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Comment by Juan Balderas on August 24, 2009 at 11:40am

Liebe Vettern,

Glad I found ya! I'm doing research in 1875 and previous, in and around Hamburg, Altona, und surrounding, then radiating outward...

Earliest Vorfahren/ancestors identified are
o Johann Heinrich Zeiss or Zeisz or Zeiß (1775) PID K8WH-J9H
o Christiana Catharina Elsabe Behr (1780) PID K866-1X9
o Johann Hinrich Schröder or Schroeder (1794) PID K48F-L66
o Johanna Maria Hinrica Meldau (1796) PID K4TX-MZG

Please advise if you see opportunities for Zusammenarbeit/collaboration, let me know. Viel dank!

Juan B7)
aka Johan B7)

PS I do okay reading and transcribing Deutsch.

Comment by Susan Turner on August 19, 2009 at 5:43am

Really like the new graphic!

Comment by Marie Greyvenstein on August 19, 2009 at 1:36am

Hi, I'm researching my husband's ancestors , I am actually finished but lack photo's and documentation as I am going to publish it in book form . The progenitor of the Greyvenstein family was Johann Jacob Greifenstein born 20 March 1726 in Klein-Umstadt,Hesse,Germany . Can anyone help me with info of where I can get photo's or documentation of him . Any help would be appreciated . Thank you .

Comment by Earl Reemt Duthler on August 18, 2009 at 8:15am

The group graphic is a good one, Debbie. My main research in Germany is my mother's side: Masselink and Masseling. Traced them back to 1660, with a lot of help from a great genealogy site: http://www.online-ofb.de/ They put much of the archives online here in an easy to read format.

For those who can't make out the German language, try Google translate, either from their toolbar or the Firefox FoxLingo toolbar.

What I'm looking for is any data from the Huguenots who settled mainly along the Germand/Dutch border, and from where both sides of my family came, I'm pretty sure. Once in Germany or Holland, they can be tracked usually. But before then ???

Comment by Dale E Drexler on August 17, 2009 at 4:24pm

Researching Drexler family name - Farther - Roland J. Drexler, Grandfather - James Drexler, Great Grandfater - Anton Drexler

Comment by Joe D. Bardin on August 12, 2009 at 4:38pm

Looking for the Jow family (anglicized to Yow in America). Hans Jow and at least two sons emigrated from the Palitinate via Philly on 9-30-1727 on the English ship Molly. No tracings in Germany yet but believe Hans was born about 1651 and his father was Friedrich. There is a Yow site on Ancestry.com with some of the descendants, mostly via Bladen Co NC, but I am always looking for more cousins, and trying to find Hans' birthplace and ancestors. The Palitinate is a lot of places.

Comment by Allysa Carberry on August 12, 2009 at 1:25pm

How do you find out about a deserter. My Great grandfather was on the SS Bussard and he jumped ship while it was here in New Zealand? I want to find out something that actually tells me about the desertion and what he used to do on the ship etc....

Comment by Shawn Collins on August 10, 2009 at 8:20pm

He actually remained at the orphanage until he was an adult and stayed on as a worker after he was grown. He later went onto being in the 5th Ga. Infantry, and was decorated, then captured at chickamgua tn. He's an open book from the moment he showed up at the orphanage...it's the earlier part that eludes me. As an odd side note...100 years later, I have another ancestor who became a monsignor in the same diocese, and actually worked at the same orphanage, and never knew. Stephen Frank, was Prussian...that's all i really know about his early life. Lol. Finding him in Prussia has ben a nightmare, because the country was divided and split among three nations, so every hunt I've been on, has been done three times over, and believe me...Stephen Frank...is about he equivelant of joe smith...lol.

Comment by louise duncalf on August 10, 2009 at 6:57pm

if you believe an ancestor you thought was from germany and find put it was prussia is this the right group?

Comment by Cheryl W. Terry on August 10, 2009 at 11:59am

Shawn,

Your dilemma is quite unique. I have a few ideas that might help. First, I would check the Georgia Archives and the Georgia Virtual Vault to see if there is anything there under the NEW name. Also, check the pauper records. Possibly since he was in an orphanage, he might have gotten money. Then, there are the Georgia Land lotteries. The original applications are supposed to be on file at the Archives, maybe he applied for a lottery and they asked him his original name.

I would also ask for copies of the original records of the orphanage. Sometimes the transcripts are not complete. Maybe at one point, after he learned to speak a little English, they asked him his original name, or possibly the part of Prussia that his family came from.

Another thing I have found is that family will give you stuff in dribs and drabs. I would contact every member of the family and post this on the forum sites in the hopes that someone has kept a family Bible or has copies of an older family Bible that might tell something.

Another thing to check is to find out which families were removed just before he showed up at the orphanage. I know there will be quite a few, but one of them has to be yours.

Wish I could help more. But, maybe something here will help. Keep us posted as this one is unusual.

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