To the AMREV-HESSIANS mail list Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 8:24 PM > ======================================== > Source: DINGES-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: DINGES/DINGESS from DOENGES ! > > Surnames: DOENGES, DINGES, DINGESS, TINKESS, TINKES, TINKIS. > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hBT.2ACIB/24.1 > > This is getting more interesting as we go along - I mentioned > in my previous posting to this DINGES Message Board that > I just had posted a message about a Hessian soldier of the > American Revolution to the DOENGES Message Board. > Today there was a reply from a DINGESS descendant, who > as I checked him out, is a contributor in a big way to the > DINGESS Message Board - get it? DOENGES - DINGES - > and DINGESS, plus the other variations starting with a "T", > like TINKESS, TINKES and TINKIS. When I checked the > DINGESS Board (the one with the double-S spelling), I did > notice some more peculiarities, like many of the individuals > named in the early 1800s came from West Virginia or Maryland, which makes me just think that the original > progenitor may have been that Hessen-Hanau solder > Christoph DOENGES from Mittelbuchen near Hanau, > who is described in the Journal of the Pennsylvania German > Society, vol. 23/1989/2, page 52. > Incidentely, I am the mail list administrator of the Rootsweb > mailing list AMREV-HESSIANS-L@ and if you are up to > snuff, you could check the mail list archives of that list > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/AMREV-HESSIANS-L > You finally may find your true roots :-) plus getting some > interesting history lessons about the American Revolution. > Yours truly, > John Helmut Merz, > looking for my Anna Barbara DOENGES, born 1780 in > Bleichenbach near Ortenberg/Hessen. >