I am searching for information on Josef JANZER of Gross Betschkerek as shown below from Dave Dreyer's Ship List: JANZER Josef -[J526]- Age: 28 -From: Gr Betschkerek -DtAr: Wednesday, 5 Jun 1907 - To: Chicago, IL -Via: Bre/NY -Ship: K Wilhelm Ii -Note: Born in Gr Betschkerek. Last residence, Temeswar Thank you, Fran Matkovich

The DVHH village list shows a Sanmartin 28 miles SW of Timisoara. However, I have maps that show a Sanktmartin west of Simand and Sintana in Arad. In the new Stader book IX it mentions Werners in Sanktmartin and Schimand and I believe it to be the Arad villages. Does anyone have any clues? Thanks, Susanne Werner

I have just received my new Sammelwerk Donauschwabischer Kolonisten, Vol. IX which is We-Z. I am happy to do lookups but do not read German so can only copy what is written. I have found a few possible links to my family and could use some help with translation. Susanne Werner

Forwarding to list ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fran Matkovich <[email protected]> Date: 24 July 2017 at 15:33 Subject: RE: [DVHH] ECK & MERLE families from STEPHANSFELD To: Eve <[email protected]>, DVHH-L Administrator < [email protected]> Hi Stephanie, If recognize any of these they might give you the starting village for your search. You can also do a search here On Eck. The website is http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~banatdata/DDB/HomePage.htm . Notice Zichydorf and Ernsthausen are also mentioned. MERLE Nikolaus -[M640]- Age: 17 -From: Zichydorf -DtAr: Tuesday, 6 Sep 1910 - To: St Paul, MN -Via: Rot/NY -Ship: Rotterdam -Note: Born in Zichydorf. Mother, Katharine Merle, lives in Stefansfeld. Going to join father, Mathias Merle. Last residence, Stefansfeld [*2 Jul 1893, son of Mathias Merle, ex Stefansfeld and Katharine Milesz, ex Stefansfeld]. MERLE Nikolaus -[M640]- Age: 19 -From: Stefansfeld -DtAr: Friday, 2 Oct 1903 - To: Wyandotte, MI -Via: Bre/Bal -Ship: Main MERLE Nikolaus -[M640]- Age: 33 -From: Sartscha -DtAr: Wednesday, 3 Jul 1907 - To: St Louis, MO -Via: Ant/NY -Ship: Vaderland -Note: Accompanied by wife, Marianna 28, both born in Sartscha. Brother, Jakob Merle, lives in Sartscha. Going to join bro-in-law, Nikolaus Bader. MERLE Nikolaus -[M640]- Age: 48 -From: Stefansfeld -DtAr: Sunday, 20 Mar 1910 - To: Wyandotte, MI -Via: Bre/NY -Ship: Oldenburg -Note: Accompanied by wife, Katharina 44 and kids, Nikolaus 15 and Margaret 11, all born in Stefansfeld. Brother, Karl Merle, lives in Stefansfeld. Going to join son-in-law, Nikolaus Barotle. MERLE Nikolaus -[M640]- Age: 62 -From: Stefansfeld -DtAr: Wednesday, 3 Jun 1914 - To: Detroit, MI -Via: Ham/NY -Ship: Imperator -Note: Born in Stefansfeld. Accompanied by wife, Katharine 57, born in Ernsthausen. Brother, K Merle, lives in Stefansfeld. Going to join son, J Merle.MERLE Nikolaus -[M640]- Age: 17 -From: Zichydorf -DtAr: Tuesday, 6 Sep 1910 - To: St Paul, MN -Via: Rot/NY -Ship: Rotterdam -Note: Born in Zichydorf. Mother, Katharine Merle, lives in Stefansfeld. Going to join father, Mathias Merle. Last residence, Stefansfeld [*2 Jul 1893, son of Mathias Merle, ex Stefansfeld and Katharine Milesz, ex Stefansfeld Fran Matkovich -----Original Message----- From: DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eve via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 2:39 PM To: DVHH-L Administrator <[email protected]> Cc: DVHH Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DVHH] ECK & MERLE families from STEPHANSFELD I have replied to Stephanie and don't know how I can help her. This village is not part of my research and I have not done any research in Michigan as my family's and my husband's are outside of Michigan. So perhaps there is someone with info on the list of either this village or a good Michigan source of info. Eve On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:09 AM, DVHH-L Administrator via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES <[email protected]> wrote: > Posting for Stephanie (Leach) Basar. > > Darlene > DVHH Email List Administrator > > > I am requesting help from Eva Brown because I am born and raised in MI > (Ann > Arbor) and so is my husband (Birmingham). We still live here. > > I just received a 'Stephansfeld Famillienbuch' CD which was very > helpful for our Merle genealogy but our Nicklaus Merle (b. 1861) was > married to Katherina Eck (b. 1856-1857) and I cannot find her or her > sister Elizabeth or their parents. Nicklaus and Katherina (Eck) Merle > came to Detroit area in early 1900's with a son Nicholas and daughter > Margareta. Margaret married Anton Frank and their daughter Marjorie b. > 1927 married George Basar b.1925 (Croatian) and they were my in laws. > > If there is information that would be helpful in finding the Eck side > of family I will appreciate it. The grand daughter of Katherina and > Nic Merle is still living at age almost 96 and sharp with > memory/history and can identify photos but doesn't know the parents > names of Katherina and Elizabeth. She thinks Elizabeth married a Jacob > Truitt and was in St. Louis Missouri at some time. > > I have run a DNA test through Ancestry.com for my husband and it has > been helpful in finding others related but only one has the Eck name > in their ancestry and are at a roadblock, too. > > Thank you for any assistance! - Stephanie (Leach) Basar > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Syrmia Regional Coordinator http://www.dvhh.org/syrmia ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Listers, Can someone with access to the Stader Sammelwerk please check for the name Kreutzer? I would be interested in all permutations (Kreutzer, Creuzer, etc...) and immigration at any time. Of particular interest is Johann Kreutzer who supposedly immigrated in 1746. Wife perhaps Franziska, sons perhaps Valentin and Johann Georg. Thanks, Mike

