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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 657886, member: 39&quot;]Unfortunately for you, Schmidt/Schmitt is a pretty common name in Germany. The variety with the two Ts at the end occurs less frequently than the -dt variety. Try entering &quot;Schmitt&quot; here <a href="http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/v3/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/v3/" rel="nofollow">http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/v3/</a> and click on &quot;Kartieren&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>You should get about 41,000 records for Germany (based on phone book listings), and you can then click on &quot;Relative Darstellung&quot; (map of German counties with number of <i>Schmitt</i> records per million inhabitants), &quot;Absolute Karte&quot; (similar but based on absolute figures), &quot;Statistik sortiert nach Bundesländern&quot; (charts by state). That should give you a vague idea of where the family may be from.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prussia was a big country (and then German state) but was dissolved after WW2. Don&#039;t think there are any plans to revive it; the states that until 1945 were occupied/controlled by Prussia certainly would not want that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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