In a message dated 8/25/2000 10:05:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, GERMAN-KINGDOMS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I am researching the Helwig family. The earliest I have is August J. Helwig, > b. Sept. 1839, who apparently emigrated to America from Lippe-Detmold. Can > anyone point me in the appropriate direction to find more information on > him? Have you been to an LDS Family History Center yet? Some of the Lippe-Detmold church registers are on film in their library. You can probably find indexes to your own locality using FamilySearch's library search engine. Find it at <A HREF="http://www.familysearch.org/">LDS</A>. Good hunting! Bob RKluckhohn@aol.com

Good info, but the correct URL for the Hessen site is http://go.to/Hessen > Norm, > > You might begin with Don Watson's web site http://goto.hessen and > select the LINKS. He has about everything you might need for your > search. > > If you have any idea of the port or year he landed, you might do a > surname search at cimorelli http://208.249.158.172/safe/shipmenu.htm > which will give you the NARA index films to search for ship passenger > lists. . > > Or you might find him with a surname search in the volumes at > http://istg.rootsweb.com the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. > > Happy hunting, > Patricia Schubert Zippin > > At 10:11 PM -0700 8/24/00, Norm Le Blanc wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I am new to this list, so if I violate any protocol, pardons in advance.... > > > >I am researching the Helwig family. The earliest I have is August J. Helwig, > >b. Sept. 1839, who apparently emigrated to America from Lippe-Detmold. Can > >anyone point me in the appropriate direction to find more information on > >him? > > > >Thanks in advance, > >Norm Le Blanc > > > ==== GERMAN-KINGDOMS Mailing List ==== > Going on Vacation? Longer than 5 days? Please unsubscribe > It is click and send ready > mailto:German-Kingdoms-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > >

Norm, You might begin with Don Watson's web site http://goto.hessen and select the LINKS. He has about everything you might need for your search. If you have any idea of the port or year he landed, you might do a surname search at cimorelli http://208.249.158.172/safe/shipmenu.htm which will give you the NARA index films to search for ship passenger lists. . Or you might find him with a surname search in the volumes at http://istg.rootsweb.com the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. Happy hunting, Patricia Schubert Zippin At 10:11 PM -0700 8/24/00, Norm Le Blanc wrote: >Hi, > >I am new to this list, so if I violate any protocol, pardons in advance.... > >I am researching the Helwig family. The earliest I have is August J. Helwig, >b. Sept. 1839, who apparently emigrated to America from Lippe-Detmold. Can >anyone point me in the appropriate direction to find more information on >him? > >Thanks in advance, >Norm Le Blanc

Norm My first suggestion would be to change your spelling. I find 16 families in the German telephone directory under the name of Hellwig, but none under Helwig. I know a family here in America that went by the name of Helwig and I believe it was changed from Hellwig when they came to this country for obvious reasons. Good luck Roger Stange

Hi, I am new to this list, so if I violate any protocol, pardons in advance.... I am researching the Helwig family. The earliest I have is August J. Helwig, b. Sept. 1839, who apparently emigrated to America from Lippe-Detmold. Can anyone point me in the appropriate direction to find more information on him? Thanks in advance, Norm Le Blanc _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Gloria After a little further searching I have found a Jörg Sander at Feldstr. 22 in Detmold. I'd give him a try. I'll bet it is the same one!! Good luck Roger > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [GERMANKING] elderly researcher - still alive? > Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:31:26 EDT > From: GScott113@aol.com > To: GERMAN-KINGDOMS-L@rootsweb.com > > Hello everyone, > Many years ago my cousin hired a man named Helmuth (or Helmut) Strehlau > to do some Stammfolge of our ancestors in Schale & Sonneborn. After the > works were completed my cousin & Mr. Strehlau corresponded off & on, but > nothing has been heard from him in quite a while. My cousin is wondering if > the gentleman has passed away. > Would anyone happen to know of Mr. Strehlau? Besides doing genealogy > research, he was a teacher at a math/science school at Bielefeld & then lived > at Bad Salzuflen. If he is still alive he would be quite elderly. Any info > would be greatly appreciated. > I have checked the German phone book site at http://www.teleauskunft.de > There are several Helmut Strehau's listed, but none in Bad Salzuflen. > Gloria (Landwer) Scott

Gloria This is really far fetched but I don't know how desperate you are to find your person. 23 years ago I had a cousin living in Pivitsheide. We visited them and they had employed a young teacher from Bad Salzuflen to spend the day with us and be our interpreter. His name was Jorg Sander. I have checked the directory and don't find him there today but do find a Gerald Sander. I would be willing to bet he is related to Jorg and could tell you his whereabouts.......most likely just in a neighboring village. Anyway, considering Jorg taught in that area I would think he would be very likely to know the whereabouts of your Mr. Strehlau. I realize this is a thin lead, but in genealogy often times the thinnest of threads leads us to the pot of gold!!! Good luck Roger > > Subject: [GERMANKING] elderly researcher - still alive? > Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:31:26 EDT > From: GScott113@aol.com > To: GERMAN-KINGDOMS-L@rootsweb.com > > Hello everyone, > Many years ago my cousin hired a man named Helmuth (or Helmut) Strehlau > to do some Stammfolge of our ancestors in Schale & Sonneborn. After the > works were completed my cousin & Mr. Strehlau corresponded off & on, but > nothing has been heard from him in quite a while. My cousin is wondering if > the gentleman has passed away. > Would anyone happen to know of Mr. Strehlau? Besides doing genealogy > research, he was a teacher at a math/science school at Bielefeld & then lived > at Bad Salzuflen. If he is still alive he would be quite elderly. Any info > would be greatly appreciated. > I have checked the German phone book site at http://www.teleauskunft.de > There are several Helmut Strehau's listed, but none in Bad Salzuflen. > Gloria (Landwer) Scott

