G'day Siegfried, The Victorians would agree that you have the pecking order correct. Regards Bob -----Original Message----- From: Siegfried Rambaum [mailto:siram@lightlink.com] Sent: Tuesday, 30 November 2004 3:15 AM To: AUS-GERMAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-GERMAN] Re: AUS-GERMAN-D Digest V04 #127 > Some of them, including my forbear Gottlieb Friedrich Moritz came from > Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) which was then in the Duchy of > Braunschweig > (Brunswick) in the Kingdom of Hanover. Sounds to a German like "duchy of New South Wales in the kingdom of Victoria" would sound to an Australian :) Braunschweig was a state distinct and separate from Hannover, cf. http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/regio.htm http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/ger1871.htm ==== AUS-GERMAN Mailing List ==== For your Aus-German resources go to http://www.ainsleehooper.com/germlinks.htm ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx