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Comment by Earline Hines Bradt on July 8, 2009 at 7:54pm: I am researching Steinseifer from Westfaln, Germany to PA in 1749. Shaver and Haines immigrated from Germany to Johnstown, Tryon Co., NY about 1750's, UE Loyalists.

Comment by Susan Turner on July 8, 2009 at 6:43pm: Also researching
Puschmann & Schubert from Breslau, Schlesien area of Germany/Poland.
Albrecht from Stadtilm, Thuringa area

Comment by Amanda Elizabeth Acquard on July 8, 2009 at 6:09pm: The German names I am searching are:
Crosshein
Eichhorn/Eichorn/Eckorn
Fink/Finck
Gress/Gresz
Tross
Weiss/Wise

Comment by Jean Wilcox Hibben on July 8, 2009 at 5:37pm: I have a few German names I'm researching: ARGUS (Ger)
BAADER
BECKER
BESSERER
BOTT
BRAUN
CLASSEN
COUNTRYMAN/GUNDREMAN
CREMERIUS
CHRUST/CRUST
FLAUMIN
GRIEFFS
GUIWITS/(K)GEYWITZ
HABERMAN
HEINRICH
HERBERGER
HOLLA(E)NDER
HOMBERG
K(A)EMPF
KETTERER
KLENCHER
KNOETGEN
KOHR
KRIEGER
MANZ
MAR(C)KFELD
MATERAS
MEN(T)Z
MOHR
MUELLER (2 lines)
PAETZGEN
PLATZ
SCHALL/SHAUL
SCHULDNER
SCHURZ
SIMON
STIRNER
THENEE
THONNESSEN/TOENNESEN
TRAP(P)SCHUH
TREFZ
UEBELE
WEIS(S)ER
WOLBERT
YOUKER/JUCKER (?)

Comment by Susan Turner on July 8, 2009 at 5:17pm: I am researching Richter/Kuchler from Sohland area. Also Macy, presume they came from Britain to Germany, then on to USA in PA/NY/OH areas.

Comment by Joan Foster on July 8, 2009 at 4:35pm: Thanks for your suggestion, Casidy.
No, I haven't. Not that sure where he was born. Some material suggests Evansville, which is in Vanderburgh Co.; some suggests Randolph Co. Not near each other. That was my next step: to try to resolve where in Indiana. Church records are great suggestion if I can tie him down better, or if they just suggest family movement after his birth.

Comment by Casidy Andersen on July 8, 2009 at 3:03pm: Joan,
Have you tried looking to see if there are any church records you might be able to search?

Comment by Jilaine Hock on July 8, 2009 at 2:32pm: Hello, I am looking for the Burg Family from Koblenz, Rhineland area.

Comment by Leslie Mehana on July 8, 2009 at 1:36pm: I first meet Louisa Klinefelter in Pittsburgh on 6 Aug 1857 when she marries Henry Tirrell (also Tirril), a stone cutter (think those glorious funerary statues). She was the daughter of the sternwheeler captain mentioned in Mark Twain's memoir about his brother's death.
She was born 7 May 1839 in Pittsburgh and died 26 Sept 1878, one year and one month after the passing of her husband, in Bunker Hill, Macoupin, IL. They are both buried in a family plot in the cemetery there.

Comment by Joan Foster on July 8, 2009 at 11:52am: I am looking for just one line. HOLZGRAFE anywhere. Ferdinand b. 1854 in Indiana; various census records, etc. say parents b. Germany or Prussia. I don't really know where to turn as uncertain who his parents were. Any advice welcomed.