Familienforschung, Ahnenforschung, Ostpreussen, Nordostpreussen, Tharau, Pr. Eylau, Königsberg Land, Mahnsfeld, Geschichte, Einwohner, Chronik, Forum, Roots, Genealogy, Kirchenbücher, Thiel, Matz, Bass, Schardt, Vladimirovo, Bagratinowsk, Ännchen
"Macaitis, Matz, Matzat, Matzkeit, Matzek, Matzies, Matzke, Matzki, Matschki, Matzner: Podehl '4444 Namen...' reduced these names from the old prussian word 'mazz' meaning 'little/not much'. The 'mazzika' is the man who has only little possession."
Beate Szillis-Kappelhoff, Salzbergen, Germany