Hi Group, I'm asking for your help in finding out more about my Great Grandmother, Angeline Heeren. I believe she was born in Iowa about March 1856 and died 1937 in Adams Co., Iowa. She married Cornelius Rah (1857-1930) 19 Aug 1876 in Rock Island, Il. What I can't find is her parents. I know they came to America from Germany. I just don't know what their names are or when they came. Do you have a Heeren in your family????

I'm here in search of my Morse/Moers ancestors (West Prussia) and my Fine/Fein ancestors.

I have traced my ancestry back to 1675. Johann Heinrich Erdle born in Triebes, Thuringen, Germany. I am looking for earlier ancestors. Name became Artley in the late 1700's in Pennsylvania.

I am looking for information regarding Jacob Rosenberg who died in Ohio in 1811.

I am looking for info on Henry Rickle (Rickli, Rickly) born 1836 in Switerland?, Died 4 May 1883 in New City, NY (Clarkstown). Married to Eva Katherin Fetig. I've been trying to link him back to Europe. My confusion stems from one Census listing him as Swiss and another as German. I believe Eva was from Barvaria but I'm not sure if they married before or after coming to the US. I don't have ready access to resources in NY so before I start sending checks out for a wild goose chase I'm trying to post up to different sites.

Thank you so much Michael Boscarato! This is great....I'm looking right this minute....I know I've got relatives in Mettmann Germany and have asked a cousin (several times) for information about my German relatives but as of yet, they haven't replied..

This is very kind of you...thank you once again.
Ursula

I am looking for information on my husband's family line. Engel, Gaffke, Hermann and Fuhrman all from Prussia. Immigrated to the United States in about the 1870's-1880's all settled in Huron County Michigan primarily Port Hope located in the upper part of the thumb.

Pam,
Thanks, I will try it later tonight. Ugh. Just caught my typo in Switzerland.

My grandmother was sent at age 14 to the US to make her own way. I suspect she was signed by her parents to a domestic service contract. Does anyone have a line on companies, societies or groups that arranged such deals? Grandmother Emma Stumpe n. Sickerman hailed from Bielefeld Westpahalia. She worked as a servant / maid in St. Louis MO

Does anyone know of a link that you can look up church records from Saxony?

Hi, I am looking for info on Peter Riehm Ream. Peter and his wife Anna Catherine Zeller were born in PA in 1786, she in Snyder Co. I am searching for his parents and his place of birth. I know that most of the children were born in Lycoming Co. PA, He was there in 1830, found in a census. They moved to OH, then on to IN, where both passed away in 1858 and 1860.

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I am looking for my Ketterer ancestors. I have hit a brick wall with John Ketterer (misspelled Ketrer in 1850 census of Berks County PA USA) . He was born in Germany on 25 JUN 1802 and his wife's first name was Rebecca.

I am also searching for the Morell family of Bavaria. My last ancestor that I can find was Adam Morell, arrived in Philadelphia PA from Bavaria in 1852. He married Katharina Epp, also from Bavaria. He was born 10 DEC 1826. I have been able to trace the Epp family thanks to Michael Muller in Germany but have no more information on the Morell's. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Kathleen

looking for any Grams

GRAms

Can you tell me more about Morell Bayern particulary where it is located.

thank you i will check

Trying to find any information on Matheas WEYMERT (also WEIMERT) from Langensaltzbach. Came to the US in 1750 on the ship Anderson from Rotterdam. The family was in Maryland. It seems that much of the Weimer heritage comes from Langensaltzbach, ALSACE, France. Apparently quite a few Germans settled there. His son Adam Weimert born c1737 in Weimer, Germany.

My great grandmother was Mary Darr born 1843 in Pennsylvania probably in Cumberland Co, dau of Richard Darr and Mary Peters. I am looking for information about Richard Darr and family.

I would appreciate anu help or research suggestions

Thank you

Sandy Cowan

Thank you, Michael. Very interesting site.

