Does anyone know if there is a listing of early ministers in the Reform and Lutheran churches in Germany going back to the 1800's? Barbara

Would anyone know of genealogies specifically related to glassmaking families in Hessen in the 1600's, such as Kunkel/Kunckel and Gundelach/Gondelach? I understand there was a lot of intermarrying and so forth. Also, when forest glass (waldglas) was made, they had to travel around a lot. thank you, janet Janet Reinhold, Editor Kunkel/Conkle/Gunkel 'Spindle' Genealogy Newsletter PO Box 4001, Covina CA 91723 kunkel@futurepkg.com

Hi List, Can anyone help me locate a village by the name of Wettlesheim on Oberfranken? Regards

hello, I am looking for information on a relative from Cassel, Hesse. His name is Henry Lyman and was born around 1837 and came to to the US in the 1850's. Looking for some direction on finding information in Cassel. any help is appreciated. thank you --sean _________________________________________________________________ Get fast, reliable access with MSN 9 Dial-up. Click here for Special Offer! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/

weitergeleitete Nachricht ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Hock" <stefan_hock@yahoo.de> To: "Hessen-Liste" <hessen-l@genealogy.net> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 7:55 PM Subject: [Hessen-L] BODE 1773-83 in Amerika > Hallo Liste, > > ich such nach Informationen zu Johann Eckhard BODE. > Im Sippel "Daten zur Nordhessischen Führungsschicht" ist zu ihm das folgende > vermerkt: > > * etwa 1725, 1773-1783 in USA als Major im Regiment Rall, 1783 Major im > Regiment von Bünau, 1781 aber als Capitain im Grenadierbataillon Köhler > bezeichnet, Major im Grenadierregiment d'Angelli und im Garnisonregiment von > Bünau, seit 1794 Oberstleutnant im Garnisonregiment von Porbeck, + > Patersberg bei St.Goar, > oo Witzenhausen 21.5.1768 > GUNDLACH, Marie Elisabeth / Margarethe Elisabeth, > gt. ebd. 29.l0.1747, + ebd. 13.7.1793. > > Mich würden nun Informationen zu seiner militärischen Karriere in Amerika > (und danach) interessieren. > > Ich freue mich über jeden Hinweis. > Sonntag-Abend-Grüße aus Halle. > Stefan Hock > Bernburger Str. 27 > 06108 Halle > Tel. 0345-1701806

Hello! I am a new member, researching the surname of BERGHAUS. I have a Nicolas Berghaus who came to Nova Scotia on the ship "Sally" in 1752. He was listed as a farmer, age 36, from Darmstadt. He had a wife Gertraud but I do not know if they were married in Germany or in Nova Scotia. Would anyone have any info on this couple or know how I could go about finding a marriage record and or a record of birth for either or both? His father was perhaps Johannes Berghaus and his mother ___ Sepia. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Pat Marshall Ontario, Canada

> Hello Listers, can someone tell me where I can get church records of > Büdesheim near Frankfurt an Main? I checked the LDS site but no records for my > Büdesheim. I also tried the German town locator but I received no response. > Alan Rossing, Monterey, California, USA > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Allan again, if your STAR(C)K family is catholic, film numbers for Büdesheim Kreis (county) Bingen (in former Hessen-Darmstadt) are at http://tinyurl.com/3cqkv . Ralf

> Hello Listers, can someone tell me where I can get church records of > Büdesheim near Frankfurt an Main? I checked the LDS site but no records for my > Büdesheim. I also tried the German town locator but I received no response. > Alan Rossing, Monterey, California, USA > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Allan, there are 3 Büdesheim in Hessen listed at place search http://tinyurl.com/3dpjw . Should there be an other one? Trying Stark and Büdesheim you get some results as http://tinyurl.com/ysgye , mainly Bingen area which may include nearby Erbes-Büdesheim in former state Hessen Darmstadt, not too far away Frankfurt/Main, thus you might have a look at http://tinyurl.com/2lfk2 . I think Starck and Stark are spelling variants of the same name. Greetings, Ralf

I am trying to help an elderly friend find her Schmelzeisen ancestor. Here's what we know: Here are facts about Christina Schmelzeisen: Date of birth: Jan. 07, 1856 Date of death 1926 Date of marriage March 30, 1876 Married to John Charles Fischer (went by J. C. Fischer) Place of marriage Bacharach am Rhein They lived in Bacharach am Rhein, Germany and left from there in 1876 for the USA. They were originally of the Lutheran faith, converting to Catholicism some where along the way. Any help would be appreciated. Francine Halter

