baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com writes: >I would assume I would need to write the letter in German and English. > >Any hints would be appreciated > >Darlene Odenwalder You might contact your nearby university and the langauge department. As a professor of language (Spanish), I know that we often get requests from community members. It would only be fair to ask if they charge, since it is not their regular job to do those things, but at least you will get good quality German. Do not use an online computer translator - they are, as I said numerous times, useless and an insult to the speakers of that other language. The only good online translation would be through a dictionary, such as the one at wordreference.com. Kathleen March, Ph.D. Professor of Spanish Department of Modern Languages & Classics 201 Little Hall University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207-581-2088

davidstroebel@yahoo.com writes: >I just discovered that I could not find any record of my great grandparents leaving germany for America on the Baden-Wurttemberg emmigration site at http://www.auswanderer-bw.de > >Castle Gardens Immigration center web site reads that they lived in Sigmaringen, Germany. Sigmaringen is in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Why then can't I find either of them even when I try to spell their names 6 different ways? > >Before leaving for the USA in 1883, both great grandparents worked in the home of Kaiser Wilhem I. Is it possible they worked in Berlin? > >Their names are Johann Stroebele and Bertha (Arnold) Stroebele. They came over with 3 small boys, one being an infant (11 months old). Johann came over after Bertha, but unsure when. He was a shoemaker. David, I found this - are these the boys? STROEBELE ADOLPH 4 1883 STROEBELE JOHANN 7 1883 STROEBELE OTTO 11 MONTHS 1883 http://www.dad-recherche.de/hmb/search_engl.asp?Nachname=Stroebele&Vorname=&Geschlecht=M&Datum=1883&Datum2=&Datum3= Then I found this: STROEBELE BERTHA 32 1883 http://www.dad-recherche.de/hmb/search_engl.asp?Nachname=Stroebele&Vorname=Bertha&Geschlecht=F&Datum=1883&Datum2=&Datum3= Kathleen

Hi Kathleen, Yes, that's them. What database was I looking at and will it tell me something other tahn Sigmaringen? Dave --- On Thu, 8/14/08, Kathleen March <Kathleen_March@umit.maine.edu> wrote: > From: Kathleen March <Kathleen_March@umit.maine.edu> > Subject: [BW] Stroebele > To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com > Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 4:28 PM > davidstroebel@yahoo.com writes: > >I just discovered that I could not find any record of > my great grandparents leaving germany for America on the > Baden-Wurttemberg emmigration site at > http://www.auswanderer-bw.de > > > >Castle Gardens Immigration center web site reads that > they lived in Sigmaringen, Germany. Sigmaringen is in the > state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Why then can't I find > either of them even when I try to spell their names 6 > different ways? > > > >Before leaving for the USA in 1883, both great > grandparents worked in the home of Kaiser Wilhem I. Is it > possible they worked in Berlin? > > > >Their names are Johann Stroebele and Bertha (Arnold) > Stroebele. They came over with 3 small boys, one being an > infant (11 months old). Johann came over after Bertha, but > unsure when. He was a shoemaker. > > David, I found this - are these the boys? > > STROEBELE > ADOLPH > 4 > 1883 > > STROEBELE > JOHANN > 7 > 1883 > > STROEBELE > OTTO > 11 MONTHS > 1883 > > > > > http://www.dad-recherche.de/hmb/search_engl.asp?Nachname=Stroebele&Vorname=&Geschlecht=M&Datum=1883&Datum2=&Datum3= > > Then I found this: > > STROEBELE > BERTHA > 32 > 1883 > > http://www.dad-recherche.de/hmb/search_engl.asp?Nachname=Stroebele&Vorname=Bertha&Geschlecht=F&Datum=1883&Datum2=&Datum3= > > > Kathleen > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message