I've hit a dead end with family members with the last names Montgomery and Anderson who were supposedly born in Springborn, Heilsberg, East Prussia, Germany around 1829.
These last names sound more "English" than "German" do you think I'm on the wrong track looking in East Prussian records? (We always thought this side of the family came from Ireland) I've tried using Ancestry.com and Family Search but haven't been able to find records of my ancestors in either the East Prussian or Irish records. Their daughter was the first to immigrate to the US so searching US records is a dead end.