Baltic tribe of the name Prüsen, a tribe displaced by the German tribes in the 13th century.

Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Archivstr. 12/14, D-14195 Berlin. Prussian military records. German Military Grave Database. Search over 2 million names here from WW1 and WW2. (In German) Mecklenburg Franco-Prussian (1870-71) War Dead Surname Index Links to Surname and Home Town versions of the index.

Welcome! If you are new to Prussian/ German (Polish, Mennonite & Shoah) research or just ‘stumped’ for additional clues and resources, hopefully this page will provide new sources of hope, inspiration, and information.In total, the ‘local’ ManyRoads’ libraries alone contain more than 500GB of original (digital) genealogical and historical source documents.

Lorentine f German (East Prussian, Rare) Feminization of Lorenz influenced by names such as Florentine and Leontine. Lowisa f Finnish (Archaic), Estonian (Archaic), German (East Prussian, Archaic), Dutch (Archaic) Variant of Lovisa and Louise. Loysa …

Answer (1 of 10): They don’t sound Slavic. Prussians were NOT Slavs. Prussians were Balts. Similar to Lithuanians and Latvians. Since the Prussians were conquered by Saxon Germans and assimilated and/or exterminated, they lost their ethnic identity. The name “Prussia” was kept by the Germans. Bu...

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The German Genealogy Group (GGG) Surname List is a compilation of the surnames submitted by members of the GGG. It may be used to contact other members who are interested in the same surnames or geographic regions (directly contacting other members of …

Prussian Submitted Surnames. Surnames.behindthename.com DA: 26 PA: 28 MOZ Rank: 55. Dornbach, meaning "thorny creek" Derived from Old High German Dorn, Turn, or Torn "thorn" and Bach meaning creek; German ancestors of this family eventually came to Pennsylvania in 1725, the name slowly started to change to Turnbach around the 1850's, reasoning unknown, and …