Aida - many thanks for this. I am very grateful. Antonina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aida Kraus" <draytonharbor@gmail.com> To: <german-bohemian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Spelling of the name Beheng > >From Aida > To Antonina: > go to this website and key in the names you want to research. The red > areas are where the name is most frequent. Click on the area to get the > location's name. Then go on the German Internet and look for the white > pages of the German Telephone book called "Oeffentliches Telefonbuch" > Good luck: > http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/rach.html > > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Antonina&MikeSpittal < > a.m.spittal@waitrose.com> wrote: > >> You mention having a link to German names in Germany. Would you be able >> to >> see if you have any locations for the names "RACH" and "EIPERT", so that >> I >> could make contact with the relevant German rootsweb groups? >> I would be most grateful for any hints you can give me. Thank you. >> Antonina >> Spittal geb. RACH >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Aida Kraus" <draytonharbor@gmail.com> >> To: <german-bohemian@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:25 PM >> Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Spelling of the name Beheng >> >> >> > Judy, I think you are on the wrong list for this question here. This >> > has >> > nothing to do with German Bohemia as these names are not common for >> > that >> > area. You have to go to the rootsweb lists covering Germany. But >> > since >> I >> > happen to have a link to German names in Germany, I found Beheng >> > (exactly >> > how it is spelled) most prominent in the Bitburg-Pruem and >> > Trier-Saarburg >> > areas. There are also families of that name in Bielefeld, Duesseldorf, >> > Koeln, Bonn, Euskirchen and Daun. I would start with Bitburg Pruem >> > and >> > Trier Saarburg, searching if there are "Ortsfamilienbuecher" (Family >> > books) >> > available, and if you could obtain title and author. Von Pitz was not >> > successful, but Puetz without the Von were seen as most frequent in the >> > Rhein Sieg Kreis, Berlin, Karlsruhe, Rastatt, Baden-Baden and >> > Esslingen. >> > I hope that this will help you in obtaining some literature from that >> > area, but you would be much better served becoming a member of the >> > German >> > list. You can pose your question in English there, asking if anybody >> would >> > be in possession of an "Ortsfamilienbuch" of the above named towns and >> > if >> > they could look up the names for you, and that you would appreciatei t >> > if >> > they could give you the source. >> > Aida >> > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Judy Olson <jolson@rea-alp.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I'm helping a friend locate info on the passenger lists for her >> >> ggrandfather Peter Nicholas Beheng, who immigrated from Prussia to >> >> Belle >> >> Plain, Scott Co., Minnesota in about 1867. His wife-to-be Anna Von >> >> Pitz >> >> b. >> >> about 1842 was also on the ship. I'm told the captain wouldn't let >> >> them >> >> leave the ship until he married them, supposed to protect women on the >> >> voyage. >> >> >> >> However, I'm having trouble finding that Beheng name as it is spelled >> >> so >> >> very many ways. So is Von Pitz, for that matter. Does anyone know how >> the >> >> original spelling might be? Thanks. Judy >> >> German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >> GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site >> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> > without >> > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message