I am afraid I don't have alot on the FINK side yet I have been working on the ROGERS side. All I have is a George FINK who married a Levina who had a daughter named Martha Jane FINK (born in Hamilton Co. Tennessee) who married a George Stephen ROGERS.

Was yours a test also?

Yea are we sub'ed still ? <VBG> Hi Dan...we just dont' have any action on this list. :( I can't find any thing on my line of FINK. I have no idea where she came from so I have no idea where to look for her and her family. What a mess. Marcie in IN. -----Original Message----- From: Dan <wb@wvi.com> To: FINK-L@rootsweb.com <FINK-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 10:57 AM Subject: [FINK] RE:TEST >Just testing to see if I am still subbed here ? >Dan > > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >

I have just started to research my family line so I don't have alot of info. Here is what I know: Julia Fink was born 11/23/1883 and I'm not sure when, but she married Jacob J. Furler and they lived in Allentown, PA. Julia's parents were Hiram Fink and Rosa Wotring. I'm not sure when they were born, but I figure probably in the late 1850's or sometime in the 1860's. According to Julia's obituary (she died 11/23/1961) her parents were already deceased and Julia was born in Allentown. If you have any connections, please let me know. Thank you, Lori

Marcie, Give some names if you can. I have a Laura Gerard Fink that has relatives in Indiana. Laura died in 1932 in Ohio. Any possibilities? Joan H jhuecker@aol.com

Just testing to see if I am still subbed here ? Dan

Hi listers, I am researching my FINK family in Switzerland. are there any outthere with this same line.? Johann Fink m Rosina Hubler Urs Fink 1761 m Maria Mollet Urs Fink 1806 m Elisabeth Mollet Elisabeth Fink 1841 Anna Maria Fink m Fritz Houselmann Anna Maria Fink 1846 m Benediks Marti Benediks Fink 1802 m Elisabeth Henzi Elisabeth Fink 1839 Johann Fink 1840 m Anna Maria Stuber just a start, there is more. please contact me Chickadee2@aol.com CHICKADEE2@AOL.COM researching: BEGLEY, BUHOFER,BALL,BLAUTH, BRASSINGTON, BLOOD,CHRIST,CHRISTEN, CLAY,COXON, COATES,CARTLIDGE,CARTWRIGHT,DUNCAN,ELDER,FINK,FOSKETT,HUBLER,HOUSELMANN,HENZI, LIEM,LALOR, MALLOY, MOLLET,MARTI,MULLER,MAGLIN,MILLS,PERNA,PIERSON, RUFER,STUBER,SCHUMACHER,SPAHR,SANER,SCHMIDT,SMITH,SCHINDLER,STERCHI,WILLIAMSON ,YOUNG,ZURCHER.

Hi, I am new to the list. I am looking for William FINK born ca. 1819. He married Catharine HALL HUNSICKER in Summit Co. OH. I believe it was the second marriage for both. Marriage in Summit Co. 1864.-- 1880 Akron, Summit Co. census shows William as a Retired Groceryman. Born in Germany. I would like to know more about the children of William and Catharine. Any other ideas or information would be most welcome! Thanks, Gayle Winslow thewins@prodigy.net

Can anyone give more info or scan through an obituary on this person? Am interested in the middle name -- need to know who survivors and/or parents are, if possible. Thanks in advance. EARL COLLINS RICE, 75, of Springfield, died at midnight Sunday in his residence. Visitation 5-8 p.m. Tuesday in the Jones-Kenney-Zechman Funeral Home; service there at 11 a.m. Wednesday; burial in Rose Hill Burial Park. Joan Collins Huecker jhuecker@aol.com

Hi, Gerry, wonder what part of the country your early Finks lived in? My Finks were from Greenbrier Co., West Virginia, but I don't go back very far. I have an inkling that they came down through the Shenandoah valley general area, as all my other Greenbrier ancestors did. Carolyn Anderson Clark

