Darlene, Thank you for your persistence! Manfred Roux -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Darlene Dimitrie [mailto:fon.ladee@cogeco.ca] Gesendet: Freitag, 1. August 2014 22:12 An: Manfred Roux Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: [DVHH] Schowe: Looking for ancestors of Ludwig Hetzel If I don't hear from Kathi in a week or so, I'll call and remind her. Darlene Manfred Roux wrote: > Hallo, Darlene, > > Thank you very much for your efforts. I also believe that these > families are probably not directly related, but there lived a lot of > Hetzels in Schowe; most of them lived indeed in Neu-Schowe which is > just another part of the same village. Anyway, thanks, and I will be > looking towards contacts in Cleveland who hopefully are more closely > related. > > Manfred Roux > 71067 Sindelfingen > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Darlene Dimitrie [mailto:fon.ladee@cogeco.ca] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2014 01:55 > An: Manfred Roux > Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: [DVHH] Schowe: Looking for ancestors of > Ludwig Hetzel > > Oops, got that slightly wrong - it wasn't the bands who were thought > not to be related, > > It was the two Hetzel lines - the one that Jacob Hetzel is from and > the other one that his wife Katharina Febel is from. > > Darlene > > > > Darlene Dimitrie wrote: >> I talked to Jack's wife today; she didn't seem to recognize any of > the >> names, although she did say there were 2 musical bands there from > the >> Hetzel family. She says that they weren't related, but I figure > they >> were, it probably was that it was several generations ago. Her >> father-in-law also had a band in Germany. I'm going to read the >> booklet again to see if it says where they lived in Germany. >> >> I asked her to see if Jack would talk to you on the phone; she will, > >> but she also said that there is a relative named Adam Hetzel, who >> lives in the Cleveland, Ohio area and is about 80 years old. She >> thinks he might have more information and will contact him to see if > he will talk to you. >> >> She did say that her husband's family was from Neu Schowe, not Alt >> Schowe, but I figure if it was like my family, we were scattered >> throughout a number of towns that were in close proximity. >> >> Sorry this is taking so long, but I'm hopeful that Adam may remember > >> more - he would be about 12 years older (born about 1934) than your >> Ludwig born in 1922. >> >> She also mentioned that they had been to the town in Alsace-Lorraine > >> where the Hetzels originated from - it's a very pretty town near the > >> Rhine and still has many German people in it, although they speak >> French now. >> >> Darlene >> >> >> >> Manfred Roux wrote: >>> Darlene, >>> >>> thanks very much for the wealth of information. If Jack Hetzel > sends >>> me his phone number, I can easily call him - long distance phone >>> calls to North America are included in my rate. >>> >>> Thank you once again! >>> Manfred >>> >>> Manfred Roux >>> Hohenzollernstr 60 >>> 71067 Sindelfingen >>> >>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>> Von: Darlene Dimitrie [mailto:fon.ladee@cogeco.ca] >>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014 19:04 >>> An: Manfred Roux >>> Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: [DVHH] Schowe: Looking for ancestors of >>> Ludwig Hetzel >>> >>> Here's some of the info in the booklet - I printed out a descendant > >>> chart wherever there was a LUDWIG HETZEL - however, as you can see, > >>> the original Peter had a lot of sons, so there could be a lot more >>> LUDWIGs around. >>> >>> There is a Hetzel connection from both Jacob Hetzel's ancestry - > and >>> also from his wife Katharina Febel's ancestry - her mother was a >>> Hetzel. >>> >>> Looks like your LUDWIG is not the brother of Jakob born in 1920, > but >>> after that there is no clear answer - >>> 1) he could be the son of Adam Hetzel and the great-great-uncle of >>> Jack here in Windsor thru his mother Katharina Febel(see > Descendants >>> of Adam Hetzel); >>> 2) he could be the son of George Hetzel and the great-great-uncle > of >>> Jack thru his father Jakob (see Descendants of George Hetzel); >>> 3) he could be another LUDWIG elsewhere in the family tree >>> >>> I've also included a file of the first Peter and all his sons >>> (Descendants of Peter Hetzel). >>> >>> Probably you already have this information, if you have any of the >>> reference books listed on the DVHH SCHOWE site. >>> >>> Our best bet is to be able to talk to Jack Hetzel, here in Windsor > - >>> I called, but they are really busy this week, but they promised to >>> talk to me about this next week - I'm sure they would like to > contact >>> you - I hope that they recognize your wife's name and her father's; > >>> or have other relatives in Germany that might know something. >>> >>> Jack and his mother were reunited with his father in Walchshofen, >>> Germany in 1947, after travelling around to several refugee camps > and >>> went to Canada in 1949. >>> >>> Darlene >>> >>> p.s. the source for the info in the booklet was Jack's Aunt Anna >>> Hetzel and a book, published in 1961 by C. Brückner on Schowe - I >>> suspect Jack's parents contributed info too - the booklet was > written >>> in 1981 as a school project >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- > Darlene > http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D > http://home.cogeco.ca/~lindarlene/Index.html > > -- Darlene http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D http://home.cogeco.ca/~lindarlene/Index.html