Surname Gransee

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Krysllyn

Hello, I am hoping for any hints or directions for finding German records for my husbands family, surname Gransee. The emigrated from The Hamburg port to New York, USA in April 1900. I have found many records for them in America, but have not found any German records for births or marriages. I am looking for any help to point me in the right direction to continue my research for German records. Their emigration record listed Rathleben as where they moved from. Other records I have found, they listed Reetz quite often, Arnswalde, and Brandenburg.

Father was Friedrich (possible second name of Karl) Gransee born Apr 1854. Mother Albertine (also Bertha) Adam or Adams, born Oct 1854. Marriage was in 1878. 7 known children were all born before they emigrated, Emma, Anna, Hermann, Minnie (Wilhelmina?), Friedrich, Otto, Wilhelm. Children were born between 1878-1896. Again, because I have no actual birth or marriage records, dates and names could be slightly different. I am basing my information on the information they provided on their passenger list records and the United States Census records. Thank you to anyone who can help me break through the wall I've hit, and direct me to where to possibly find more vital records.
 
Your topic was moved to the specific forum part for Brandenburg.
That's were the regional specialists are active and your chance to get "replies on the point" is way higher than in a really global forum like "Names" where you originally posted your topic.

Kind regards.
 
Rathleben might be Radensleben, Kreis Ruppin. The church books are online here in Archion.

According to the (incomplete) marriage index of Berlin-Brandenburg the Gransee name appears in Soldin (Neumark) which isn't far from Arnswalde: https://trauregister.eu/index.php

I know from other families who moved from the Neumark to Kreis Ruppin and emigrated from there to North America in the 1880's. Unfortunately nearly all church books in Kreis Arnswalde have been destroyed in 1945.

Gransee in the database of Kreis Arnswalde:

Maybe you can determine your family in the church books of Radensleben though I guess that was only a short stop-over.
 
Thank you for your reply. I also think that Radensleben (or Ratlaben?) may not have been a permanent location. I have been tracking what each family member listed as their birthplace, as opposed to last German residence, on various records, and the majority listed Reetz, or Arnswalde as their birthplace, or just used the more general Pommern. Of course, they were filling out those forms many years and decades after living there, so who knows how accurate they really are, either? It is disappointing to hear that the Arnswalde church books were destroyed. I was afraid it would be a situation like that.
 
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