My husband's 4th great grandmother is Emma Geiger b. 1849 to Joseph Geiger b.1816 born to John Paul b.1723 born to Paul. I am interested in any stories and information that anyone has on this direct line. I have the general data found on the web, thanks to all of you researchers. Are there any family bibles or journals floating around? I am also still interested in learning how to get a copy of the small book, Geigertown. Thanks.

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Do you know where your Ludwig was born? Lorri phillylorri@earthlink.net GEIGER-SMITH-GEARIN-CARROLL ----- Original Message ----- From: <GHan395454@aol.com> To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: [GEIGER] Geiger Family Album > I'm researching a 140 year old photo album connected to the Geiger Family..If > you are connected to this line please e-mail me Ghan395454@aol.com they > lived in Ohio > > > Descendants of Christian Ludwig Geiger > > 1 Christian Ludwig Geiger 1836 - 1902 > .. +Carolina Joann Koerner 1842 - 1901 > ..... 2 Katherine (Kate) Geiger 1860 - 1928 > ......... +Joseph J. Kahlo 1859 - 1899 > ..... 2 William Geiger 1863 - 1917 > ......... +Helena B. Brown 1865 - 1955 > ............. 3 Helen May Geiger 1887 - 1887 > ............. 3 Mildred L. Geiger 1888 - 1978 > ................. +Unknown Lamb > ............. 3 Edna M. Geiger 1891 - 1979 > ................. +Edward H. Miller > ............. 3 Ruth C. Geiger 1895 - > ............. 3 William Christian Geiger 1901 - 1963 > ............. 3 Dorothy Ida Geiger 1901 - > ..... 2 Emma Geiger 1865 - 1938 > ..... 2 Reinhold F. Geiger 1867 - 1870 > ..... 2 Caroline Louise Geiger 1870 - 1872 > ..... 2 Mary Magdaline (Mamie) Geiger 1872 - 1934 > ..... 2 Bertha Martha (Bertie) Geiger 1872 - 1937 > ......... +John G. Schrag 1879 - 1910 > ..... 2 Amanda Sophia Geiger 1876 - 1939 > ......... +Otto Kress 1875 - 1933 > ..... 2 Clara Florence Geiger 1880 - 1920 > ......... +Frank Behne 1878 - 1943 > ............. 3 Caroline Louise Behne 1915 - > ................. +Donald Burton Dunham 1915 - > > > ==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== > Check out our GEIGER homepage at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~geiger/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

I'm researching a 140 year old photo album connected to the Geiger Family..If you are connected to this line please e-mail me Ghan395454@aol.com they lived in Ohio Descendants of Christian Ludwig Geiger 1 Christian Ludwig Geiger 1836 - 1902 .. +Carolina Joann Koerner 1842 - 1901 ..... 2 Katherine (Kate) Geiger 1860 - 1928 ......... +Joseph J. Kahlo 1859 - 1899 ..... 2 William Geiger 1863 - 1917 ......... +Helena B. Brown 1865 - 1955 ............. 3 Helen May Geiger 1887 - 1887 ............. 3 Mildred L. Geiger 1888 - 1978 ................. +Unknown Lamb ............. 3 Edna M. Geiger 1891 - 1979 ................. +Edward H. Miller ............. 3 Ruth C. Geiger 1895 - ............. 3 William Christian Geiger 1901 - 1963 ............. 3 Dorothy Ida Geiger 1901 - ..... 2 Emma Geiger 1865 - 1938 ..... 2 Reinhold F. Geiger 1867 - 1870 ..... 2 Caroline Louise Geiger 1870 - 1872 ..... 2 Mary Magdaline (Mamie) Geiger 1872 - 1934 ..... 2 Bertha Martha (Bertie) Geiger 1872 - 1937 ......... +John G. Schrag 1879 - 1910 ..... 2 Amanda Sophia Geiger 1876 - 1939 ......... +Otto Kress 1875 - 1933 ..... 2 Clara Florence Geiger 1880 - 1920 ......... +Frank Behne 1878 - 1943 ............. 3 Caroline Louise Behne 1915 - ................. +Donald Burton Dunham 1915 -

