On the translation website you will come to a puzzling paragraph concerning Schieberl. It translated verbatim to: In addition to the farmhouse, there was quite a handsome number of farms and small farmers in the village, the steam Brickyard Hill, the furniture and Czemetschka Kurzeck, the forge and the brothers Wuschek locksmith, shoemakers, painters, Wagner, the shops when Adolf Steiner, Karl Neumann and also *Josef consumption in Schieberl.* In den beiden Gasthäusern *"Zu den Sieben Bergen"* (Preiwisch) und *"Zur guten Quelle"* (Walz) ging es oft hoch her. In the two inns *"One of the Seven Mountains" (Preiwisch)* and *"On good source"* (Walz) was often highly ago. *This is badly translated, because in German it says that Josef Schieberl operated a "Konsum," which was a large grocery chain in Bohemia. They translated "Konsum" to consumption... !!!* *Bye now, I will be gone for 48 hours, see you then....* *Aida* On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Aida! I did once have someone tell me that it was from the word > for smuggler and meant "Little or Petty Smuggler", so that fits. I > recently made contact with a wonderful gentleman named Schieberl now in > Bavaria who came from Mirschikau. This is where I believe my family > came from. We do not know for sure but believe we are related. I think > all the Schieberls in the US are probably related; my great great > grandfather immigrated with his 2 brothers and parents. I believe the > others who immigrated for example, to Missouri were probably cousins. > . > > Angie Wright Meyer > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Can someone tell me if the surname Posa is truly German? I can find no leads on my maternal GGmother Maria Posa Hoffman. She apparently lived in the Red Rock area of Bastrop County Texas and married my GGfather Jacob Hoffman in Bastrop County Texas. They both imigrated there, lived their lives and died there. She passed away in 1935 but I cannot find out where she is buried. Any help is appreciated.