To Kathleen Ingram: As you probably know, Alsace region was either German or French, depending on who won the last war. My great grandfather Brodt is listed as German & French depending on the census, his daughter & son as French. They were from Volksberg in Alsace region.

I think I descend from Peter Reinbold born abt 1619 in Germany, his son Elias who married Clara Spitzel and his son Mattheus born about 1664 who married Anna Eva Mullier Buckel, which I think was his second wife, as he was 46 years old when they came to US on the James & Elizabeth in 1710. I saw his name spelled Reinbolt in some places. He came with wife and 2 children over 10. One was his stepson Baltasar Buckel which was changed to Pickel.I do not know the name of the second child and how one of his sons got to North Carolina where his grandson was born, Joseph Rainbolt.

My main German surnames are GENTZEN and KRIESTEN. Both belong to my maternal side. Gentzen being her maiden name and Kriesten being the maiden name of my great-great grandmother. The Gentzens came from Prussia in the 1860s as they were in Chicago by the 1870 census. The Kriestens came in 1883. Edward Anthony D. Gentzen married Clara Telka Kriesten 30 Sep 1893 in Chicago.

I am researching Erckenbrecht (Alkenbrack) and Baumann (Bowman)
from New York (Onondaga County & Herkimer County) Eve Alkenbrack b 1782, Harvey Bowman b 1825. I would like to know where in Germany my people are from. Jakki

Kathleen:
My ancestors from Alsace were Catholic. Photos from cemeteries have headstones in German and French. The cousin I communicate with there is French, speaks French. A lot of the ancestors on his side of the family were German speaking. So it gets very confusing!
I found my Brodts, others I have never found and yet we are pretty sure they didn't swim.........just beamed over by the mother ship I guess!
On the census, my ggrandmother listed as French, her parents listed as German, that is why I checked the Alsace area.

I'm looking for genealogy info on my "Hess" and "Rausch" ancestors from Germany. My GGGrandmother was born in Grand Dutchy, Hessen, Germany

I too have german running through my family right back to this famous person Johann Adolf Hasse and soprano Faustina Bordoni and beyond and has just celebrated his 300th birthday and his castle still stands today, so I am a very lucky person to be related to him via my mothers tree.
The other people that I mixed up with through my grand mother are the "Aufderheide's"of Sth Australia. that is a different story trying to find all of that family, but you never know there just maybe that one or two persons out there who have that little bit more info that you need .

Wayne

My German Surnames are: Borneman, Kruse, Pannebakker, Pennebaker, Pfannebecker, Ruby, Seidensticker, Seitz, Sellen and Wasson.
My Great Grandfather was Frederick Seidensticker(1867) from Hanover, Germany. I have been trying got 5 years to find other Seidenstickers, and met one family online, but we couldn't prove a connection. My Great Grandmother, Terese Kruse(1866) immgrated to USA from Germany in 1889.
I don't have any living Family members left to help me with research, and I am intimidated when trying to research online. Any suggestions would be most welcomed!

My German surnames are Diefenbach,Stein,Wern,and Schneider.

I also have Schneider's from Stuttgart who resided in Pennsylvania

My German ancestors are BAUDERMANN from Klepsau, Krautheim, Baden arrived in US through Castle Garden June 2 1852, settled in Newark, NJ. HEMMER from Wurttemburg arrived in US through Castle Garden June 2, 1852, settled in Newark, NJ.

Looking for Kruse and Dahms

I am trying to figure out the town name that is my great great grandfather's birthplace. It is written on his marriage record in New York. It looks like the word Schweigerschrot in Sachsen-Meinengen. On Census records, his father claimed to be from Sachsen-Coburg, Thuringen. Can anyone take a guess where my gr-gr grandfather was born? I can't find it on any map. Similar looking names but not Schweigerschrot.

There is a Schwaiger in Munich, Germany, perhaps it is a part of that area.

Our Germans came through Pennsylvania: Schnell or Snell; Stuntz; and Ebersole near the Swiss border.

On another surname the Highmiller's came from Germany. Also spelled Himiller or Heinmueller

Hmmmm...thanks Linda...I wonder if 'schrot' means town or something like that and isn't actually part of the name...hmmmm.

I am interested in families that immigrated to Wisconsin from Mecklenburg, Germany in the mid 1800s. My family names are Thede, Peters, Schroeder, Piehl.