Listers, I am looking for these names in my family tree. Any descendants, or anyone who may have any information, please contact me. Johann Fink and Rosina Hubler Gossliwil, Solothurn, Switzerland Urs Fink 1761 and Maria Mollet 1766 Urs Fink 1806 and Elisabeth Mollet 1813 Elisabeth Fink Anna Maria Fink 1846 and Fritz Houselmann m. 1877 Anna Barbara Fink 1850 and Benediks Marti m. 18876 Benediks Fink 1802 and Elisabeth Henzi 1808 Johann Fink 1840 and Anna Maria Stuber 1840 Adam Stuber and Elisabeth Rufer m. 1822 Alexander Fink and Louise Spahr m 1888 Alfred Fink and Carolina Rosina Maglin m 1888 Johann Fink and Henriette Christ m . 1897 Josef and Regina Saner 1825 Gerrie Lee Fink in NJ CHICKADEE2@AOL.COM researching: BEGLEY, BUHOFER,BALL,BLAUTH, BRASSINGTON, BLOOD,CHRIST,CHRISTEN, CLAY,COXON, COATES,CARTLIDGE,CARTWRIGHT,DUNCAN,ELDER,FINK,FOSKETT,HUBLER,HOUSELMANN,HENZI, LIEM, MOLLET,MARTI,MULLER,MAGLIN,MILLS,RUFER,STUBER,SCHUMACHER,SPAHR,SANER,SCHMIDT,S MITH,SCHINDLER,STERCHI,WILLIAMSON,YOUNG,ZURCHER.

Hello all members, I will update this as soon as I re-type all the info. I recieve and I'll send it back for all to see. Thank you for your time to read and add to. Marcie in IN. >Male & Female Nicknames (Source Unknown) > >Nickname Christian Name(s) >Bell, Bella, Belle Arabelle, Anabelle, Isabel, Isabella, Rosabel >Bess, Bessie Elizabeth >Beth Elizabeth >Betsy, Betty Elizabeth >Bitsy Elizabeth >Bob, Bobby Robert >Cindy Cinthia, Cynthia, Lucinda >Daisy Margaret >Delia Adelia, Adele, Cordelia >Dick Richard >Dobbin Robert >Dode, Dody Dorothy, Theodore, Theodorick >Dora Dorothy, Eudora, Theodora >Ed, Eddie, Eddy Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edwin, Edwina >Effie, Effy Euphemia >Eliza Elizabeth >Greta Margaret, Margaretha >Ella, Ellie Eleanor, Elenora >Fannie, Fanny Frances >Frankie Frances (female), Francis (male), >Franklin >Genie Eugenia >Hal Harold, Henry >Hank Henry >Harry Henry >Hattie Harriet(t) >Hettie Esther, Henrietta, Hester >Jack, Jackie John >Jamie James, Jameson >Jenny Jane, Janet, Jeanette, Jennett, Virginia >Jim, Jimmy James >Jock John >John, Johnnie, Johnny John >Kate, Katie, Katy Katherine Kathie Katherine >Kit, Kitty Katherine >Kay Katherine >Lena Angelina, Helena, Magdalena, Paulina, Selena, et al >Lettie Letitia >Libby Elizabeth >Lina Angelina, Helena, Magdalena, Paulina, Selena, et al >Lisa, Lise Elizabeth >Liz, Lizzie Elizabeth >Lucy Lucinda >Madge Margaret >Maggie Margaret >Maisie Margaret, Mary >Mamie Mary >Marty, Martie Martha >Mattie Martha >May Mary >Midge Margaret >Meg, Megan Margaret >Meta Margaret >Millie, Milly Amelia, Mildred >Moll, Mollie, Molly Mary >Nell, Nellie, Nelly Eleanor, Elenora, Ellen, Helen >Nora Elenore, Elenora, Honora, Honoria >Ollie Olive, Olivia, Oliver >Patsy, Patty Patricia, Patience, Martha >Peg, Peggy Margaret >Penny Penelope >Polly Mary >Rich, Richy Richard >Rob, Robbie, Robby Robert >Robin Robert >Sadie Sarah >Sallie, Sally Sarah >Sammy Samuel, Samson, Samantha >Sukie, Suchie, Suchy Susan, Susanna, Susannah >Tad Theodore, Theodorick >Ted, Teddy Edward >Theo Theodore, Theodorick >Tilly Temperance >Tillie Matilda, Mathilda >Tina Christina >Trina Catharine >Vicy Lewvisa >Winnie Winefred, Winifred (both male and female) > > >============================== >Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > >

Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: "Save Ohio's Civil War Battlefield : Buffington Island " hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.petitiononline.com/Buff/petition.html I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider signing yourself. Best wishes, Joan Huecker

