Hello Jaap Profijt, Your English is excellent. Other List Members, Can any of you help this person? John would you have any idea where this person could look for information? Nelda Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ ----Original Message Follows---- From: "jaaprof@tiscali.nl" <jaaprof@tiscali.nl> Reply-To: "jaaprof@tiscali.nl" <jaaprof@tiscali.nl> To: AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [HESSIAN] hofeditz Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:50:33 +0200 (CEST) Hello I'm looking for a hessen soldier who probaly deserted during the yourney through germany, because he married in 1779 at a village in Holland named De Wijk. His name was in holland Johann Cristopher Otten born at 10-04-1741 in Sielen.In the churchrecords in Sielen they find a Johann Christian Hofedtiz,born att 11-04-1741 . excuse my english greetings Jaap Profijt