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."

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