Adam Estermann was born January 31, 1886 Son of Peter Estermann ( March 14, 1855 - Oct. 18 1897) and Anna Marie Franziska Noheimer ( Oct 1, 1854 - Aug 25,1935) Married May 21 1878 - He was one of 3 Children. He was the only child to survive childhood. Record shows he came to america on February 24 1906 and September 9, 1906 Peter Estermann was the Son of Peter Estermann Oct 22, 1833 and AnnaMarie Kuppel Sept 15 1831 - Married Dec 9, 1852 He was one of 5 Children Richard

Hello James,   there is a newer family book of Bruckenau that covers the time from 1730 to 2013, see: http://www.banatbooks.com/FamilienbuchList.htm that is still available to buy: Publisher: HOG Bruckenau; Nürnberg, 2013. Price 80 €, plus 40 € for North American shipping.  More Information: Manfred Loris [email protected][mailto:[email protected]] But as Mr. Schreiber offers look up in the book you can get the information there   Regards Anni   Gesendet: Montag, 24. Juli 2017 um 16:27 Uhr Von: "Nick Tullius via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES" <[email protected]> An: "'James Kleven'" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [DVHH] Esterman Family Hello James, According to my records, there is a Familienbuch Bruckenau 1760-1852 by Martin Schmidt. I do not have a copy, and I do not know if copies can still be found or if updates are available. It may be a good idea to send your e-mail to the entire DVHH List at [email protected] as some List member(s) may have useful information. For general information (in English) you could take a look at http://www.dvhh.org/banat_villages/village-list.htm[http://www.dvhh.org/banat_villages/village-list.htm] and specifically at http://www.dvhh.org/bruckenau/[http://www.dvhh.org/bruckenau/] A very extensive website in German is http://www.bruckenau.de/[http://www.bruckenau.de/], that includes history, books (such as “Bruckenau, eine Banater Heckengemeinde an der Bergsau”) and a Standard German-to-Schwowisch (dialect of Bruckenau) dictionary at http://www.bruckenau.de/Mundart/mundart.html[http://www.bruckenau.de/Mundart/mundart.html] Through the German website you could probably establish contact with knowledgeable Bruckenauers (the young people generally know some English). Good luck in your research! Nick Tullius http://www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen/[http://www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen/] -----Original Message----- From: DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Kleven via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 03:54 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Esterman Family Greetings from San Francisco, I am descendant of the Esterman family from Bruckenau that settled in NYC. My great grandmother, Anna Esterman, died last year at 104. However, she was an Esterman marriage. Her father, my great-grandfather, was Charles Esterman. His father was Adam Ester man who was born in Bruckenau in 1886. His father Peter, was born in the 1850s. I don’t have much information that goes back further than that. In some of my research I have come across records of Germans from the Banat with the name Esterman who emigrated to Chicago. I am not sure if they are related to the same Esterman family I am descended from, but the name is not very common and I assume so. In any event, I see that you had been collecting information on descendants of volksdeutsche and I thought I’d reach out. Unfortunately, the names has now died out in my family with the death of my great-grandmother but there are many of us still under other names in New York (I am the only one who moved to California). My aunt maintains most of the family records including our family bible, records, and a few photographs that my great-great grandfather brought with him from Bruckenau. I have come across a few other Estermans who were more assimilated. They thought they were Hungarians, but I tried to explain how it is easy to make that mistake by passenger lists that list country of origin as Hungary or Austria-Hungary and sometimes Romania depending upon the year of emigration and where the Banat was politically at the time. When they shared their documents it shows the town names with the German spellings, so I assume they were also Germans from