Kuschten, Kreis Meseritz is unique in the 1912 empire, and the family's other rows read 'Kutchen, Province of Posen' and 'Kuschten, Schlasien'. Today Kosieczyn, gmina Zbaszynek - 5 km from Dabrowka Wielkopolska, the tree's Gross Dammer (row 9095), and in the same emigrant cluster that settled Light Pass and Neales Flat in South Australia. The stored pin was the centroid of Germany; a sibling row is pinned on Posen in the Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Thuringia, which is the namesake the geocoder kept finding.
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Kuschten, Meseritz, Posen, Posen, Preussen
Meyers Gazetteer entry 'Kuschten' (Type D. u. Rg., AG Bentschen, StdA Kranz, kath. Pfk. 1, population 670) - the only Kuschten in the 1912 empire. pl.wikipedia 'Kosieczyn' states the Prussian administration introduced the germanised name 'Kuschten' for the village, and gives 52.229444, 15.82.