dj, > Does anyone have access to a Familienbuch for Ichenheim which offers any > positive or negative information about its born-in-1843 Johann Jäger? if no other member can offer a lookup I can check the Familienbuch within the next weeks. - Wendelin ----- Original Message ----- From: "djweber" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 4:26 AM Subject: [Ortenau] "Baydin" and (maybe) Ichenheim > That trip to Ohio allowed me some time to visit a good genealogical library. > I had a chance to spend some time on two far-from finished ancestral lines; > those lines which my mother-in-law brought to the family for my children and > where I fear her ghost is protecting the secret of her ancestry from me. > > One of the lines is the much too common potential search for a Johann Jäger > (born in 1843) while the other is for a certainly fictious surname with the > name being Martin Bichimer (born in 1840). > > However, the Jäger line finally gave me a clue; a clue of origin as "Baydin" > which sadly might be Baden or might be Bayern. Even this clue is still > hidden within the secret. > > Hoping that it might be Baden, I have ordered the proper LDS roll of film > for the Baden Emigration Index. In various other searchings, there is a > hint (from what I consider as a often flawed IGI) that a Johann Jäger was > born in 1843 in Ichenheim. > > I am looking for a Johann Jäger who emigrated about 1872 (at least before > 1875) with a wife of an unknown name (but then she might have died in > Germany before the emigration) however with children, Johann Ignaz born in > 1868 and twins Carry (probably Karolina) and Lena (Magdalena) born in 1870. > > Does anyone have access to a Familienbuch for Ichenheim which offers any > positive or negative information about its born-in-1843 Johann Jäger? > > djweber > [email protected]