Hi Kathy, http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/en/Default.aspx Bobbi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Cochran" To: "'Arden'"; <hesse@rootsweb.com> Sent: 22 January, 2011 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Hessian Dialect > Hello, Arden, > > Thank you for your kind reply, and your encouragement as well. Sometimes > it > just gets so discouraging - continuing to bang my head up against so many > brick walls. > > One question that keeps bugging me is why these people that emigrated > never > talked very much about the towns or villages from whence they came. > > Also, another question - that someone out there will know. There is > another German name that I want to find out where they were from. My > mother > was a GIFFELS, which apparently came from only a very small part of > Germany. > I believe that there is a way to find out what areas the name pops up in. > Does anyone have that link handy? > > Thanks again for the encouragement.......... > > > > Kathy Cochran
Thanks for the link! Kathy -----Original Message----- From: hesse-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:hesse-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bobbi Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:29 AM To: hesse@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HESSE] Hessian Dialect Hi Kathy, http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/en/Default.aspx Bobbi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Cochran" To: "'Arden'"; <hesse@rootsweb.com> Sent: 22 January, 2011 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Hessian Dialect > Hello, Arden, > > Thank you for your kind reply, and your encouragement as well. Sometimes > it > just gets so discouraging - continuing to bang my head up against so many > brick walls. > > One question that keeps bugging me is why these people that emigrated > never > talked very much about the towns or villages from whence they came. > > Also, another question - that someone out there will know. There is > another German name that I want to find out where they were from. My > mother > was a GIFFELS, which apparently came from only a very small part of > Germany. > I believe that there is a way to find out what areas the name pops up in. > Does anyone have that link handy? > > Thanks again for the encouragement.......... > > > > Kathy Cochran ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message