Again thank you both, this is going to be a fun trip. It will start in late January and go for the entire year of 2011. I'll be starting up a new plant most of the time, (my employers export a lot to Europe and our customers there want a closer manufacturing site.) But, with German holidays and the extra incentives given me, I should have ample time to do some digging. What I can't do, my wife will. -------------------------------------------------- From: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:34 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Extended Stay in Germany > No problem, Rick! I will get directions from Katharine for you and the > name of the pastor in Marienthal. They're really not that far from each > other and you will be blown away by Falkenstein, it is a very small > village with a very steep main street that leads up to the castle ruins, > they are quite magnificent and the view is spectacular! > > Barb Price > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Rick Yeager" <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:14:47 > To: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Extended Stay in Germany > > Wow! Thanks to both of you for the many things to look for. I wish it > was > an unencumbered trip for research, but my company has a bit of a say in > what > my activities will be for most of the time. > One thing I would ask, I've looked for Falkenstein and found several. The > literal translation is "Falcon Rock" and even German colleagues ask "Where > is Falkenstein". The Hessen lead with both Marienthal and the > Falkenstein > possibility are fairly close to where I'll be. > > I can be reached also privately at [email protected] > > Thanks for all the suggestions. > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Virginia Nuta" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 9:02 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Extended Stay in Germany > >> Rick-- >> >> If I were going to spend some serious time in Germany, here is what I >> would >> be doing: >> >> 1) Pin down Nicholas' father's village. >> >> The father of our immigrant ancestor Nicholas was identified as Paul >> Yager >> of Meiyerspach in Hesse in the record of Nicholas' marriage to Anna Maria >> Sieber. Meiyerspach is thought to be a corruption of Weichersbach, a >> village in Hessen in the Mottgers parish. >> >> We have information on Yagers in that village and surrounding villages >> but >> nothing conclusive on the birth of a Nicholas that fits our Nicholas. >> (Not >> that it is a given that Nicholas is required to have been born there, he >> could have been born elsewhere and then his family moved.) >> >> It has been suggested by another visitor to Germany that there is a >> Meiyersbach, in Hessen, that could be the the father's village, rather >> than >> Weichersbach. If so, it would be a small place because I have not been >> able >> to find it. I still want to rule it out. No doubt in Germany there is >> someone who would know one way or another and I think it would be an >> important step for us. >> >> 2) Investigate the godparents of Nicholas' and Anna Maria's children. >> >> ADAM: Adam's godfather was Johann Adam Yager, a soldier of Wolfstein, >> and >> godmother Barbara, daughter of Claus Yager of Munchweiler. Munchweiler, >> I >> believe, is SW of Falkenstein. There was a Wolfstein area in Bavaria but >> also a village in the SW of the Palatinate. >> >> MARIA GERTRAUD: Nicolaus Jaager and Gertraud, his wife, of Munchweiler, >> were >> godparents for Nicholas' daughter, Maria Gertraud Yager in 1711. Rev. >> Dan >> Franklin, who obtained this information, thought that it is this couple >> who >> had the daughter Barbara born in 1690 in Weichersbach or Meiyersbach. >> >> ANNA MARIA: "On the 22nd of May, (1707), Nicolaus Jaeger of Falckenstein >> and >> his wife, Anna Maria, had a small daughter baptized. The daughter was >> born >> on the 19th of May at 8:00 am, and her godparents (witnesses) were >> Michael >> Jaeger of Meyersspach (Meiersspach or Weiersspach) of Hessen and his wife >> Anna Maria, the daughter of Johannes Wachmanns of Falkenstein and his >> wife >> Barbara, the legitimate daughter of Valentin Mayers of Muenchweiler." >> >> ANNA MARGRETHA: 1716: In April, on Easter Tuesday, a baby daughter was >> born >> to Niclas Jeger of Falckenstein and she was later baptized at the Dom >> Quasimod. The Godparents were Johann Theobaldt Coestner of Falckenstein >> and >> Anna Margretha, the wife of Michel Jeger of the old Glasshutte. The child >> was named Anna Margetha. >> >> ANNA MARIA: The godparents of the daughter Anna Maria were local from the >> Falkenstein area and were not Yagers. >> >> Clearly there is a Munchweiler connection as well as a Meiyersbach or >> Weichersbach connection. I think we have been hampered by the assumption >> that all our ancestors stayed in place for generations. John >> Blankenbaker's >> work shows us that this is not true. Further, when you think about the >> Wars >> of Louis IV that played out over these areas during the time our >> immigrant >> ancestors were growing up, it is more astonishing when they DID stay in >> place, because there were a lot of unpleasant things going on. >> >> I may be going out on a very weak limb here, but in finding out what I >> could >> about the local rulers of the Mottgers/Weichersbach/Oberzell area of >> Hessen, >> I saw that in the 17th century they were a branch of the Counts of Hanau >> who >> also controlled some lands in the SW of the Palatinate. I started to >> wonder >> if our Yagers could have been employed by this family and moving around >> to >> their different areas of influence. Also, we have assumed that because >> Nicholas' father was said to be of Hessen, that meant that Nicholas also >> was >> born in Hessen. But it could be possible that Nicholas' family had been >> in >> the Palatinate for some time, and it was his father who, for whatever >> reason, settled in Hessen. Anyway, if I could have a delightful year of >> research in the Old Country, I would be looking around in Munchweiler for >> the trail, and I would also be looking for a "Glasshutte" in those areas. >> >> Virginia Nuta >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Rick Yeager" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 5:29 PM >> Subject: [GERMANNA] Extended Stay in Germany >> >> >>> I'll be spending about 1 year in Germany. I'm looking for advice on >>> towns, churches, people, etc. to visit to pick up details on the 2nd >>> Colony Nicholas Yager family heritage in Germany. I will be living >>> southwest of Dusseldorf. 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