> Von: susanne r judson <ALEXASJ@prodigy.net> > Johannes: > > Where do you live....???? Perhaps Germany????? Yes, I live in Germany. > My ggrandfather, Johann Heinrich Buehler was born 5 Sep 1851 they > say in Dormborn, Germany.... but I have already determined > there wasn't a "Dormborn"...perhaps a Dornberg. He came > to USA with his uncle as a young boy and eventually moved > and married in Crystal Lake, McHenry, Illinois, USA. Though I am German I don't know every German town or village. Some years ago the both different Germanies got reunited and the Eastern part has a lot of towns of which the West Germans like me never heard before in their lifes. :-) Write an email to geo@genealogy.net , leave the subject blank and type into the first line the name of ONE town. If you want to know if other towns exist then type into EACH line ONE town name. Then send it to Geo and wait a few minutes. Geo will send you back the information which it has available. If you don't know the exact spelling of a town name you can use asterisks. In example you're looking for the German town of Hamburg: Write Ham*urg or *amburg or Ha*g and Geo will send you the names back of every town which fits. BUT.....it only works with GERMAN town names. DON'T ask Geo for the English name. Munich in German is Muenchen, Cologne is Koeln, Frankfort is Frankfurt and so on. Here in Germany we have to pay the costs for the phone calls to our provider's point of presence. Depending on the day or night time it is very expensive. Therefore, please, check Geo first for Domborn or whatever by yourself. If this fails because Geo doesn't know this town name we should concentrate on town names of similar spellings. Would this be okay? :-) > Do you know where Dornberg is???? There are three different Dornbergs in Germany. One is in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, the other two are in the state of Bavaria. Additionally, one Dornberg was in East Prussia, a second Dornberg was in Silesia - both formerly German provinces until 1945. Which one do you want? > Where I can get a good old map site on the > web with Dornberg on it.? Go on http://www.metacrawler.de which is a meta search engine which searches in several search engines at the same time and type in the name of Dornberg. There, you hopefully get for what you are looking for. > Who I should write to for his birth, etc. I also > would love to know his parents name. Supposedly his parents were > both dead when he came to the USA. To find this out you first should know which Dornberg you mean. > My ggrandmother was Christine Peters born 6 Jul 1858 and she came > to USA as a child. She was from Petershagen, Vorpommern, > Germany and her parents were Carl Johan Frederick Peters > and Wilhelmine Regine Tress. I don't have birth for Christine > or any other info about her parents. Do you know to whom I > should perhaps write for her birth, etc? The same to Petershagen. There are several in Germany. Vorpommern was a part in the formerly East Germany which I don't know but there is a mailinglist for Pomeranians. You will find it somewhere on http://www.rootsweb.com . You should ask your question again there. There are the experts who can help you better. > Any hoooo, I get e-mail with your name on it all the time.... You seem to have chosen the single mail version? There is also a digest version available. Digest version means you receive one email per day (or two) with email attachments of those who wrote an email to this list. > you are certainly a busy person. Oh yes. I receive up to 30 emails per day. > Do you ever find time to do your own genealogy? Not in the moment. :-) > I just recently (6 months ago) got on the Internet and boy what a > wealth of information there is out there. The internet is such like a one big data base. If you know how to use it you will have much fun. :-) Btw, on http://www.genealogy.com you will find a lot of interesting advises how to research in Germany. -- Best regards/Gruss, Johannes Sempert Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.