I am looking for info on Gabriel Goldsmith from the Dresden Germany area.
He was father to Albert Goldsmith, Rosa goldsmith.

Gail

Anyone researching BOWER, BAUER, FAUST, HAAS?

Anyone researching WECKENMANN (all spellings), MERTENS, MERZENICH, WERZ, FRIDERICH, FRIEDERICH, HARTMANN, BINDER, KNOBEL, STAIGER, and/or HAUG from what is today southern Germany, all of Catholic faith. The Weckenmanns were from the Black Forest region; Mertenses and Merzeniches from near Cologne and Koblenz.

Is anyone else researching GORING/GOHRING/GERING/GEHRING? Ernest Gohring/Goring immigrated to the US around 1865...possibly New Jersey area. Married Margaret Jacobs (possibly a Mohawk Indian) in Brooklyn, NY. Children: Charles, Kate, Louisa and Frederica. Margaret dies sometime after 1880 Census.

I'm looking for the Flick family, August Herman. {my grandpa} He was born in Prussia in 1870, place unknown, came to America, when unknow, on a unknown ship, and became a citizen in 1896 in Pittsburgh, Pa. He married Anna Jane Forsythe and came to California in 1930 and passed away there. I have his death cert. and all the census say born in Germany. I don't know of any relatives he had in Pennsylvania. My parents and his children have all died and I would like some info on him if anyone has some. THANKS !

Looking for information on 18th century German migration. Family names include Harbaugh, Kraft, Eschmann, Buncher (Bonchur), Berger, Mueller, and Kahly (Kahley). I think they may have come mostly throught PA. If you have any info, I'd love to hear from you!

Jacob Rudloph born C: 1705 and wife Regula with family to Halifax, NS, Canada on the Ann in 1750 from Zulach or Baden Zurlach. Was this Germany?
Conrad Vosseller born 1729 to Halifax, NS Canada on the Sally 1752 from Wurtemburg, Germany [ In Canada was called Foseler/Fauzler]
Peter Wampfler/Wampler born 1701 also family and son Michael born 1724 to Pa. on Lydia, 1741. Looking for indormation of parents.
Ludwig/Lewis Abel may have been German born 1752 from Pa. to Montgomery Co., Va. and Wythe Co., Va. member of Rith [Reed] Creek Lutheran Church , Wythe Co. Did his ancestors come from Wurtemburg, Germany?

I received the email below and can not find the post now. I possibly have a resource for Joyce but cant find her to respond. Joyce if you see this contact me.
Frances
A message from Joyce O'Neill to all members of Germany and German Ancestry on Genealogy Wise!

G-G grandfather, Wilhelm KLINGNER was born on 27 Mar 1827 in Limbach, Sachsen, Hanover, Germany. He emigrated to New York City on 28 Sep 1854 with his wife Augusta (nee Demler?) and landed 1 Aug 1854. I have tracked him until his death on 1 Mar 1908. But, I have not been able to find birth or marriage record. Also, there seems to be several places now named Limbach.
Other surnames researching are RUHL, WAGNER and SCHMIDT but do not know where in Germany. They also came to New York City in the 1850"s and settled there in the Bronx.

If you click on the "view all" under the members' photos (right next this box where you type) you can type in her name and find her. I did that already .. I can forward what you said to her (-:

These are following places I am researching:

Neckargartach
Grossgartach
Heilbronn
Heuchelheim
Montabaur
Greuthof
Löwenstein
Cleebronn
Unteröwisheim
Oberöwisheim
Untereisesheim

Most of the lines I go back to 1600's

The only one I am having problem are the Helbig which they came from Kleinlauersitz (which is the German town name) and it is now in Poland under another name.

I am interested in the history of town and life style of people who lived in Grossgartach, Neckargartach, Gruethof, Montabaur and many other places.. I am familiar with Wiki so that help a little there... Any suggestions....

Debbe I have visited this site for Grossgartach, http://www.comp-archaeology.org/Grossgartach.htm it has alot on their culture.

Researching WAX, KLOTZ, SCHWARZ, SCHILLING, RINGLER in Tuttlingen area of B-W. I will be visiting Germany in two weeks. Am interested in making contact with others familiar with the area or with interest in same names. I am also researching OVERWATER who may have emigrated to US from Oldenberg in mid-19th X. Also looking for Barbara, Mary, and Jacob Morgenstern, siblings who left Bayern for US about 1845 and located in Illinois.

