Giday Warren, Do you have an "Atma" in your family surname list. I have a good friend of that name, who married Christine FUSS. My folks are Niedersachsens from around Clausthal-Zellarfeld. They lived in Lerbach, which is about 30km from C - Z. I have copies of some of their emigration papers which I obtained from the Bergampt Archiv (Mine Warden's Archives) in Clausthal. This a good source of information on folks who left the area in the late 1840's, because the Mine Warden administered a scheme, funded by the British Government, to assist the impoverished miners and other skilled persons to emigrate from there to the British colonies. When I visited the Archiv some years ago, I was surprised to find that there are many records there, in manila folders, all tied up in Kingdom of Hanover purple tape. My Great Great Grandfather Gottlieb Friedrich Moritz, with his wife and family arrived in Adelaide on the Godeffroy, early in 1849. Regards Bob Bob Moritz e-mail - [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Warren McLean [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 22 January 2002 15:17 To: [email protected] Subject: [AUS-GERMAN] My Hartz mountaineers. G'day folks, My contribution to the roll call. The following are my direct German ancester names. LUTZ TRULL GROSSCHWITZ DEMUTS POHLER SOMMER HANNIG OPITZ SCHOLL SHULZ MEINELT SOMMER These families are all from around Clausthal, Zellerfeld in the Hartz mountains.They connect both directly and by marriage to my FUSS family which lobbed in Port Adelaide on 15th December 1847on the "Herman von Beckerath" out of Bremen on the River Weser. Names that married into my FUSS family in Australia.(Short list!) CHAPMAN CUMMING DUNN WHETSTONE TREGONING MCLEAN HOOPER Regards Warren [email protected] http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~kernow/wm1.htm Phone: +61 (08) 83811 011 Mobile: 043 85 83811 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 11/01/02 ==== AUS-GERMAN Mailing List ==== For your Aus-German resources go to http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~ainslee_hooper/germlinks.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237