Greetings, researchers. Looking for Klein, Bibelheimer, Hirning, Bischoff. Freudental, Peterstahl, Neuberg. also, not GR, Kuckens, Ulrich and Essig, of Bremen and Vegesack. GOD BLESS AMERICA Katherine Kuckens

----- Original Message ----- From: "Katherine Kuckens" > Looking for Klein, Bibelheimer, Hirning, Bischoff. Freudental, Peterstahl, Neuberg. Hello Kat, just a few observations on the placenames U mentioned.. < i'm sharing this on the list; as searching for the right places can of course be very important to our research> The "tal" in Freudental and the "tahl"** in Peterstahl are both the same thing The latter, however, should be "thal" if U are gonna use the "h".. So the "modern spelling is: FREUDENTAL & PETERSTAL or the "old-fashioned" way is: FREUDENTHAL & PETERSTHAL (das) TAL or (das) THAL means (the) valley... Literally we have: JOYVALLEY or HAPPYVALLEY and PETERsVALLEY, more likely JOYVALE and PETERsVALE Now on to "Neuberg"; it should be NEUBURG! There is a different meaning to "Berg" and "Burg"*, namely: Berg="Mountain/Hill" and Burg="Town/City"* as well as "Castle" The word BURG become BURY in english < England> So NEUBURG would be NEWBURY < aka NEWTON > Not surprisingly there are quite a few "new towns" in Germany*** The word Town in turn relates to the <modern> german word ZAUN , which means "fence".. So think of a place with palisades... < pali = pole > Ah so much good stuff hidden in the etymology of words. ;)) Hope this helps! ;j. * The german word Buerger , which means citizen is related to this Burg=Town/City ** if/while searching for PETERSTAL or PETERSTHAL keep in mind that there are many entries in the StPete Index Files that are incorrectly written as Peterstahl *** i can provide a list if U/anyone are/is interested...