According to some friends of ours from Germany, you won't find anything to Nassau-Siegen. It is now Siegen. They say to pronounce it as See-gn.(kind of gutteral if college diction serves me right, which it often doesn't.) ----- Original Message ----- From: Hdanw@aol.com To: "GERMANNA COLONIES-L" <GERMANNA_COLONIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:26:44 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago Subject: [GERMANNA] Another Possible Resouce for German Genealogy Although the best sources, I believe, for Germanna Colonies research are the publications of the Germanna Memorial Foundation, the writings of B. C. Holtzclaw [many of which are now online at sites like HeritageQuest], and the exchange of information on this website, I am going to suggest another resource: It is the Immigrant Genealogical Society in Burbank, CA. Try this website for some of their resources. I don't see anything which springs out for Nassau-Siegen, but with so many boundary changes, who knows? _http://www.immigrantgensoc.org/searches/search_index.html_ (http://www.immigrantgensoc.org/searches/search_index.html) It is highly unlikely this organization can help me with my latecomer Wilhelm L. Braun (d. ca 1926) who reported in one census he came from Baden. When and where is a mystery, but he came to join other Germans in San Antonio, TX. (My genealogy is full of common surnames!) This society told me LONG AGO that I had to know the parish from which my ancestor came!!! Fat chance!!! As for Braun's wife's genealogy, I was fortunate enough to find and obtain copies of an *Old War* pension claim for her father, who was divorced from their mother during the Civil War. His widow, second wife, had to produce all kinds of documents in order to file--and receive--a pension after her husband was killed by the Brooklyn [long way from Texas] police. As some genealogist experts say, Hope your ancestor got into trouble. There are bound to be records then!!! E.W.Wallace **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message