Banat. I hope this email finds you well. Best regards, James ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This time with text ! Hello Deborah,   there is a familybook for Schag from Herbert Mayer, a member of the AKdFF,   It might be possible, you can still buy one by the author, see here: http://www.banatbooks.com/FamilienbuchList.htm Schag & Paratz Herbert Mayer Available 80 € plus shipping costs Published by HOG Schag und HOG Paratz; Mannheim, 2013. To order, contact: H. Mayer,  Opitzstr.18, 68307  Mannheim, Germany email: [email protected][mailto:[email protected]]   Regards Anni       Gesendet: Montag, 24. Juli 2017 um 19:45 Uhr Von: "flaowens--- via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES" <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Betreff: [DVHH] Schag Hello all, Does anyone know if records exist for a small village, now in Romania, called Schag ? Was a larger village the record - keeper for this village ? The village name variations according to DVHH village list Schag (German) Temessag (Hungarian) Sag-Timis, Romania (Official) Thank you, Deborah Owens ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you for this great news, Nick !! Deborah -----Original Message----- From: Nick Tullius via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES <[email protected]> To: donauschwaben-villages <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jul 24, 2017 6:16 pm Subject: Re: [DVHH] Schag Hello Deborah,According to records, the Familiebuch Schag & Paratz (1845-1905?) by Herbert Mayer is available for 80 € plus shipping. It was published by HOG Schag und HOG Paratz; Mannheim, 2013.To order, contact: Herbert Mayer, Opitzstr.18, 68307 Mannheim, Germanyemail: [email protected] Heimatbuch Schag by Franziska Graf, and Jakob Schmidt, 1992, Ippesheim, AGK-Verlag. 645 Pages includes history, typical lists of first settlers, townfolks who left Schag, World War I and World War II war victims and deportees to Russia.These books are often out of print, but can be found at antiquarian stores.Good luck!Nick Tullius -----Original Message-----From: DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of flaowens--- via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGESSent: Monday, July 24, 2017 13:45To: [email protected]: [DVHH] SchagHello all,Does anyone know if records exist for a small village, now in Romania, called Schag ? Was a larger village the record - keeper for this village ?The village name variations according to DVHH village list Schag (German) Temessag (Hungarian) Sag-Timis, Romania (Official)Thank you,Deborah Owens-------------------------------To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message-------------------------------To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have the Schag books but I'm on vacation and will be away from my home until mid-September. I can do lookups for you when I return, if you can wait that long. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8+. -------- Original message --------From: Annamaria Lorenz via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES <[email protected]> Date: 7/25/17 6:51 AM (GMT-06:00) To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DVHH] Schag This time with text ! Hello Deborah,   there is a familybook for Schag from Herbert Mayer, a member of the AKdFF,   It might be possible, you can still buy one by the author, see here: http://www.banatbooks.com/FamilienbuchList.htm Schag & Paratz Herbert Mayer Available 80 € plus shipping costs Published by HOG Schag und HOG Paratz; Mannheim, 2013. To order, contact: H. Mayer,  Opitzstr.18, 68307  Mannheim, Germany email: [email protected][mailto:[email protected]]   Regards Anni       Gesendet: Montag, 24. Juli 2017 um 19:45 Uhr Von: "flaowens--- via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES" <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Betreff: [DVHH] Schag Hello all, Does anyone know if records exist for a small village, now in Romania, called Schag ? Was a larger village the record - keeper for this village ? The village name variations according to DVHH village list Schag (German) Temessag (Hungarian) Sag-Timis, Romania (Official) Thank you, Deborah Owens ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

