This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: grimm149 Surnames: Bargerstock, Bittinger, Neal/Niel Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.bittinger/82.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have a copy of a letter by Emmert F. Bittinger, Ph.D of Bridgewater, VA 22812 August 22, 1983. "The Bittinger Ancestral Villages in Alsace". The letter goes on about his father, Rev.Foster M. Bittinger in 1933, then a pastor in Virgina researching the Bittingers living in Adams Co, Pa., Somerset Co.,Pa., and Garrett Co., Md. I believe Emmert F. Bittinger was teaching in Germany in the year 1982-83 for the University of Maryland Overseas Program. He researched on his own to find the village that Hans Adam Buoinger was born in. Only after a visit to the Cercle genealogue d'alsace in Strasbourg, a genealogist, Mr. Allonas Thierry discovered the marriage ,birth and death records for the Bittinger family and thus confirmed the village locations. Emmert visited the villages, Durstel and Ottwiller located about 50 kilometers southeast of Saarbrucken, near Drulinger,France. The wife of Hans Adam Buoinger was from Durstel and Hans Adam was from Ottwiller. There children were: ! Joseph Adam, John Henry, George Michael and Johann Peter. The village of Ottwiller is the place where Hans Adams Buttinger was born and where his parents, Peter Buttinger and Marie-Sabine Muller lived and where Peter Buttinger was born ca 1678. The letter goes on about the vist to the villages and cemeteries. No Bittingers are living in the villages today and the life of the villagers seem to belong to another century. This letter has been in my file on the Bittinger family since 2000 and I have kept it because it may someday prove who the parents are of John Bittinger of Armstrong Co.,PA. I have a death certificate for John Bittinger of Armstrong Co., PA stating he came from Frankllin Co.,PA. No parents are listed. He was married to Sarah Schrecengost and then to Catherine Jubee Bargerstock Neal/Neil of Armstrong Co.,PA. My interest is his relationship to the Bargerstock family when they lived in Wayne Twp., Armstrong Co.,PA. If anyone wants a copy of the letter by! Emmert F. Bittinger, Ph.D.please reply, the copy I have is very poor and I have done my best to spell the names and places correctly. I wonder if Emmert F.Bittinger is still living. I hope he did some follow up history when in Germany on the Bittinger family. I do appreciate him sharing his information. Libby Bargerstock-Grimm Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.