Ruth Geleick was only listed as an emigrant to the USA initially, but the posting here brought Horst Geleick into view as she was his sister.
Further emails and snail mails have brought more details, Ruth had a twin sister Betty Ursula Frederike Geleick who died in 2003 in Berlin and Ruth married in 1963 in Chicago using the English and US custom of taking her husbands name, which explains the difficulty in finding her.
Further information from Horst has given some of his line back to Johann Gottfried Gelaick born 1782 near Königsburg where the other branches of the family come from. The common ancestor has not yet been discovered but one of Horst's ancestors was the godparent of one of ours, so the families at least knew each other and I would be surprised if they were not connected.
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Dear Rhian,
accidentally i found your GELEICK-Blog. One of my gr-gr-gr-gr-grandmothers was Sophia Gelaik, born 1777 in Stombeck (a little fisher-village north-east of Koenigsberg, East-Prussia).
2 years ago i´ve met Horst Geleick in Berlin. So far we could not find the missing link in our files but somehow we are surely related.
I did a lot of resurch in the archives. Maybe an exchange of information can be interesting...
Greetings from Berlin
Viktor
ViktorHaupt@aol.com
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