For future reference, I have a copy of the Bruckenau family book 1730 - 2013 if anyone is interested. Sincerely, Richard Schreiber

Deborah, There is a Familienbuch available for Schag. See: Schag & Paratz Herbert Mayer Available 80 € plus shipping costs Published by HOG Schag und HOG Paratz; Mannheim, 2013. To order, contact:* *H. Mayer, Opitzstr.18, 68307 Mannheim, Germany email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Robert Evensen On 7/24/2017 1:45 PM, flaowens--- via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES wrote: > Hello all, > > Does anyone know if records exist for a small village, now in Romania, called Schag ? Was a larger village the record - keeper for this village ? > > The village name variations according to DVHH village list > Schag (German) > Temessag (Hungarian) > Sag-Timis, Romania (Official) > > Thank you, > Deborah Owens > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I have replied to Stephanie and don't know how I can help her. This village is not part of my research and I have not done any research in Michigan as my family's and my husband's are outside of Michigan. So perhaps there is someone with info on the list of either this village or a good Michigan source of info. Eve On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:09 AM, DVHH-L Administrator via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES <[email protected]> wrote: > Posting for Stephanie (Leach) Basar. > > Darlene > DVHH Email List Administrator > > > I am requesting help from Eva Brown because I am born and raised in MI (Ann > Arbor) and so is my husband (Birmingham). We still live here. > > I just received a 'Stephansfeld Famillienbuch' CD which was very helpful > for our Merle genealogy but our Nicklaus Merle (b. 1861) was married to > Katherina Eck (b. 1856-1857) and I cannot find her or her sister Elizabeth > or their parents. Nicklaus and Katherina (Eck) Merle came to Detroit area > in early 1900's with a son Nicholas and daughter Margareta. Margaret > married Anton Frank and their daughter Marjorie b. 1927 married George > Basar b.1925 (Croatian) and they were my in laws. > > If there is information that would be helpful in finding the Eck side of > family I will appreciate it. The grand daughter of Katherina and Nic Merle > is still living at age almost 96 and sharp with memory/history and can > identify photos but doesn't know the parents names of Katherina and > Elizabeth. She thinks Elizabeth married a Jacob Truitt and was in St. Louis > Missouri at some time. > > I have run a DNA test through Ancestry.com for my husband and it has been > helpful in finding others related but only one has the Eck name in their > ancestry and are at a roadblock, too. > > Thank you for any assistance! - Stephanie (Leach) Basar > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Syrmia Regional Coordinator http://www.dvhh.org/syrmia

