Hello,
I am researching a Brettschneider family. One of their ancestors is Fridrich( Frederick) Wilhelm Reinhold BRETTSCHNEIDER, who is said to be born about 1838 and from Damgarten, Pomerania, Prussia.

Parents are John/Johann BRETTSCHNEIDER and Johanna CASS/KASS.
Could anyone tell me about how to find his birth record?
Or have an address for the/a church in the Ribnitz-Damgarten area?

Any information would be most helpful and appreciated.

Hi Sarah
Can you share with me what you have found. We are trying to trace the same one, So please send back to me privately. at emailslade@austarnet.com.au I hope you have had better luck than I have.
Raylene

Hi, Sarah, I am back on line. How have you been going with the Brettschneider info? any luck at all?
Raylene

I don't know how helpful this will be, but...
Some years ago my mother was researching ancestors in Bavaria, and another researcher suggested she send to the local records office (Standesamt, in German) saying what info she was seeking, enclose a $5 or $10 bill, noting that she was enclosing this to cover copying costs, etc., -- and she received several pages of information, including brothers who had stayed in Germany when ours emigrated, and descendents of theirs who were working on genealogy. She was able to correspond with them, and later visited.
I'm not sure about Prussia/Pomerania, but it might be worth a try?

Dear Raylene,

I am (as I am sure you are too) a direct descendent from Frederick Wilhem Reinhold Brettschneider. He is my greatgrandfather: my grandfather was his son, Otto Herbert (married to Amy McPherson) and my father was Jeffrey Noel Brettschneider. We must be distantly related.

Shirley