I type up a letter and send it to all the people with the last name I am looking for. I got a couple replies. Tracy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Greenthaner" <cgreenthaner@hotmail.com> To: <BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 5:43 PM Subject: RE: [BAVARIA] Need help to locate origin of John Adam Scheller > Hi > > I used www.meinestadt.de and found 9 entries for Lippe in Bavaria. None of > the entries come under the actual name of Lippe, but under other towns. This > most likely means that Lippe is a very small village that is now counted as > part of a larger town area. Here are the names I found: > > Bad Feilnbach > Baernau > Ering > Gaimersheim > Konnersreuth > Leupoldsgruen > Naila > Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz > Unterthingau > > To find the towns in the internet it is often enough to type in (for eg): > www.baernau.de. In this way you might quickly get to the right spot. If > you can find an address for the "Stadtverwaltung" (=city hall) on the site, > a quick email (or sometimes you will need to write a letter), will confirm > that Lippe is now part of that place. You can also ask which church > (catholic most likely) was responsible for that village in the early 1800s. > This way you can narrow down a search - look up the LDS site to see if the > registers have been filmed, or even write to the church and ask. I have > found that most times the Stadtverwaltung is very helpful, and the churches > also tend to answer letters - although they might not do a search for you as > most registers are centralised in Regensburg. For that archive you have to > pay a fee. > > I hope this might have helped. Sorry there are 9 entries to plough through! > I had a similar problem in Bavaria - it was a real nightmare. > > Christine > > > >From: RayAOne@aol.com > >Reply-To: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com > >To: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [BAVARIA] Need help to locate origin of John Adam Scheller > >Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:24:20 EDT > > > >I have a lot of information pertaining to my gr,gr,grandfather, John Adam > >Scheller but can not find out where his home town is in "The Kingdom of > >Bavaria. > > > >Facts I have proof of: > > > >* Born 4/28/1814 (year confirmed by census reports in 1860 and 1870) > >* Died 12/26/1888 in New York City (confirmed by death certificate) > >* Adam was Lutheran > >* Buried in Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, NY (confirmed by death > >certificate and > > Cemetery records) > >* Became a citizen 10/21/1852 in New York (confirmed by NARA) > >* Married Dorothea Eva Goring (confirmed by Family Search IGI) - date un > >known > > Dorothea was born 11/10/1825 and died 12/12/1875 (Per death > >certificate) > >* Had 5 children (one died early) > >* Census information: > > 1860: Adam Schiller - 44 (?); Doretta (?) 34; Adam 11; Amelia > >9; > >Henry 6; Margaret > > 2/12; Adam and Doretta's listed place of birth was > >Bavaria > > Adam was a cabinet maker. > > > > 1870: Adam Scheller - 56; Dorothy 45; Adam 21; Henry 16; > >Minnie 9 > > Adam and Dorothy's listed place of birth was Bavaria > > Adam was a cabinet maker. > > > > 1880: Nothing found for Adam - Dorothea passed away in 1875. > >Son > >George Adam > > Sheller listed with his family. Census shows birth > >place for both Adam and > > Dorothea to be "Lippe". > > > >* Dorothea Eva Goring emigrated from "Deutschland" on the Ship Howard. > >Arrival date was > > May 28, 1847, Her age was 22. Port of Departure was Hamburg, Germany. > >Port of Arrival > > was New York. On the same ship was a passenger named Adam Schille > >(?). > >This info > > came from the New York, 1820-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists. > > > >* A search at _www.jewishgen.org_ (http://www.jewishgen.org) reveals th e > >following about Lippe: > > > > Lippe - located 274.6 miles W of Berlin > > Lippe - located 260.7 miles W of Berlin > > Lippe - located 29.8 miles SE of Berlin > > Lippe - located 204.1 miles W of Berlin > > Lippe - located 289.0 miles WSW of Berlin > > Lippe - located 260.8 miles WSW of Berlin > > Lippe (Emscher-Lippe) - located 264.5 miles W of Berlin > > > >Any help received will be greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance. > > > > > > > > > >==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== > >Have you consider the volunteering of transcribing parish records to be > >added to WorldGenWeb Archives for others to research? > >Contact mailto:dsam@sampubco.com?subject=transcribing_records > > > > > > ==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== > Have you consider the volunteering of transcribing parish records to be added to WorldGenWeb Archives for others to research? > Contact mailto:dsam@sampubco.com?subject=transcribing_records > >