Hello everyone, Many years ago my cousin hired a man named Helmuth (or Helmut) Strehlau to do some Stammfolge of our ancestors in Schale & Sonneborn. After the works were completed my cousin & Mr. Strehlau corresponded off & on, but nothing has been heard from him in quite a while. My cousin is wondering if the gentleman has passed away. Would anyone happen to know of Mr. Strehlau? Besides doing genealogy research, he was a teacher at a math/science school at Bielefeld & then lived at Bad Salzuflen. If he is still alive he would be quite elderly. Any info would be greatly appreciated. I have checked the German phone book site at http://www.teleauskunft.de There are several Helmut Strehau's listed, but none in Bad Salzuflen. Gloria (Landwer) Scott

To Rootsweb. I was wondering why I'm not getting the usual e-mail that come across the lines. Where everyone is looking for information about there relatives and getting answers from different people. Thanks Lynne ldholtz@aol.com

Hallo Jerry, unfortunately this is a mobile phone number belonging to the D1 mobile phone net. The user can sit anywhere in Germany. The easiest thing to reach him will be ... to phone him. You have his number. Thomas > Betreff: [GERMANKING] Address to match name in phone directory > Datum: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 07:42:16 EDT > Von: DittDad@aol.com > An: GERMAN-KINGDOMS-L@rootsweb.com > > Having just completed a search using the German > online directory I came up with a name and phone > number but no address. > > I searched the directory using the surname > HUCKENSTEIN as the only search input. > I was returned only one name: > HUCKENSTEIN, Joachim > phone number:01 71 27 46 47 2 > > Can anyone get me the address that goes with > this phone number? >

Having just completed a search using the German online directory I came up with a name and phone number but no address. I searched the directory using the surname HUCKENSTEIN as the only search input. I was returned only one name: HUCKENSTEIN, Joachim phone number:01 71 27 46 47 2 Can anyone get me the address that goes with this phone number? HUCKENSTEIN is the surname of my great great grandmother who emigrated to the US in 1857 with my great grandmother. As I searched the whole of Germany and only one listing was found this Joachim just might be a related to my ancestors. Thanks for any help you may be able to give in locating the address or how to contact him, other than by phone. That is an impossibility with me being deaf. Jerry Dittman Boonsboro, MD

http://www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman/index.htm Follow link to "Databases" then St. Michael's. This is the beginning of the fine database being developed in progress for St. Michael's Catholic Church of Chicago, Illinois. Hundreds of entries of parents who came from all over Germany. BDN = Baden WURT = Wurttemberg BAV = Bavaria LUX = Luxembourg PRU = Prussia SWITZ = Switzerland H-Darmstadt - Hessen-Darmstadt The site search engine is on site - link from the home page to "WhatUSeek" W. David Samuelsen GermanyGenWeb Project

I must have missed your original query but I am very interested because i just discovered that my great grandfather was from Sondershausen. Also just found a wonderful website for Sondershausen. If you will e-mail me I will give you the address. I have it bookmarked and dont have it handy. My family name from Sondershausen and nearby Rossla is FROEHLICH. Betty in Wisconsin

Thank you all so much for your help. I am reading about the history behind Thuringia now and it is helping me to see things better. To get a picture in your mind of where an ancestor came from is just wonderful. I am new to this and really appreciate all the responses I get. I didn't even think about there being an encyclopedia on-line. I've even received an address for the right church in Sondershausen! I hope I did not take too much time from important e-mails, just am really thankful for you all. Sincerely, Lori

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I am searching in the Radevormwald and Huckeswagon areas for any relatives of Ewald or Julius Ebbinghaus. Ewald (my grandfather) married Amelia Huckenbeck in 1876. They emigrated to Canada in about 1888. Glenna May Pfahler Langford.

