Dear Siegfried I think I may have forgotten to thank you for your help. I have looked at the site and after Christmas I will get my German speaking son to do some work on it for me..even though you said I didn't need to write in German, it would be easier. Have a great Christmas. Jill Cummins ----- Original Message ----- From: "Siegfried Rambaum" <siram@lightlink.com> To: <AUS-GERMAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 7:11 AM Subject: [AUS-GERMAN] Re: AUS-GERMAN-D Digest V04 #145 > > Is anyone reading this note related to > > Carl Friedrich Louis Honig > > Dorothea Julieane Honig > > Georg Friedrich Ernst Honig > > Auguste Amalie Honig > > These people arrived on the Herder from Hamburg to Adelaide on the 21/ 9/1851 > > I would like to know where these people originated from in "Germany". > > one area, where agents soliciting emigration to australia were very > successful, was the trans-Oder eastern part of the Brandenburg province. > An though the database of the Neumark-L maliniglist does not show any Honig > as an emigrant, it -- however -- shows a handful of Honigs, 1580...1930: > > http://db.genealogy.net/cgi-bin/neumark.pl?name=honig&beruf=&ort=&kreis= > http://db.genealogy.net/cgi-bin/neumark.pl?name=h%F6n&beruf=&ort=&kreis= > > I would recommend that you post your questions on the BRANDENBURG-L mai- > linglist, too. To subscribe, send the word SUBSCRIBE to > > brandenburg-l-request@genealogy.net > > Brandenburg-L is mainly in German, but if you ask in English you will get > the responses in English. > > > I promise not to ask ever again > > Humm, how will you resolveypur next question then? I mean, once you find out > where your folks are from, the questions will multiply like laboratory mice. > Each answer will sire at least three new questions ... > > > > ==== 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 >