Are there any black GEIGERs on this list? I am helping a friend who is searching for black Geigers 1940-1965 Thank you Lorri phillylorri@earthlink.net GEIGER-SMITH-GEARIN-CARROLL

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Geiger Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JOY.2ACEB/884 Message Board Post: Although the GEIGER name, from Oberweier, Friesenheim and surrounding communities in Lahr, Baden Germany are in my husband's family tree, I have not been able to connect his family with the FRANZ SALES GEIGER of the article below. If anyone is interested in the ancestors or descendants of this individual, I do have additional information. I thought anyone researching the GEIGER family may be interested in the following: Translated from the book: "Friesenheim, mit Heiligenzell, Oberweier, Oberschopfheim, Schuttern" Photographs and Postcards from the end of the 19th century Volume 1 published, printed in Germany 1998 ISBN 3-7806-2511-3 THE CIGAR COMPANY GEIGER FROM OBERWEIER Geiger cigars and Gautschi cheroots were circulated across Germany. The company's maxim was to offer a luxuriantly selection of excellently high quality cigars all the time like "Schwarzer Geiger = Black Geiger", "Meistergeiger = Master Geiger", "Staenderat = upper class counsellor", "Marie Luise", Gautschi Rex Stumpen = Gautschi King cheroots". The company's slogan "Gautschi Stumpen leicht und mild - echt nur mit Flagge-Bild = Gautschi cheroots light and mild flavoured - only real with the ensign picture" 150 years ago began the prosperity of the cigar industry in the middle Baden area. The founders of the company found optimal conditions. There was already raw tobacco there because of the Lotzbecksche snuff factory in Lahr. Tobacco was already cultivated, the farmers were glad to have an extra income. The population was poor and there were almost no chances to earn money. Trade and industry were underdeveloped in our small communities. Workers were cheap and many. This was the right moment for Franz Sales Geiger (1864 - 1940), he found with Michael Muehlhaeusler (1847-1915) from Friesenheim his own cigar company on 29.7.1889. They started with 20 people in Friesenheim in the guesthouse "Adlerpost" in the Adlerstreet. Muehlhaeusler quitted after a couple of years, Franz Sales Geiger managed the company alone afterwards. Leo Moser from Heiligenzell was working several years in the management and collected the history of the company. He bought the schoolhouse in Oberweier, Hauptstraße 64, and established production and administration there. As sales increased, branches were founded around the turn of the century. Franz Sales Geiger always thought progressive and consulted the farmers very early to improve the quality. 1914 at the 25th anniversary 14 branches with 1800 employees exists. The difficulties during and after the First World War were overcome. After the end of First World War Franz Geiger Junior started in the company. He had spent several years abroad and improved his knowledge, so they could overcome the years of inflation. All over the years they built not only new branches, but also enlarged their buildings and the number of them in Oberweier. In 1925 the son in law Alexander Neundoerfer entered the company. He acquired good skills as he learned in an apprenticeship in the Netherlands and in the company of his parents in Lorsch / Hessen. In 1929 they established the daughter company Gautschi & Hauri with Switzerland participation for producing exclusive typical Switzerland cheroots. The former headquarter of Gautschi & Hauri had been in Ringsheim, headquarter, administration and sales however had been in Oberweier in rooms of the Geiger company. In the branches they did only manufacturing. Therefore the specialist for typical Switzerland cheroots was Rudolf Gautschi. Up to the beginning of the Second World War the Gautschi & Hauri Company was counted to the biggest cheroots companies of Germany. The large representative staff of Franz Geiger Company organized sales. Franz Geiger Company and the Messieurs Gautschi and Hauri were half and half holder of the company. Franz Sales Geiger the company founder died in 1940. During the war both companies still manufactured their well-known products as good as they could. Master purchaser of the cheroots and cigars was the army department of supply. Many young girls and women were ordered to Oberweier and the branches of Goldscheuer. Cigar manufacturing belonged to armament factoring. Franz Geiger continued the companies, the son of the founder and Alexander Neundoerfer. After the war Franz Geiger became, meantime starting in federation working for the German Cigar industry, a middleman for the occupying power. In this way a new beginning could launch for the cigar industry. For his great service for the economy and the universality after the Second World War Franz Geiger was awarded with the title "Kommerzienrat" (= honorary title in the German empire, awarded till 1919 to personalities doing in economy); in addition to this he got the "Bundesverdienstkreuz" (very high German medal of merit = Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany). When Franz Geiger died in 1963 the image of cigar industry had changed essentially. The law of machine prohibition in the three…years (can't identify exactly; it must be a law against industrialization after the war) had fatally consequences. Industry progression in this branch (section) had gotten a backlog contrary to the rest of the country. Mechanization that was allowed after 1956 and particular after 1952 brought some new other ways. As mechanization started, more and more branches were closed. The manufacturing of the consumer products were centralised in the major operation (in Oberweier). Therefore the number of machines in Oberweier was increasing. The third generation started in 1965 with Helmut Geiger, son of the Kommerzienrat Franz Geiger and so the management skill was with Alexander Neundoerfer and Helmut Geiger. In the years of mechanization, where the strong competition was taking part, a large oversupply existed. The machines were not working at full capacity, which means they did not work in a double scheduled work period, and could not work profitable because of the large interest. Smokers preferred quality and this objective has been installed in company. To use productivity potential rationally was the important objective. Thus causes that the companies of Wilhelm Ermeler & Co. Lahr, Franz Krämer, Seelbach and Franz Geiger, Oberweier joined (united) an equity stake mutual (cooperation). This happened in January 1974. The new group belonged to the ten most important cigar producers in Germany. After the setback of the cigar market during the seventies, the three companies decided to stop the production on March the 31st 1976. On April the 5th it was to be red in the "Lahrer Zeitung" (Newspaper of Lahr): Franz Geiger in Friesenheim, cigar manufacture, the company ceased to exist. (HRA = Handelsregister = commercial register) The age of cigar industry in Oberweier was over. The buildings found new owners, only the enormous building, that even today is taller than the rest of Oberweier and the portly villa of the companies founder proclaim the victory, the expansion and decline of the cigar industry in this area. The "Schwarze Geiger" (The Black Geiger = branding name of a cigar) and the "Marie-Luise" (name of another cigar) made Oberweier, part (town) of Friesenheim, famous with splendid products of the cigar factory Franz Geiger in Oberweier. Many cigar smokers were sorry when the companies Franz Geiger and Gautschi & Hauri closed the gates in 1979.

