Hi. I am new to this list. We are connected to a weaver, Jacob MUELLER, who lived in Ibersheim in 1753 and was married to a Susanna ?. They had three children: * Marie, born 15 Dec 1760, died 10 Oct 1794, married Johann VON HOWEN, Junior 5 Aug 1785. * Minister Heinrich, born 1758 * Jacob, came to Galcia in 1785 from the Palatinate. He died in the Paltinate Pfalz, Germany (Ger. Rheinland). His wife (unknown) who died before 1785 in Austria. This Mueller family, although originally from Switzerland, lived for a time at the Schafbusch, a Mennonite estate near the city of Weissenburg in the Alsace on their migrational route to the Palatinate. Now I have found a Jacob Mueller 1753-1827, born at Ibersheim, South Germany, who was the first elder of the Mennonite Church at Einsiedel, Galacia and an outstanding pioneer leader of the settlement. A number of his letters were written to relatives in the Paltinate, which were pritned by Bachman, contain valuable information about the early Mennontie settlement in Galacia. He died Sept. 11, 1827 after having served the congregation for 43 years. Thsi is from P. Bachman, Mennonites in Kleinpolen 1784-1934 (Lemberg, 1934) 134-43. What is his connection, if any? Also, a Jacob MUELLER, born 1834 in Ehrenfeld, died 1914. How close was this area to Ibersheim? Thanks Karen http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kmiller/mueller.htm