¹⁾ n.i. = no information. Generally, the data had been collected from the Kloestitz church records, and, as far as possible, to sort out inconsistencies, they had been cross-checked with statistics of the settlement areas, if data like that was obtainable, as in the case for South-Prussia. The church records list only heads of the family, ordinarily the father. The wife is listed only in case the father was dead. For this reason the data of this site does not provide an account of the total number of settlers in Kloestitz. They only list the information given by the family heads of the settlers about their date and place of birth in the years and decades after the settlement. Additional Data of individual settlers or settler families, as far as available, is included in my Kloestitz-Database. Since the data listed in the church records is based on the information given by the settlers themselves or their descendants, they don't necessarily provide correct information of the ever changing territorial conditions of their place of birth. But because this kind of information might some day come in handy for anyone who wants to dig deeper in archives, I have tried to find out the real territorial conditions of the place of birth at the time of birth - generally with success. The spelling of place names, provinces and states are altered to their spelling nowadays.

²⁾ Place not found up to now; information about place names from the church records.