Thank you that helped

In a message dated 3/22/2004 9:10:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, Loveyken@aol.com writes: I must have missed the photo cause I can't find it ---- Go to the message board post by clicking on the link in the post (actually since you are on AOL you can't click on the link--you have to copy and paste it into your browser window). When viewing the board post, click on the link there to view the attachment. Joan

I must have missed the photo cause I can't find it

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GEIGER Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/873.1 Message Board Post: Attached is photo of gravemarker, albeit I am not known to be related to this person.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Geiger Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/874.2 Message Board Post: Attached is Photo of Gravemarker, albeit I am not known to be related to this person.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GEIGER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/883.2 Message Board Post: Photo of Gravestone, albeit I am not known to be related to this person...

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/883.1.1 Message Board Post: I did not attach a photo. I told you where it is. For free, it was the best I could do in a short time.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/883.1 Message Board Post: Looks like your photo did not get attached...

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GEIGER Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/883 Message Board Post: GEIGER_Eric_L_1930-2003.JPG I photographed this gravestone in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your records. This is one of the 69,089 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JOY.2ACEB/882.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry its taken me so long to reply. I do not know where Alois Geiger was from. The concensus of family is that probably Southern Germany or Rheinphalz area. Have you researched the German Geigers? I am new to this fascinating (sometimes frustrating) search. Would appreciate any help you could provide.

