I'm wondering about Lindenhof and Nawitz - and whether anyone here is familiar with them.
I have great-grandparents who listed Prussia as where they were born (on ship Bremen, when immigrating). On one search (that I didn't save) I found those two villages(?) listed as "home" for each of them, though I don't know who was from which. I did find those two villages/towns on a map finally - within borders of Poland.
DNA Results list what has to be these two great-grandparents - one as being Finnish and one as Ashkenazi Jewish (Baltic area) - but not which person was which. There are no others in our family history who could fit those slots in the Results - other than: Friedrich Friedrichs and Wilhelmina Quinton.
I thank anyone who has read this.
Nancy Blake Thompson
I believe these are the villages today (they're not close together):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawcz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipowy_Dw%C3%B3r
I can't find either in JewishGen's Town Finder database. They're small places, so that's not terribly surprising. Both areas have had Jewish populations, but my understanding is that the area around Gdansk didn't have a large Jewish community at that point in history, whereas the area around Olsztyn did.
Those surnames are not typically Jewish ones, but people change their surnames all the time - and the connection could well be several generations before them in any case. You may need to locate their birth records and try to find their parent's names to resolve the mystery (might be feasible - Prussian records are available on FamilySearch, in many cases, from that time-frame - although the handwriting is often gruesome).
Well there's nothing about their surnames that would provide an indication of Jewish ancestry.
You'll probably have to do some research in the actual records (hopefully digitized on FamilySearch, but otherwise in the Polish or German archives) to see if their births are listed (often registered in the nearest town, for small villages like these), and then see what their parent's names tell you.