I'll share my response with the list, because it is kind of unbelievable :) We knew our ancestor came to the US during the Revolutionary War as a Hessian Soldier. The HETRINA, a listing of the Hessian soldiers, had three "Fischer"s, Henrich, Phillip, and Ludwig. These three were likely brothers or cousins. Each of their regiments were listed as well as their birthdates and hometowns. Our Fischers were from a town in Germany called Oberelsungen. Now for many years, my mom (the true researcher of all of this) knew the town name Oberelsungen, but couldn't find it on a map. Nor did our German friends know where it was. Enter the internet: mapquest found it! Subsequent searches on the internet found Fischers still living in Oberelsungen. We contacted them via snail mail from addresses in phone books and they graciously looked up some church records. The individual I was in contact with was my ninth cousin. Oberelsungen is still a small town, so for us, this was not that difficult. If the area your family is from is large, then it will likely be much more difficult. :/ We hope to go to Oberelsungen some day to complete the research, but even finding this was a dream :) http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVPENDLE/1998-02/0887315716 That page might be your line ;) Susan Doug wrote: > Susan - How did you locate your Fishers in Germany. It doesn't look like my > line is related to yours, but it also originated in Germany with the first > immigrant to what was then the British Colonies in America being a George > Fisher b. abt 1731, d. 1797 in Maryland. This line came from Deinsdorf, > Bayern. I'd love to locate relatives there, but haven't a clue how to go > about it. > > Doug > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Susan Fisher" <sfisher@cs.unc.edu> > To: <FISHER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:50 PM > Subject: Re: [FISHER] Lynn A. Fisher m. Maggie Maria Peninger 1896 NC > > > >>There were two lines of Fishers in Cabarrus Co. at that time. One line >>descends from Solomon Fisher, which I have little information on, and >>another line descends from Ludwig Fischer (became Lewis Fisher once in >>the states). These lines are completely unrelated. >> >>I do not show a "Lynn" in my Fishers (the Lewis line), but from knowing >>the area, I am sure you descend one of these two lines. See >>www.susanfisher.net/Genealogy >> >>This page has the Ludwig Fischer/Lewis Fisher line and also makes >>mention of Solomon Fisher (at some point, Solomon's daughter Anne Fisher >>married a descendent of Lewis, Daniel Fisher). >> >>Perhaps these names will provide a starting point of where to go. There >>is extensive information online done by other of Lewis's descendants. I >> only track the direct family line in most cases. >> >>If you do discover you are related to Lewis, let me know, as i have four >>more generations information that hasn't made it on my webpage yet. I >>located a ninth cousin still living in the village Lewis came from in >>Germany! >> >>Cheers, >>Susan >> >>Jan Robison wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, everyone, >>> >>>I'm new to the list, but not new to research. Got a brickwall I'm >>> > hoping you might be able to help me with: > >>>ISO ancestors of Lynn A. Fisher who married Maggie Maria Peninger in >>> > 1896, Cabarrus County, NC. > >>>They had at least five children: Ethyl, Clyde, Wade, Roy Linn, Lewis >>> > Ray. The data I have shows two sets of twins, but I'm not convinced this > isn't a typo??? > >>>Lewis Ray married Helen Trexler and they had at least two children. Got >>> > their names from her obituary published in the Salisbury Post from February, > 2000. Helen was the child of John L. Trexler and Grace McCombs. They had > at least four children. > >>>Grace was my great grandfather's sister, thus the search. >>> >>>Thanks in advance! >>> >>>Jan Robison >>>Kendallville, Indiana >>> >>>Anybody have any more on this line? >>> >>> >>> >>>--------------------------------- >>>Do you Yahoo!? >>>New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! >>> >>> >>>==== FISHER Mailing List ==== >>> ----------------- >>> This is the FISHER Discussion List >>> You can check the Rootsweb Archives at: >>> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=FISHER >>> for past messages posted to this list >>> ----------------- >>> >>> >>> >> >> >>==== FISHER Mailing List ==== >> ----------------- >> You can unsubscribe by clicking below for the regular list: >> mailto:FISHER-L-request@rootsweb.com >> Click below for the digest list: >> mailto:FISHER-D-request@rootsweb.com >> In the BODY include only one word: unsubscribe >> ----------------- >> >> >> > > > ==== FISHER Mailing List ==== > ----------------- > This is a discussion area for anyone > who has an interest in genealogy or history > related to the FISHER family > The custodian of this List is James Shuman > FISHER-admin@rootsweb.com > ----------------- > >

