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. Any advice would be welcomed. Thanks in advance.

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. Any advice would be welcomed. > > Thanks in advance. > If you refer to a Germanna descendant, include a link to your on-line > data. > ------------------------------- > 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 > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5462 (20100919) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > >