Thanks Siegfried, I will try this avenue. You are right about the questions but I have spent so much time on GG Auguste that I am about to chuck in the towel if I don't find anything in the next few weeks. I may have to accept that she was born "somewhere in Germany" but it would be fun to know where. Regards, and Merry Christmas JILL CUMMINS > > 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 ... >