Linda wrote... > We have a lot of new > subscribers to the list and more are joining every day. Let's start the New > Year off with a post from each of you on your family lines. > OK, ...here is the review of my Tree!!.... Michel (Michael) HAAS and wife Elizabeth (nee Huntsweigle) evidently lived in the Bas Rhin region of Alsace, France. Michel's father was said to be a gendarme, Michel himself a tavern-keeper. Both Michel and Elizabeth were born about 1780. These people were of the LUTHERAN faith. They had seven children: Michel (the younger), Magdalena, Elizabeth, Barbara, Katherine, Margaret, & Jacob. The eldest son, Michel, had married Magdalena Schweikhardt, who may have come from the community of Wingen in Bas Rhin, and they had one child while still in France. Her family had operated a brewery in Alsace. Members of Magdalena's family had preceeded her to America. In 1830, Michel, his wife, their seven children, together with son Michel's wife Magdalena & infant, boarded a sailing ship in Le Havre, France, bound for (NYCity?). By 1834, this entire family had settled in a community of Alsatian farmers in East Eden, Erie County, NY (30 miles due south of Buffalo). Son Michel contributed to the building of St. John's United Evangelical (Lutheran) Church on Nohl's (Mohl) Hill on East Eden Road in the 1830's. (The vacant church building burned in 1959; its cemetery still marks its location) Of the seven Haas children who emigrated to Western NY from Alsace, four remained in the Eden/Hamburg area, and three settled in the city of Buffalo. Those whose families remained in the southern region of Erie County, NY: Michel (Michael), Magdalena, Elizabeth, & Katherine. One of Michel's sons, George, and wife Eleanor (nee Tyrer) moved on to the Withee/Dodgeville area of Wisconsin. Those who migrated to the growing city of Buffalo: Margaret, Jacob, & Barbara. My greatest challenge at present is to locate the community(s) in Alsace where this Haas family originated. Most likely not far from Wissembourg. (If only ONE of those original immigrants had left a note with their hometown name on it!!) ~~~Paul Paul S. Haas (from Amherst, NY) Hatboro, PA (215) 441-0155 pshaas@worldnet.att.net