Hello Deborah, According to records, the Familiebuch Schag & Paratz (1845-1905?) by Herbert Mayer is available for 80 € plus shipping. It was published by HOG Schag und HOG Paratz; Mannheim, 2013. To order, contact: Herbert Mayer, Opitzstr.18, 68307 Mannheim, Germany email: [email protected] A Heimatbuch Schag by Franziska Graf, and Jakob Schmidt, 1992, Ippesheim, AGK-Verlag. 645 Pages includes history, typical lists of first settlers, townfolks who left Schag, World War I and World War II war victims and deportees to Russia. These books are often out of print, but can be found at antiquarian stores. Good luck! Nick Tullius -----Original Message----- From: DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of flaowens--- via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 13:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Schag Hello all, Does anyone know if records exist for a small village, now in Romania, called Schag ? Was a larger village the record - keeper for this village ? The village name variations according to DVHH village list Schag (German) Temessag (Hungarian) Sag-Timis, Romania (Official) Thank you, Deborah Owens ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello all, Does anyone know if records exist for a small village, now in Romania, called Schag ? Was a larger village the record - keeper for this village ? The village name variations according to DVHH village list Schag (German) Temessag (Hungarian) Sag-Timis, Romania (Official) Thank you, Deborah Owens

Hello James, According to my records, there is a Familienbuch Bruckenau 1760-1852 by Martin Schmidt. I do not have a copy, and I do not know if copies can still be found or if updates are available. It may be a good idea to send your e-mail to the entire DVHH List at [email protected] as some List member(s) may have useful information. For general information (in English) you could take a look at http://www.dvhh.org/banat_villages/village-list.htm and specifically at http://www.dvhh.org/bruckenau/ A very extensive website in German is http://www.bruckenau.de/, that includes history, books (such as “Bruckenau, eine Banater Heckengemeinde an der Bergsau”) and a Standard German-to-Schwowisch (dialect of Bruckenau) dictionary at http://www.bruckenau.de/Mundart/mundart.html Through the German website you could probably establish contact with knowledgeable Bruckenauers (the young people generally know some English). Good luck in your research! Nick Tullius http://www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen/ -----Original Message----- From: DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Kleven via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 03:54 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Esterman Family Greetings from San Francisco, I am descendant of the Esterman family from Bruckenau that settled in NYC. My great grandmother, Anna Esterman, died last year at 104. However, she was an Esterman marriage. Her father, my great-grandfather, was Charles Esterman. His father was Adam Ester man who was born in Bruckenau in 1886. His father Peter, was born in the 1850s. I don’t have much information that goes back further than that. In some of my research I have come across records of Germans from the Banat with the name Esterman who emigrated to Chicago. I am not sure if they are related to the same Esterman family I am descended from, but the name is not very common and I assume so. In any event, I see that you had been collecting information on descendants of volksdeutsche and I thought I’d reach out. Unfortunately, the names has now died out in my family with the death of my great-grandmother but there are many of us still under other names in New York (I am the only one who moved to California). My aunt maintains most of the family records including our family bible, records, and a few photographs that my great-great grandfather brought with him from Bruckenau. I have come across a few other Estermans who were more assimilated. They thought they were Hungarians, but I tried to explain how it is easy to make that mistake by passenger lists that list country of origin as Hungary or Austria-Hungary and sometimes Romania depending upon the year of emigration and where the Banat was politically at the time. When they shared their documents it shows the town names with the German spellings, so I assume they were also Germans from Banat. I hope this email finds you well. Best regards, James ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Posting for Stephanie (Leach) Basar. Darlene DVHH Email List Administrator I am requesting help from Eva Brown because I am born and raised in MI (Ann Arbor) and so is my husband (Birmingham). We still live here. I just received a 'Stephansfeld Famillienbuch' CD which was very helpful for our Merle genealogy but our Nicklaus Merle (b. 1861) was married to Katherina Eck (b. 1856-1857) and I cannot find her or her sister Elizabeth or their parents. Nicklaus and Katherina (Eck) Merle came to Detroit area in early 1900's with a son Nicholas and daughter Margareta. Margaret married Anton Frank and their daughter Marjorie b. 1927 married George Basar b.1925 (Croatian) and they were my in laws. If there is information that would be helpful in finding the Eck side of family I will appreciate it. The grand daughter of Katherina and Nic Merle is still living at age almost 96 and sharp with memory/history and can identify photos but doesn't know the parents names of Katherina and Elizabeth. She thinks Elizabeth married a Jacob Truitt and was in St. Louis Missouri at some time. I have run a DNA test through Ancestry.com for my husband and it has been helpful in finding others related but only one has the Eck name in their ancestry and are at a roadblock, too. Thank you for any assistance! - Stephanie (Leach) Basar