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Thank you, Harriet... Perhaps this is the Ulrich Geiger that someone in Canada gave info on in the past but was not of the proper generation to have been my Hans Ulrich(b1729), emigrant child of Abraham Gyger(b1690)... >From: "Harriet Imrey" <himrey@ntelos.net> >Reply-To: GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com >To: GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GEIGER] Swiss Mennonite "Geiger Church" in Ontario >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:49:47 -0500 > >"The Wilmot township settlement in Waterloo County in the province Ontario >in Canada was started in 1825 by settlers from Pennsylvania. It was >located two miles south of Baden on Bleam's Road. Among the first arrivals >was Christian Bösiger who was of Bernese descent and had lived in >Normanvillars in the Alsace before his migration to America. With him >arrived in Ontario Ulrich Steiner, Ulrich Geiger, and Daniel Geiger. They >were joined later by other Swiss Mennonites from Pennsylvania. Bishop >Benjamin Eby (1785-1853) from nearby Kitchener organized the newcomers into >a congregation in 1831. A meetinghouse was built on the farm of Daniel >Geiger, thus named Geiger Church. 'In early years Geiger's was a parent >church for scattered congregations several townships north.' " > >Source: Leo Schelbert, Swiss Migration to America: The Swiss Mennonites. >New York NY: Arno Press, 1980. pp. 232-3. > >Daniel Geiger was born 17 Mar 1799, died 2 May 1884 in Ontario. On 5 Apr >1833 he married Catharine Bosiger. Ulrich Geiger was born 22 Nov 1797, >died 12 Feb 1864 in Ontario. In 1822, he married Barbara Bosiger. Daniel >and Ulrich Geiger were sons of David Geiger, b. Nov 1755, and Verena >Steiner, b. 24 Dec 1757 in France (Alsace?). Other intermarried members of >the Geiger, Bösiger (later Bosinger/Basinger), and Steiner families from >Normanvillars in the Alsace founded a Swiss Mennonite congregation in Wayne >Co OH in 1825. They all used the same names, so are easy to confuse! > >Harriet Imrey >himrey@ntelos.net > > >==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== >Visit the GEIGER mailing list archives: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GEIGER/ > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Learn how to help protect your privacy and prevent fraud online at Tech Hacks & Scams. http://special.msn.com/msnbc/techsafety.armx

"The Wilmot township settlement in Waterloo County in the province Ontario in Canada was started in 1825 by settlers from Pennsylvania. It was located two miles south of Baden on Bleam's Road. Among the first arrivals was Christian Bösiger who was of Bernese descent and had lived in Normanvillars in the Alsace before his migration to America. With him arrived in Ontario Ulrich Steiner, Ulrich Geiger, and Daniel Geiger. They were joined later by other Swiss Mennonites from Pennsylvania. Bishop Benjamin Eby (1785-1853) from nearby Kitchener organized the newcomers into a congregation in 1831. A meetinghouse was built on the farm of Daniel Geiger, thus named Geiger Church. 'In early years Geiger's was a parent church for scattered congregations several townships north.' " Source: Leo Schelbert, Swiss Migration to America: The Swiss Mennonites. New York NY: Arno Press, 1980. pp. 232-3. Daniel Geiger was born 17 Mar 1799, died 2 May 1884 in Ontario. On 5 Apr 1833 he married Catharine Bosiger. Ulrich Geiger was born 22 Nov 1797, died 12 Feb 1864 in Ontario. In 1822, he married Barbara Bosiger. Daniel and Ulrich Geiger were sons of David Geiger, b. Nov 1755, and Verena Steiner, b. 24 Dec 1757 in France (Alsace?). Other intermarried members of the Geiger, Bösiger (later Bosinger/Basinger), and Steiner families from Normanvillars in the Alsace founded a Swiss Mennonite congregation in Wayne Co OH in 1825. They all used the same names, so are easy to confuse! Harriet Imrey himrey@ntelos.net