Hello listers, looking for information on the above family names, in switzerland. Gossliwil area originally. Time period 1700's to 1900's. If you recognize these families, please contact Gerrie in NJ at: CHICKADEE2@AOL.COM researching: BEGLEY, BUHOFER,BALL,BLAUTH, BRASSINGTON, BLOOD,CHRIST,CHRISTEN, CLAY,COXON, COATES,CARTLIDGE,CARTWRIGHT,DUNCAN,ELDER,FINK,FOSKETT,HUBLER,HOUSELMANN,HENZI, LIEM, MOLLET,MARTI,MULLER,MAGLIN,MILLS,RUFER,STUBER,SCHUMACHER,SPAHR,SANER,SCHMIDT,S MITH,SCHINDLER,STERCHI,WILLIAMSON,YOUNG,ZURCHER.

hi list, i too have a jacob fink and a daniel fink in my family from solothurn switzerland. jacob lived with urs fink according to census records. i have a daniel fink married to an ann knoerr, any relation? lori fink of pa usa

Nancy, I have a Jacob FINK who was born 7 August 1819 [from Probate Records] someplace in PA [from 1850 Census]. He married 1) 10 Aug 1843 Catharine WOOLEY [b. NY 30 Oct 1821 d. IN 23 Dec 1851] daughter of Hugh WOOLEY and his wife Hannah in Marion County, OH and 2) Mary SKILLEN [b. OH 16 Dec 1827 d. IN 15 Oct 1899] the widow of Jacob STRALHEIM and the daughter of Benjamin SKILLEN b Union County, PA. Could this Jacob be the son of Daniel FINK Sr and Elizabeth Ann WELTZEL? I could not tell the time frame of Daniel & Elizabeth. Dusti

Saw this in the Sidney Ohio newspaper and thought it worth mentioning. Sorry it is so long but please read it in its entirety: Ohio's only Civil War battlefield (and only one of three on Northern soil) is about to be destroyed at the hands of a sand and gravel company. Buffington Island Battlefield is largely owned by the Shelley Materials of Thornville, Ohio, and company has filed and received permits to operate a gravel pit on the battlefield because Ohio has no historic preservation laws. The battle saved the North from further invasions when 8000 Union soldiers stopped 2200 Confederate raiders after doing huge damage across Ohio. It is the only battlefield where two future presidents - Hayes & McKinley -- participated. Between 54 and 105 US soldiers are buried in an unmarked, unlocated grave on the battlefield. Despite the fact that technology exists to locate these veterans, neither the gravel company nor the state of Ohio will do so. Currently, Ohio law does not recognize human remains after 125 years of burial, so these soliders do not count in the eyes of the state. If more info is needed contact John Rawdon, 3471 Ellen Drive, Akron, Ohio or Margaret Parker, president, Meigs County Pioneer & Historical Society, PO Box 145, Pomeroy, Ohio 45769. Email addresses: meigscountyhistoricalsociety@dragonbbs.com kdashley2@hotmail.com (Keith Ashley) Please visit the petition to save the battlefield at http://www.petitiononline.com/Buff/petition.html. Also visit the Saving Buffington island Web Site at http://www.geocities.com/buffington_isle/. Thanks!