I would like to suggest a very useful book on beginning German genealogy. "Be4ginner's Guide to Germanic Genealogy," by Lois Hemmeter Edwards. It is published by the German Genealogy Society. Their webpage is
www.rootsweb.com/~mnggs/GGS.html

It gives ou a step-by-step process to find your german ancestors. The essential steps are:
1. the Name
2. religion
3. birthdate
4. place of origin

The biggest problem is locating the "Place of Origin". To do this, in most cases, you need to use American records.

For those who live near Sacramento, CA, there is help through the Sacramento German Genealogy Society. They have volunteers at the Sacramento Family History Society, every Thursday afternoon from 1-5 pm. The society has over 1000 German, research related books that the FHC.

Carol,

Thank you for that information. I wish I lived near Sacramento, but live across the country. I will definitely look for that book.

Cheryl

thanks for name of book. i used to live near a town that has a german-american center that i might look into.

the name of the center is german american heritage center and their website says they have something on facebook

My great grandmother was a Box. The immigrant was Henry Box, who supposedly came from "Little English" in Prussia. The name and town have obviously been Anglicanized. I wonder if anyone has an idea where to start in my quest for the Box family in Prussia.

Looking for information on George Zavitz, b. 1695 in Strasbourg Ger. married to Babara. Was in USA Bucks Co PA in 1750

Looking for info on the family, with spelling variations, Lindbeck/Lindbaek/Lindbak/ Lindbek, living in the Tempelburg area during 1935.

Looking for Hahn and Schoenborn family from Neu-Isenburg area. This is my mother and grandmothers family.

Researcing the surnames Weikert and Graf for my best friend. I only have a US sub to Ancestry so any help would be fantastic. The family currently lives in Altenstadt.

Looking for Baumhofer/Baumhoefer from Hanover. Emgrated to the US about 1848.

Looking for Joseph & Anna Macy, came to USA from Germany approx 1884? Settled in PA, known son William, his middle name possibly Hildebrandt born Schuylkill Falls area 04/08/1858. William in Brooklyn NY on 1900 census. Cannot find birth certificate, marriage info, etc. nor any immigration info on parents. On all census William lists his parents from Germany

GRAMS,MARTIN NOT SURE WHAT PART OF GERMANY

I'm writing my family history. Looking to add some flavour to my history and hoping someone can suggest some books that would offer some history, culture and traditions and insite into the people of this area around the arly 1800's. My relatives were specifically from the Baden area, Osensbach, Rust as well as Alasce, Strasbourg. Any reading or reference material we welcomed.

For Jill Nowak: There are several very active Germans from Russia organizations. Go to the GRHS.org website or the NDSU website: http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/. Both have excellent websites with lots of history and genealogy information. All of my ancestors are Germans from Russia and I have been researching them for several years. If I can be of any help, let me know.

Michael, Thank you for your help and direction. Gave me an avenue to head.

Is there a German website comparable to the Danish website Statens Arlivers Arkivalieronline which provides scanned copies of the parish records?

a great grandparent left denmark because germany took over the part he lived in. would the records then be in german or danish?

Her family is in the Altenstadt between Ulm and Memmingen. She is in contact still with her parents but seems there is no info on other family members. Father's name is Josef Weikert, mother is Charlotte Graf. Are there any free sites for German info that are in English?

hi im checking for a grams,martin. he had a son named william who was born in germany.dont know what area. william was born oct 30,1851. william married wilnelmina albertina radunz. they had some children in germany and some in usa. went to illinois

