Alex...   Many thanks for always bumping Kathy and I together....look what it led to! Ken Christie (njgcards@yahoo.com) 112 Indigo Cove Kyle, TX 78640 --- On Sun, 2/14/10, Bguysmom@aol.com <Bguysmom@aol.com> wrote: From: Bguysmom@aol.com <Bguysmom@aol.com> Subject: Re: Found it!! To: njgcards@yahoo.com Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 6:41 PM Holy Cow! I knew it too but just needed to figure this out. I knew in my heart that we were somehow because a lot of the names you had I had. You will have to tell Alex and we should put it on the Dvhh as a year long mystery solved. Talk to you later Cousin  Happy Valentines Day!  Kathy In a message dated 2/14/2010 1:40:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, njgcards@yahoo.com writes: Kathy...   We are 4th cousins once-removed.....we share Catharina Lauer (*1799)....she is my ggg-grandmother via my maternal grandmother's side and she is one of your gggg-grandmothers.   I had not extended this line back until today and was surprised what I ran into....Catharina Lauer's first husband was Peter Rothgerber (*1797).  They had a daughter Barbara (*1821) who married Nicolaus Kircher (*1818).  They had a son Philip (*1853) who had a son Michael (*1886).  I believe this is your great-grandfather.   Peter Rothgerber died in 1824 and Catharina Lauer remarried to Bernard Frank (*1797).  They had a daughter Margaretha Frank (*1841).  Margaretha and Barbara Rothgerber were half-sisters as they shared the same mother and grew up in the same household.  Margaretha married Adam Schneider (*1831) and they had a son Philip (*1871).  Philip went on to marry Elisabeth Rammacher (*1877).  Their oldest daughter Elisabeth (*1897) is my grandmother who married John Gimbel and eventually lived in the house at 48 Duke Street.   In addition, Elisabeth Rammacher's brother Johann married Ottilia Zoller.  There are many connections between our families and it was nice to finally find out that we are, in fact, related!   Your "cousin",  Ken Christie (njgcards@yahoo.com) 112 Indigo Cove Kyle, TX 78640

Hoorah for cousins who found one another! Let's have more of the same in 2010. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Christie" <njgcards@yahoo.com> To: <ajleeb@shaw.ca> Cc: <DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES@rootsweb.com>; <Bguysmom@aol.com>; <Banat-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 11:11 PM Subject: [DVHH] Year Long Mystry Solved Alex... Many thanks for always bumping Kathy and I together....look what it led to! Ken Christie (njgcards@yahoo.com) 112 Indigo Cove Kyle, TX 78640 --- On Sun, 2/14/10, Bguysmom@aol.com <Bguysmom@aol.com> wrote: From: Bguysmom@aol.com <Bguysmom@aol.com> Subject: Re: Found it!! To: njgcards@yahoo.com Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 6:41 PM Holy Cow! I knew it too but just needed to figure this out. I knew in my heart that we were somehow because a lot of the names you had I had. You will have to tell Alex and we should put it on the Dvhh as a year long mystery solved. Talk to you later Cousin Happy Valentines Day! Kathy In a message dated 2/14/2010 1:40:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, njgcards@yahoo.com writes: Kathy... We are 4th cousins once-removed.....we share Catharina Lauer (*1799)....she is my ggg-grandmother via my maternal grandmother's side and she is one of your gggg-grandmothers. I had not extended this line back until today and was surprised what I ran into....Catharina Lauer's first husband was Peter Rothgerber (*1797). They had a daughter Barbara (*1821) who married Nicolaus Kircher (*1818). They had a son Philip (*1853) who had a son Michael (*1886). I believe this is your great-grandfather. Peter Rothgerber died in 1824 and Catharina Lauer remarried to Bernard Frank (*1797). They had a daughter Margaretha Frank (*1841). Margaretha and Barbara Rothgerber were half-sisters as they shared the same mother and grew up in the same household. Margaretha married Adam Schneider (*1831) and they had a son Philip (*1871). Philip went on to marry Elisabeth Rammacher (*1877). Their oldest daughter Elisabeth (*1897) is my grandmother who married John Gimbel and eventually lived in the house at 48 Duke Street. In addition, Elisabeth Rammacher's brother Johann married Ottilia Zoller. There are many connections between our families and it was nice to finally find out that we are, in fact, related! Your "cousin", Ken Christie (njgcards@yahoo.com) 112 Indigo Cove Kyle, TX 78640 -------------------------------- adlige Vorfahren aristocratic ancestors, ancestors of noble birth ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message