supplement to my previous reading list: The Origins of Modern Germany: Geoffrey Barraclough, Capricorn Books, New York (now out of print) The German ans Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania, A study of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch, by Oscar Kuhns. Reprinted by Heritage Classic ISBN 1-55613-197-6 available from Heritage Books The Small German Courts in the 18th Century, by Adrien Fauchier-Magnan, Methuen & Co. Ltd 36 Essex Street, Strand London (out of print may be hard to find) Patriots and Paupers, Hamburt, 1712-1830 by Mary Lindemann, Oxford University Press 1990 Across the Atlantic and Beyond, The Migration of German and Swiss Immigrants to America, by Charles R. Haller, Heritage Books Inc. 1993. Heritage Books, Inc. 1540-E Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, Maryland 20716 (301) 390-7709 The Hessians and the other German Auxiliaries of Great Britian in the Revolutionary War, by Edward J. Lowell reprinted 1997 by Corner House Historical Publications Gansevoort, New York 12831 German History 1770-1866, by James J. Sheehan, The Oxford History of Modern Europe, published by the Oxford University Pesse 1994

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathryn Howard" <km_howard@msn.com> To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:10 AM Subject: [HESSE] Good book on Rheinpfalz? > Hi - > > Can anyone recommend a good book on the Hesse - Rheinpfalz area? I have > newly-found ancestors from Neider Weisen, Wallertheim and want to know more > about the history and particulars of the region. > > Kathy Howard > The Hessian mercenary state: ideas, institutions, and reform under Frederick II, 1760-1785, Ingrao, Charles W. Cambridge University Press, 1987. SUBJECT: Hesse (Germany) -- History -- Landgraviate, 1567-1806. Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1720-1785. Capitalism, the state, and the Lutheran Reformation: sixteenth-century Hesse. Wright, William John. Athens : Ohio University Press, c1988. SUBJECT: Reformation -- Germany -- Hesse. The splintered party: national liberalism in Hessen and the Reich, 1867-1918. White, Dan S. Harvard University Press, 1976. Hesse (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918.century Indentured to liberty: peasant life and the Hessian military state, 1688-1815 Peter K. Taylor. Cornell University Press, c1994. SUBJECT: Peasantry -- Germany -- Hesse History -- 18th century. -- Armed Forces The Survival of the Hessian Nobility 1770-1870, Gregory W. Pedlow Prinston University Press Germany's Rude Awakening, Censorship in the Land of the Brothers Grimm, Frederic Ohles, Kent State University Press Georg Pausch's journal and reports of the campaign in America: as translated from the German manuscript in the Lidgerwood Collection in the Morristown National Historical Park Archives, Morristown, NJ / by Bruce E. Burgoyne. Heritage Books, 1996. Enemy views: the American Revolutionary War as recorded by the Hessian participants / compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Bruce E. Burgoyne; and with a foreword by John Gardner. Heritage Books, 1996. Notes on Hessian soldiers who remained in Canada and the United States after the American Revolution, 1775-1784. Smith, Clifford Neal. Westland Publications, 1992-<1996> Incomplete contents: pt. 1. Deserters by places of origin -- pt. 2. Deserters by regiment and company -- pt. 3. Deserters by date of defection -- pt. 4. Index to parts 1 through 3 surnames: A. Hessian troops in the American Revolution: extracts from the Hetrina, Kelly, Arthur C. M. SUBJECT: - History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries. Deserters and disbanded soldiers from British, German, and loyalist military units in the South, 1782 Smith, Clifford Neal. Westland Publications, 1991 SERIES: British-American genealogical research ; monograph no. 10 SUBJECT: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Desertions -- Registers. A Hessian diary of the American Revolution / by Johann Conrad DÞohla ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Bruce E. Burgoyne from the 1913 Bayreuth edition by W. Baron von Waldenfels. University of Oklahoma Press, c1990. Translation of: Tagebuch eines Bayreuth Soldaten des Johann Conrad DÞohla aus dem Nordamerikanischen Freiheitskrieg von 1777 bis 1783. Eighteenth century America : a Hessian report on the people, the land, the war, as noted in the diary of Chaplain Philipp Waldeck (1776-1780) / translated from Hessian Manuscript #28 of the Bancroft Collection in the New York Public Library by Bruce E. Burgoyne. Heritage Books, 1995 Geschichte des Kurstaates und KÞonigreiches Sachsen BÞottiger, Karl Wilhelm, 1790-1862. Hamburg : F. Perthes, 1830-1873. SERIES: Geschichte der europÞaischen Staaten e and published in Gotha, SUBJECT: Saxony (Germany) -- History. Saxony in German history: culture, society, and politics, 1830-1933 / edited by James Retallack ; with a foreword by Hartmut Zwahr. University of Michigan Press, c2000. SERIES: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Saxony (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- Politics and government -- Saxony Die Bewegung in Baden, von Ende des Februar 1848 bis zur Mitte des Mai 1849, von J. B. Bekk. Bekk, J. B. (Johann Baptist), 1797-1855. SUBJECT: Baden (Germany) -- History -- Revolution, 1848-1849. War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677-1793 / Peter H. Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 1995. SERIES: Cambridge studies in early modern history SUBJECT: Württemberg -- History -- 18th -- Politics and government. The nation as a local metaphor: Württemberg, imperial Germany, and national memory, 1871-1918 / Alon Confino. University of North Carolina Press, c1997. SUBJECT: Nationalism -- Germany -- Württemberg. -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. Piety and politics: religion and the rise of absolutism in England, Württemberg, and Prussia Fulbrook, Mary, 1951 Cambridge University Press, 1983. SUBJECT: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714. The making of a state: Württemberg, 1593-1793 Vann, James Allen, Cornell University Press, 1984. SUBJECT: Württemberg (Germany) -- Politics and government. Holy Roman Empire -- Politics and government. The politics of the Prussian nobility : the development of a conservative ideology, 1770-1848 / Robert M. Berdahl. Princeton University Press, c1988. SUBJECT: Prussia (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1740-1815 -- 1806-1848. A community in conflict: Frankfurt society in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gerald Lyman Published for Brandeis University Press by the University Press of New England, 1974. SUBJECT: Frankfurt am Main (Germany) -- Social conditions. -- Politics and government. German knighthood, 1050-1300 / Benjamin Arnold. Clarendon Press, 1985. SUBJECT: Knights and knighthood -- Germany -- History. Princes and territories in medieval Germany / Benjamin Arnold. Cambridge University Press, 1991. SUBJECT: Germany -- Politics and government -- To 1517. Nobility -- Germany Count and bishop in medieval Germany : a study of regional power, 1100-1350 / Benjamin Arnold. University of Pennsylvania Press, c1991. SUBJECT: Germany -- Politics and government -- To 1517. Regionalism Nobility -- Germany -- History.

