Barb Dopp wrote: >>> I have a German document that says an ancestor came from Loccum. Can't >>> find it anyone know where it is? >> 20 km west of Hanover is a lake called the "Steinhuder Meer". >> 7 or 8 km west of this lake is Loccum, which is well known here in >> Nether Saxony for its abbey. > Danke! You are the first to tell me the location of this place. Could you > possibly tell me what this is saying on the German records (I do not read or > speak German) "der adjungierte Klosterforster zu Loccum" > I think it is telling that he is a forest ranger. Yes. A "Klosterförster" must have been the ranger of the forest which belonged to the abbey. > The name KUHNHOLZ is not a familiar name in Germany and I am having problems > getting information. Have any ideas? No. Look into the parish registers of Loccum. > Need any help from Minnesota? Perhaps some day, who knows ? * Dieter