Albrecht Preusser Genealogy

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	Goto Preusser Genealogy Forum Here is a link to a forum for everybody who is interested in Preusser ancestors. I have contributed some articles, with some remarks about the origin of the name Preusser. It refers to "Prussia", a small country in the Baltic area at the time surnames started to be used. You can click onto the map on the left to see that area marked.
	Stammlinie Preusser Neesbach With the help of other Preusser related people, notably Dr. Hellmuth Gensicke, a retired Archive Director of Hessische Hauptstaatsarchiv in Wiesbaden, I was able to trace our partenal line back to the 15th century in Nassau. Nassau is a region around Limburg at the river Lahn, now in the state of Hesse. The table starts with our great grandfather.
	Distribution of the name Preusser is displayed in the map on the left. It was created by Professor Konrad Kunze from Freiburg University. From the relative distribution shown, and from the maps you can see at Geogen, it seems quite obvious that there are two or three sources of the name Preusser: Nassau and the region near Koblenz at the Rhein on one side, and in Thuringia, near Gera, and Saxony on the other side. Preusser is the 17,603rd most popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.001%; percentile is 76.834 [Source].
	Street names Among the streets named after famous Preussers, there is the Preußergäßchen in Leipzig, which even became part of literature. This name is used since 1552. Read more why it is not far to hell from there. In San Angelo, TX, a street is named after J. Georg Preusser, its first mayor, who was born in Neesbach.
	Example of a descendant list In order to get an impression, of how many people probably are descendants from the early Preussers, view Jean Martin's Homepage, who collects such data. The tree of the "The descendants of Engel Gerhard" starts with the marriage of Engel Gerhard and Magdalena Preusser in 1659 in the village Neesbach. Here is the church book entry of that marriage.
	Other regions The clickable map provides an overview of the main regions I am collecting ancestors from: Nassau, Oberhessen, Rheinhessen and vorderer Odenwald. Another quarter of ancestors are from Pommerania and Silesia. At the moment I am searching most for the ancestors of Carl von Bergen from Hersfeld, born about 1710, and Katharina Köhler, born 18/19. Febr. 1796 somewhere near Alsfeld, Hesse.
Albrecht Preusser, 3/2/2010

Albrecht Preusser Genealogy

Goto Preusser Genealogy Forum
Here is a link to a forum for everybody who is interested in Preusser ancestors. I have contributed some articles, with some remarks about the origin of the name Preusser. It refers to "Prussia", a small country in the Baltic area at the time surnames started to be used. You can click onto the map on the left to see that area marked.

Stammlinie Preusser Neesbach
With the help of other Preusser related people, notably Dr. Hellmuth Gensicke, a retired Archive Director of Hessische Hauptstaatsarchiv in Wiesbaden, I was able to trace our partenal line back to the 15th century in Nassau. Nassau is a region around Limburg at the river Lahn, now in the state of Hesse. The table starts with our great grandfather.

Distribution of the name Preusser
is displayed in the map on the left. It was created by Professor Konrad Kunze from Freiburg University. From the relative distribution shown, and from the maps you can see at Geogen, it seems quite obvious that there are two or three sources of the name Preusser: Nassau and the region near Koblenz at the Rhein on one side, and in Thuringia, near Gera, and Saxony on the other side.

Preusser is the 17,603rd most popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.001%; percentile is 76.834 [Source].

Street names
Among the streets named after famous Preussers, there is the Preußergäßchen in Leipzig, which even became part of literature. This name is used since 1552. Read more why it is not far to hell from there. In San Angelo, TX, a street is named after J. Georg Preusser, its first mayor, who was born in Neesbach.

Example of a descendant list
In order to get an impression, of how many people probably are descendants from the early Preussers, view Jean Martin's Homepage, who collects such data. The tree of the "The descendants of Engel Gerhard" starts with the marriage of Engel Gerhard and Magdalena Preusser in 1659 in the village Neesbach. Here is the church book entry of that marriage.

Other regions
The clickable map provides an overview of the main regions I am collecting ancestors from: Nassau, Oberhessen, Rheinhessen and vorderer Odenwald. Another quarter of ancestors are from Pommerania and Silesia. At the moment I am searching most for the ancestors of Carl von Bergen from Hersfeld, born about 1710, and Katharina Köhler, born 18/19. Febr. 1796 somewhere near Alsfeld, Hesse.

Albrecht Preusser, 3/2/2010