Hello Penny, maybe you can get answers from the STADTARCHIV ESSLINGEN, they hold a great collection of family informations. stadtarchiv@esslingen.de http://www.esslingen.de Stadtarchiv Esslingen Marktplatz 20 73728 Esslingen am Neckar Deutschland/Germany Or you try to sent a posting on http://list.genealogy.net/mailman/listinfo/bawue-l, I'm not a member of these mailinglist. regards from germany Manuela ----- Original Message ----- From: "Penny" <academicadventures@telkomsa.net> > I am researching Jacob Christoff MANGOLD born in Esslingen on 5 July 1848. > Jacob's apprenticeship of five years with the firm Kessler in Esslingen > (which manufactured locomotives in particular) qualified him as a trained > fitter. He left Germany before 1865 to go to England and then South Africa > where he settled. He had a brother Carl who was born in 1850 who joined > his > brother later in South Africa. I'm looking for any info about Jacob, his > ancestors and his life in Germany. > > Penny Mannheim nee Mangold