Yes, very-definitely "text-bookish", but you and I are pretty likely to spot a Geiger-reference when one turns up! Even though it's not "light-reading", I still found it as very "pleasant-reading"--managed to learn something in spite of myself! Same for the other two books I'd mentioned. Just-flat-lovely, aren't they? I think that I paid maybe $65 for an out-of-print copy of the Burgert book. I expect that you will empathize-with, and support, my choice to lend this hard-to-find Burgert reference to my good friends who found their personal-places in it. I'll get back to Ittlingen later, and the records will still be there. If you have any way to contact author Burgert, please ask her to PRINT MORE COPIES. That's a truly-marvelous book. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Geiger research in Baden: Questions > In a message dated 1/8/2005 5:55:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, > himrey@ntelos.net writes: > > 3. Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (Philadelphia PA: Univ. of PA Press, 1996). Again, a very complete set of references, from both sides of the Atlantic, arranged as primary sources, secondary-sources from the 19th-c., more-recent secondary-sources, etc. No specific Geiger-info, just clues about where to look in Baden-Württemberg. > -- > Harriet- > > This is a too often overlooked book that contains a GOLDMINE of information--although I'll be the first to admit it is a bit "text-bookish" and not at all something you'd want to take for light summer reading on the beach. <g> > > <<The Geigers-of-Ittlingen in the Kraichgau apparently left more legal records in Germany than their relatives in the adjacent parish of Berwangen. The Ittlinger-folks became international businessmen fairly early, and served as brokers for PA and SC Geigers (among others). They ar e included in Annette Kunselmann Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 1, The Northern Kraichgau. Publications of the PA German Society, Vol. 16, Breinigsville PA: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1983. Out-of-print and hard to find, but a lovely book! I finally found a copy, but it was so lovely that I didn't manage to write down the Geiger references before loaning it to a couple of German-born friends: they spotted the book while visiting, saw the picture of the exact place where they'd met, the place where they'd honeymooned, and the place where his father had taken canoe-trips down the Neckar. These "immediate" family-connections obviously trump my interest in Geigers of long-ago, so I loaned the book to my friends. Will update the Ittlingen-Geiger notes after they return it. This book IS very hard to find. I managed to pry the single copy Annette Burgert brought with her to the NGS conference in Pittsburgh two years ago out of her hands and buy it from her. <g> Lots of good GEIGER info in there copied from German church books. > > Joan