I am researching the surnames
Tecklenberg, Heers, Wolter and Thaler
in the 1800 to 1900 period

please add the surnames
Tecklenberg, Heers, Wolter and Thaler
to your list

After years of searching for my grandfather's birthplace, I have a lead that should prove useful. I have followed any number of blind leads, some from his family, but now I believe I have useful data. In March, 1913, he applied for a passport to return to Germany to visit his family. In that application he says he was born in Richenau, Germany on 11 August 1855. I have no information on his religion before he came to the United States, which he says was in January 1883, leaving from Bremen onboard the ship "Werra" and residing continuously in Whitesboro, NY from his arrival in 1881 until 1913. I do have documentation that he was married in Fort Plain, NY on December 31, 1884 to Anna Barbara YOPS. My grandfather's name was Henry (or Heinrich) MICHEL. I also know that for some years in his life, he used the last name MICHAEL. With only this information, I am very interested in learning the techniques by which I might find out more about his birth and family. He lived in Whitesboro, NY until his death in January, 1947, having five children with Anna Barbara YOPS. The youngest of those children was my father, Charles MICHEL. Any suggestions or assistance would be very much appreciated.
Don Michel
3 Tara Lane
Cape Neddick, ME 03902

I am researching the BETZ family from Sennfeld. The earliest information I have is John Matthias BETZ, aka Georg Betz or Baez. He married Elizabeth Catherine HERSCH on 28 January 1827 in Sennfeld, Mosbach, Baden, Germany. They had two sons, Andreas (born c. 1828 in Sennfeld) and Peter Conrad (born c. 1833 in Sennfeld). Andreas was a tailor. He emigrated to America in 1851 and married Anna Mary KONEIG (born c. 1836) on 20 July 1854 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. A number of children were born there including Sophie (1854), Ernest Otto (1858), Udolphe (1858) and John (1860). Between 1860 and 1863 the family returned to Sennfeld, where two further children were born - Carl in 1863 and Emma in 1864. The family emigrated from Germany to Australia in 1865 and both Carl and Emma died on the voyage and were buried at sea. Four further children were born in Australia including, Charles (1867), Sophie (1871) and Anna Mary (1874).

Andreas' brother Peter Conrad emigrated to Australia in 1857. He married Magdalena Bunz c. 1866.

I have more information on some of the above and their descendants and would be interested to hear from anyone with information on this family or on how I can obtain any relevant records on the family from Germany.

i have an x near my name what does that mean? do you see my comments anyone?

Hi I am from Batesville, Indiana, I am working on the surnames in Ripley county, Indiana, as follows. Ahrens, Michel,Fruchtnicht,Bricka,Bauman, Pohlar,Baas,Richter, Rennemeier,Webb. Gardner, Ellinghausen, Luers,Alot more If anyone thinks they may help me in any of these please Feel Free to contact me. I would be happy to help anyone who need help in my Area. Thanks

I am looking for the parents/siblings of Elizabeth Schneider who was b Dec 1852 in Wuertenberg Germany and came to the US in 1866 to live with relatives.She m Frederick Koehler in 1871 and moved to Iowa. She d Sept 1919 in Iowa, According to her obit, she was survived by a bro, John, in Carroll co, Illinois and a sis,Magdelena Whitely in Germany.This is all that I know. I thank anyone that could help.

Looking for any information about a Matthias Hettich's ancestry or other family members from the Black Forest area of Wuertenberg or Baten, Baten, Germany. Matthias was born in 1858 in Germany and immigrated to New York in 1882. He settled in Brooklyn, NY and married a Christina Foernbacher in 1885. I would loke to find out more about his ancestors in Germany,

Sally lou Widener: Where are your Richters from?

i dont know from what area in germany but i had relatives settle in rock island,illinois area.william grams was born in germany oct 30,1851. he married a wilhelmina albertina radunz. his first two children were born and buried in germany.no dates. the next 4 were born in germany but were buried in luthern cemetery in rock island. next 3 were born in germany with names carl(charles),albert,minnie. next 3 were born in usa names otto,walter,emile. william's father was martin

Link for some obits in Nebraska:
Obituaries from Omaha and Douglas County Nebraska, Newspapers
Obituaries listed below are from the Cass County Echo Newspaper published in Plattsmouth,Nebraska; the South Omaha Sun Newspaper published in South Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, and the World-Herald Newspaper published in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska.
http://italianmomomaha.blogspot.com/2009/06/cass-county-echo-newspaper.html#links