Hello Frank My name is Kevin and I was born and raised in Philadelphia. If they lived in the city, and you can't get any other leads from Immigration records and such, you might want to try the City Directory. It was a listing of people and addresses much like a phone book, only in the days before there were phones. It was published every year and goes back well into the 1700's with virtually everyone listed (in alphabetical order.) If you look up the name Hummel you'll find anyone by that name living within the city limits. The listing will include their usually include their occupations. Often, immigrants who were related would settle in the same area (you may even find them at the same address,) and using maps of the city from that era you can determine whether any of the Hummels that you find are listed in that same area. This will give you a place to start. If you then trace them forward and backward in time you can discover when they entered the book and when they exited the book. Their entry may correspond to an immigration date (within a few years), and their exit may correspond to a death record. From this gathering of information you can check city archives for birth, marriage, and death records to see what other names show up. You may get a match at any point in this process with the names you already know. The Directories are available on microfilm at the Main Library on Logan Square in Philadelphia along with census records. I found over 80% of my ancestors with this method because I found one person, and their corresponding death record and I literally hit paydirt. It turns out there were 28 relatives buried in the same grave site with him, as was the custom of the time. Hope I haven't bored you and I hope this helps. Kevin M. Palan -----Original Message----- From: GERMAN-KINGDOMS-D-request@rootsweb.com <GERMAN-KINGDOMS-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: GERMAN-KINGDOMS-D@rootsweb.com <GERMAN-KINGDOMS-D@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, August 20, 2000 5:01 PM Subject: GERMAN-KINGDOMS-D Digest V00 #285

Sue, I have two relatives from the 1850s named Dorothee, That is a good possibility. Carl GERMAN-KINGDOMS-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subject: > > GERMAN-KINGDOMS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 285 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [GERMANKING] Re: Girls names that [Dsjk2716@aol.com] > #2 Re: [GERMANKING] Military before 1 [Pat McCoy <Patricia.McCoy@gallaude] > #3 [GERMANKING] Hummels from Eningen ["Frank Hummel" <bumblebee@hummel.o] > > Administrivia: > Subscribers > Can you spare $10 dollars to support Rootsweb? > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > To unsubscribe, click and sent instant message > mailto:German-Kingdoms-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [GERMANKING] Re: Girls names that begin with "D" > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 04:16:09 EDT > From: Dsjk2716@aol.com > To: GERMAN-KINGDOMS-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi All, > > I have been reading some church records and have stumbled across a girls' > name that I can't read. All I can make out are A (which I think is for Anna) > and D. The D has me baffled. There seem to be about 6 letters in the name. > > The name only appears twice - once in 1683 and then again in 1714. Can > anyone suggest a name for a girl that it might be for this time frame? > > Thank you! > Sue > Dsjk2716@aol.com > Rootsweb Sponsor > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [GERMANKING] Military before 1900 > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 07:36:04 -0400 > From: Pat McCoy <Patricia.McCoy@gallaudet.edu> > To: GERMAN-KINGDOMS-L@rootsweb.com > > I would like to add that I'm interested in this information as well. > This may have influenced my great-great grandfather's decision > to come to America, by himself, at the age of 14 when his parents > and, possibly, other siblings stayed behind in Wissentrup, Germany. > > Pat McCoy > ============================================================== > "Nancy M. Atkinson" wrote: > > > I share your interest in finding military pre-1900 records. My ancestor > > from the Prussian province of Saxony (now Sachsen-Anhalt) fought in the > > Franco-Prussian war and 'supposedly' earned medals. I have no idea > > whether records exist from this war (c.1870 I believe) but would love to > > find out. > > > > Nancy > > > > > Does anyone know where I can locate military records for before 1900? > > And how old were boys in >Germany when they enlisted or were enlisted in > > military service? > > > > ==== GERMAN-KINGDOMS Mailing List ==== > > Going on Vacation? Longer than 5 days? Please unsubscribe > > It is click and send ready > > mailto:German-Kingdoms-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [GERMANKING] Hummels from Eningen > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:42:34 -0400 > From: "Frank Hummel" <bumblebee@hummel.org> > To: GERMAN-KINGDOMS-L@rootsweb.com > > HI: > > In 1804 my ggggrandfather, CASPAR HUMMEL, his wife MAGDELENA (WAGNER) HUMMEL and four children immigrated to Philadelphia, Pa. Of the four children I only know the name of one, JOHANN GEORG HUMMEL, my gggrandfather. I am trying to find out the names of the other children. > > Also, Casper's brother DAVID HUMMEL came on the same ship with his wife and seven children. I know one son was JAKOB HUMMEL, but I am also trying to find the names of the others. > > The ships manifest only listed the male names. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Frank Hummel. > > > > Please visit my web site that shows were ENINGEN is located. > > http://members.xoom/EningenGer/Hummel

Still looking for the Bernhardt KOEPPE family who came (from Germany) to Wisconsin in the late 1860's. Bernhardt had his wife, Dorathea, and a son, Bernhardt, Jr., and then a daughter Hedwig (Hattie), and a son William were born in this country, and last but far from least, my husband's Grandfather, Louis Arthur Koeppe, who was born in August 1870. Does anyone have these people in their ancestry? Thank you............June D. Koeppe

On 18 Sept. 1832 the marriage of Petrus WEGENER/WAGNER, son of Andrice WEGENER/WAGNER and Mariae Kiefer took place at Kirf, Germany. His bride was Joannetha Weber, daughter of Antonii Weber and Margaretha Elends. Does anyone have further information on this family? Please write to Patti Laessig at anaquea@dwave.net