yes, it was posted here a week or so ago. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Lynda L. Jones wrote: > YES! That's it! I remember reading about that Moch family! Now, > tell me . > . . did someone on this board post it? I'm going to be really > embarrassed > if they did. Even more embarrassed because I wanted to post it! > > Best wishes, > Lynda Jones > Bloomsburg, PA USA > > > _____ > > > . > Weberstedt, Thuringen, Germany - home of the Uttrodts > Family names: Brong, Freitag, von Freitag, Miller, Prang, Savino, > Schueller, Uetterodt, von Uetterodt, Utterodt, Uttenrodt, von > Uttenrodt, > Uttrodt, Ottrott, Van Etten, Van Horn > Collateral lines: Dwyer, Eltus, LaFrance, Prentice, Smith > . > > > -----Original Message----- > From: alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Sunshine49 > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:00 PM > To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com > Subject: [A-L] Alsatian Jewish Community Ohio > > > Is this what a member was looking for, about an Alsatian community in > the US? > > Nancy > > ------- > Believe those who seek the truth; > Doubt those who find it. > > -Andre Gide > > > >> >> from www.kentuckypress.com/prshevitz_cities.doc >> >> "The University Press of Kentucky, July 13, 2007 >> A Quick Glance at Unique Jewish Communities Along the Ohio >> >> Gallipolis Ohio- Founded in 1790 as 'the city of the Gauls' by a >> small group of refugees from the French Revolution, the Jews in >> this small community hailed from the Alsace region of France. The >> community is renowned for its high proportion of Alsatian landsmen >> accustomed to small village life in Europe, though they only >> numbered five percent of the total Jewish population at that time. >> The town was also home to the Moch family, one of the wealthiest >> Jewish families in eighteenth-century Alsace." > > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE- > LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message