I am researching the following surnames from Germany: HAMMER, GERBER, MADLUNG in the Wuettenburg area and also Bremen. My ancestors came here in the early 1850s but other than that I am at a loss. My ggrandfather's name is Frederick Hammer.

I'm researching the surnames of ROMBACH and LULLEY (or LULY/LULEY) from Baden. They settled in Allegheny County/ Pittsburgh, PA, probably in the 1840's. Any info would be much appreciated!

I'm looking for the surname of Schmadeke from Hannover, Germany. Has anyone come across that name? And also Grosskopf from possibly the same area.

I'm looking for the surname Wohlfart from Schaftesheim,Germany. Settled in Indiana about the 1850's.

I'm researching the surname Sickerman in Westpahlia around or in Bielefeld. Also, the name Ricker in Germany, no specific location. These names have eluded my efforts. Any help is appreciated.

I'm looking for Krispin/Crispin family members. Wenzel and Maria Konrad Krispin lived in Moravia (now Brno, Czech Republic) and Wenzel was apparently an overseer for a mill there (Von Dittler's Mill?) They came to the US around 1892 with their children and I have a lot of info about them once they arrived, but don't know their parents, etc. Wenzel was born in Germany but we don't know where.

Looking for anyone with Addleman ancestry. Am a descendent of Hans Addleman

Researching STEINMETZ and BUSCH from the Eschwege & Waldkappel areas of Hesse and also MANN from Austria-Hungary (Bohemian Germans)

I am searching for James Frantz, Mary Fenton they were born in Mecklinburg, Germany about 1825. I do not no when they came to the United States? Their actual birthdates?

Has anyone researched vital records (late 1870s-1880s) from "Tilpzig, Prussia" or "Tilsik, Germany" ? Tilpzig and Tilsik appear to be variant spellings of the same location (according to records I have). I have not yet concluded this location to be the same as "Tilsit, Germany (now Sovetsk, Russia)," but it might be.

Can anyone help with records in Hanover from about 1895?? My grandfather was German,left home about 1914 and never went back.

Anyone know how to get records for Windberg, Bavaria? I have roots there and also PA German (towns so far as Oberfranken, Kaldenkirchen & Crefeld/Krefeld). Anyone have roots in these towns?

Let me know if you find anyway to get that information. I too have roots in Germany as well.

Please cancel my membership as this is just too difficult for me to fool with and too slow.

I have used the Archives of the Diocese in Wurzburg for information and they are very helpful. BUT, you have to do your homework in the states, first. If you give them good information, they can identify your family. Then they will send whatever copies they have. It is not cheap, but reasonable for what they sent. I was glad to do it.

I have a line that came from CREFELD. It is Christian Allebach who immigrated to Philadelphia. Supposedly he is the progenitor of the Allebach's in Pennsylvania. I am trying to determine the parentage for certain of John Allebach b. 20 Sept 1756 d. 1822 in Monroe County, PA. He is supposedly the son of Peter 1730 - 26 March 1783 and his wife, Elizabeth Landes, who d. 2 May 1765. Peter is the son of Christian Allebach.

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp

Use this to see if the LDS has films for your ancestor's town.. You can order these films from the local Family History Center. You do need to learn to read German handwriting...

There adding new German records at this web site -

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#r=-1;p=allCollections

Good Luck...

Do all your HOMEWORK in USA first.... I had one client who ancestor came from Heidelberg.. I ordered several films from that big city of Heidelberg. I found NOTHING on the films... Come to FIND out that there are 5 Heidelberg in GERMANY!!!! I was barking the wrong tree... So be careful...

There are several books that can help you improve your reading German handwriting....

1. If I can - you can - Decipher Germanic records by Edna Bentz
2. German - English Genealogical dictionary by E. Thode
3. Deciphering Handwriting in German Documents by Roger Minert

I hope this all HELPS....

Can anyone translate this word for me? IGAZOLVANY Thanks

I am looking for information concerning the surname Furcht from Hannover Germany. My gggrandfather imigrated to the United States in 1846. The first reference I found is he was a Coal Miner in Luzerne Co PA, further checking I found where the mines brought in Jewish Immigrates to work the mines. I do not know if he was Jewish nor exactly where he was born other than Hannover. I have contacted the Archives in Niedersachsen who checked immigration records but did not find him. They did provide me with a name and address of a professional researcher there that I could hire. If anyone is in need of this information let me know