Just wanted to add a few comments as I have received some comments on this story ;) I originally found our German Fischer cousin nearly three years ago. We had 'oral' histories mentioning that our Fischer was from Oberelsungen, but had no confirmation (and as previously mentioned, could not find it on a map). A well known online Hessian researcher graciously looked up our Ludwig Fischer in the HETRINA - and that along with mapquest - started this search. That was nearly three years ago, but we only received the previous four generations' data in May of this year. We didn't care how long we had to wait, we were so grateful! I just wanted to warn you that it is not an overnight discovery. It can be easy to find them, but you must be patient to get a response :) Our relative had to take off work because the church offices/archives were only open every other Friday. Susan Susan Fisher wrote: > I'll share my response with the list, because it is kind of unbelievable :) > > We knew our ancestor came to the US during the Revolutionary War as a > Hessian Soldier. > > The HETRINA, a listing of the Hessian soldiers, had three "Fischer"s, > Henrich, Phillip, and Ludwig. These three were likely brothers or > cousins. Each of their regiments were listed as well as their > birthdates and hometowns. Our Fischers were from a town in Germany > called Oberelsungen. > > Now for many years, my mom (the true researcher of all of this) knew the > town name Oberelsungen, but couldn't find it on a map. Nor did our > German friends know where it was. > > Enter the internet: mapquest found it! Subsequent searches on the > internet found Fischers still living in Oberelsungen. We contacted them > via snail mail from addresses in phone books and they graciously looked > up some church records. The individual I was in contact with was my > ninth cousin. Oberelsungen is still a small town, so for us, this was > not that difficult. If the area your family is from is large, then it > will likely be much more difficult. :/ > > We hope to go to Oberelsungen some day to complete the research, but > even finding this was a dream :) > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVPENDLE/1998-02/0887315716 > That page might be your line ;) > > Susan > > Doug wrote: > >> Susan - How did you locate your Fishers in Germany. It doesn't look >> like my >> line is related to yours, but it also originated in Germany with the >> first >> immigrant to what was then the British Colonies in America being a George >> Fisher b. abt 1731, d. 1797 in Maryland. This line came from Deinsdorf, >> Bayern. I'd love to locate relatives there, but haven't a clue how >> to go >> about it. >> >> Doug >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Susan Fisher" <sfisher@cs.unc.edu> >> To: <FISHER-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [FISHER] Lynn A. Fisher m. Maggie Maria Peninger 1896 NC >> >> >> >>> There were two lines of Fishers in Cabarrus Co. at that time. One line >>> descends from Solomon Fisher, which I have little information on, and >>> another line descends from Ludwig Fischer (became Lewis Fisher once in >>> the states). These lines are completely unrelated. >>> >>> I do not show a "Lynn" in my Fishers (the Lewis line), but from knowing >>> the area, I am sure you descend one of these two lines. See >>> www.susanfisher.net/Genealogy >>> >>> This page has the Ludwig Fischer/Lewis Fisher line and also makes >>> mention of Solomon Fisher (at some point, Solomon's daughter Anne Fisher >>> married a descendent of Lewis, Daniel Fisher). >>> >>> Perhaps these names will provide a starting point of where to go. There >>> is extensive information online done by other of Lewis's descendants. I >>> only track the direct family line in most cases. >>> >>> If you do discover you are related to Lewis, let me know, as i have four >>> more generations information that hasn't made it on my webpage yet. I >>> located a ninth cousin still living in the village Lewis came from in >>> Germany! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Susan >>> >>> Jan Robison wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi, everyone, >>>> >>>> I'm new to the list, but not new to research. Got a brickwall I'm >>>> >> hoping you might be able to help me with: >> >>>> ISO ancestors of Lynn A. Fisher who married Maggie Maria Peninger in >>>> >> 1896, Cabarrus County, NC. >> >>>> They had at least five children: Ethyl, Clyde, Wade, Roy Linn, Lewis >>>> >> Ray. The data I have shows two sets of twins, but I'm not convinced this >> isn't a typo??? >> >>>> Lewis Ray married Helen Trexler and they had at least two children. >>>> Got >>>> >> their names from her obituary published in the Salisbury Post from >> February, >> 2000. Helen was the child of John L. Trexler and Grace McCombs. They >> had >> at least four children. >> >>>> Grace was my great grandfather's sister, thus the search. >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance! >>>> >>>> Jan Robison >>>> Kendallville, Indiana >>>> >>>> Anybody have any more on this line? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------- >>>> Do you Yahoo!? >>>> New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! >>>> >>>> >>>> ==== FISHER Mailing List ==== >>>> ----------------- >>>> This is the FISHER Discussion List >>>> You can check the Rootsweb Archives at: >>>> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=FISHER >>>> for past messages posted to this list >>>> ----------------- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> ==== FISHER Mailing List ==== >>> ----------------- >>> You can unsubscribe by clicking below for the regular list: >>> mailto:FISHER-L-request@rootsweb.com >>> Click below for the digest list: >>> mailto:FISHER-D-request@rootsweb.com >>> In the BODY include only one word: unsubscribe >>> ----------------- >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ==== FISHER Mailing List ==== >> ----------------- >> This is a discussion area for anyone >> who has an interest in genealogy or history >> related to the FISHER family >> The custodian of this List is James Shuman >> FISHER-admin@rootsweb.com >> ----------------- >> >> > > > > ==== FISHER Mailing List ==== > ----------------- > This is the FISHER Discussion List > You can check the Rootsweb Archives at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=FISHER > for past messages posted to this list > ----------------- >