Hello Listers, can someone tell me where I can get church records of Büdesheim near Frankfurt an Main? I checked the LDS site but no records for my Büdesheim. I also tried the German town locator but I received no response. Alan Rossing, Monterey, California, USA

Hi - Can anyone recommend a good book on the Hesse - Rheinpfalz area? I have newly-found ancestors from Neider Weisen, Wallertheim and want to know more about the history and particulars of the region. Kathy Howard _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee when you click here. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

Just type the city in the search box and hit search, for example, the people looking for Gross Zimmern. I entered Gross Zimmern and the city has a web site. Also enter the city and a space and then your family name - I can usually find something. johnwpfaff@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

I want to thank this list for all the help. You are all wonderful, I never expected such a response. It appears that at least some of my search might be somewhat easier than I first thought. Thanks again.

The spelling is Gross Zimmern and the FHL has church records on microfilm four you to view at a Family History Center near you. Catholic records 1718-1876 and Lutheran 1640-1876. This town is about 5 miles east of Darmstadt. Sue Foster Co-Director FHC Puyallup Washington South Stake

Gross-Zimmern (or correctly Groß-Zimmern) is just about 6 miles from my place. I.E. east of the City of Darmstadt. Heinz ----- Original Message ----- From: "George & Jackie" <jafm1@patmedia.net> To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:43 AM Subject: [HESSE] Grosszimmen > I'm new to the list, having just discovered that this is where I need to be. Grandmother and Aunt spoke about family being from Darmstadt and Hesse. Just received grgrandfathers declaration of intent and the place of residence is given as Grosszimmen. Can't find it on a map; did a Google search and a few other things but came up with nothing. Has anyone come across that place name? > > Thanks. > Jackie > > > ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== > Going on Vacation? Longer than 4 days? Go to > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/HESSE.html > to unsubscribe > >

Try Gross Zimmern, 10 miles east of Darmstadt. John W Pfaff --- George & Jackie <jafm1@patmedia.net> wrote: > I'm new to the list, having just discovered that > this is where I need to be. Grandmother and Aunt > spoke about family being from Darmstadt and Hesse. > Just received grgrandfathers declaration of intent > and the place of residence is given as Grosszimmen. > Can't find it on a map; did a Google search and a > few other things but came up with nothing. Has > anyone come across that place name? > > Thanks. > Jackie > > > ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== > Going on Vacation? Longer than 4 days? Go to > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/HESSE.html > to unsubscribe > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

The FHL has microfilms of Wallertheim, Hessen, for 1677-1916 and for Nieder Weisen, Hessen, 1702-1879. Sue Foster Co-Director FHC Puyallup Washington South Stake

I'm new to the list, having just discovered that this is where I need to be. Grandmother and Aunt spoke about family being from Darmstadt and Hesse. Just received grgrandfathers declaration of intent and the place of residence is given as Grosszimmen. Can't find it on a map; did a Google search and a few other things but came up with nothing. Has anyone come across that place name? Thanks. Jackie