I have decided to send out the whole of the family letter I have in hopes it may help others or possibly help me out. The letter is from Emma JOHNSTON DAVEY living in California at the time to Marie JOHNSTONE DOMINY in Indiana. Both are aunts in my line. It was probably written after 1920, although it was not dated. I have followed the letter with the pieces of genealogy I sorted out from this and other sources. The original had no punctuation whatsoever. I have found our family name in various forms from JOHNSON, JOHNSTON and finally JOHNSTONE. "You were a little late writing but am so glad you could go to see your brothers and sisters. You wanted to know what nationality we are. American of course. Your maternal great grandmother and suppose your great grandfather was of the same nationality. They came from Holland not they, but their ancestors and were Revolution stock some of them leaving their horse and plows in the field and going away to fight one of the battles. Your great grandmother was left a widow with seven little children the youngest only 7 days old on a farm in Ohio. She raised them all but one and gave them, for those days, a good education , raising flax and wool to make them clothes, weaving and dying both wool and flax. When I was twenty (1870), my sister Mary and I make a visit to the old farm and saw the old log house then standing but my grandmother was living in a frame house on the same farm with her son Daniel. He had 3 daughters and one son, and what a lovely visit we had! Your great grandmother's family name was Ganter or Gunter, I think the first. Her name after marriage was Fink. The farm where we visited was in Canfield, Mahoing(?) Co, Ohio. Your grandmother and grandfather were married in Canfield and their marriage license is, I still suppose, in the courthouse. Your great uncle George Fink was a 49er and went from Canfield to California in one of the famous covered wagons. He was six months going across at the time of the great gold excitement. He never came home but always wrote to my mother until a few years before her death. In the last letter enclosed was this ad I am sending you. How little he thought that after many years it would travel across the country. You were so good sending the pictures back that I will send this for you to return. He was a bachelor Johnson on your grandfather's side. Your great grandmother's name was Perry, Catherine Perry, but your great grandfather's name I am a little mixed up on for one was Henry and the other Daniel. Both were family names and both had two sons by that name. I forgot to tell you that your great grandmother Fink's given name was Susan. Your Johnson ancestors came from England and were given much land on the Western Reserve in Ohio. They owned land in the east, out where cannot remember, but were well thought of and when coming from England were given twice as much land as the minister because they were blacksmiths and were considered more necessary in the country. If I remember the land was cow pasture. This grandmother Johnson (my grandmother) had fifteen children but land on the Western Reserve was not very valuable then. I have a friend in Cleveland who still owns some of the land. Her grandmother came all the way from Connecticut on horseback, the saddle now in the museum in Cleveland. How I loved to listen to the stories of the settling of the new country. Think I have somewhere carefully put away a picture of the Johnson coat of arms with their history. If I find it will send it to you but did not suppose anyone would ever care for it. The Johnson family lot in Woodland Cemetery is in Section 40. If there is anything I have not told you, ask me. If you think your sister would care to read this letter, you may send it to her if she will be kind to consider it answer to the one she wrote me. Letter writing is hard for I know of so little to write of not because I would not like to write to her and I would love to get a letter from her. But please send her my ad. Not long ago I gave away a family bible that had been in the Davey family 150 years with the dates of their births and deaths. They brought it from England. Allie was the only heir, and she would not have it. Like myself she could not lift it around and no room for it in our little house. I gave it to a friend who was so kind when I had the broken limb. He had a large collection of interesting things said he would rather have that than a farm. It was a very interesting thing, illustrated with wood cuts but too heavy for a woman to lift. They can afford a room and cases for these things. Keep your letter. Some day you may want to refer to it. It has no money value for there is none in the family unless your side is the lucky possessors. With much love, believe this is the day of the birthday dinner. I wish I were there. Keeping house for one is not very interesting." >From this, census and Bible records, and help from Jocelyn, I have the following: Hiram JOHNSTON (JOHNSON) born about 1822 married Anna Maria FINK (b.1827) on Aug 6 1849 in Canfield, OH. They had children: Emma born 1850 in Ohio, George born 1857 in Coldwater, Michigan, Carra born NY??, and Mary born 1852 in OH. I believe Hiram's parents may be Henry(?) JOHNSTON and Catherine PERRY from the letter, but I have not been able to verify this anywhere. He may have had brothers, Daniel and Henry. Anna Maria FINK's parents were Daniel FINK, Jr. and Mary Susannah KENTNEY(sp? born 1789 in PA). Both died in Canfield, Mahoning County, OH. Other siblings possibly: George (the 49er mentioned in letter), Mary Susannah, Daniel and Henry from will info from Jocelyn. Daniel FINK, Sr. married Elizabeth Ann WELTZEL both of PA according to will and Rev War records for Daniel Sr. Daniel Sr. served in Northampton Co. Rangers, PA. They had other children: Barbara, Jacob Catherine, Molly, Susannah and John. Any help on any of these lines would be appreciated. Nancy Johnstone Ratay, Denver CO

List members: This was on another list and thought it might be of interest to some of you. If anyone can furnish anymore info, please let me know. The family of Paulus MICHAEL arrived in Baltimore by 1835, on to Somerset Co PA and to Darke Co OH. I don't know when he arrived in Darke Co, but he had a son John. Paulus' wife, Elizabeth FINK, may have died in PA. He brought to OH John, Barbara, Aaron and George. The latter two reported to be twins. Aaron MICHAEL had a child b 1859 IL. Paulus MICHAEL may have remarried in OH.

I am searching for any information on the Fink families from Nebraska. Any information would be appreciated. Jamie Fink jjfink@talk21.com