Hey, you are lucky! You have more information on your ggrandfather than I do on my ggggrandfather or my gggrandfather! All I know is that Joseph Bongard - my ggggrandfather - was a priest somewhere in Germany and immigrated to the US sometime around 1870 or so! I do know that there is a family story that he left the priesthood because he found out that the monastary he was associated with was burning the fetuses from abortions performed on nuns that had become pregnant by some of the other priests there. (Remember: this is ONLY a family passed down story and could be totally false!) I do know that he married Alvinia Meise from Quincy, Illinois once he was over here and they went on to have 1 son and 3 daughters - one of whom is my greatgrandmother who married George "Jack" Enslow who seems to be an alien from outer space as I cannot seem to connect him to any family here on earth! And I have been trying to since I was first interested in genealogy around the age of 18! Any suggestions here? Sonya -----Original Message----- From: by way of Genealogy Records Service <info@genrecords.com> <ALauten374@aol.com> To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com <GenTips-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, July 03, 1998 3:54 PM Subject: German Immigrant Question > >I could use some advice.Can anyone give me some help on finding where my >GGgrandfather came from in Germany. I have a copy of is intent to become a >citizen and a copy of his naturilazition papers.The date he said he came to >USA was 1 May 1869,from Germany. I have rented several films from the FHC and >haven't had any luck finding his name. I have looked in all the books listing >Germans to America,the books about Bremen departures,etc.I got the forms to >look up passenger lists from NARA,but htey have no listings for the year 1869. >Thank You. > > >==== GenTips Mailing List ==== >Are you having trouble unsubscribing to the list? You can subscribe and unsubscribe to the lists we own from our web page at: >http://www.genrecords.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > >