Hi When I needed information on my grandfather's family, I wrote directly to the church and got generations of family information. I don't think it was too expensive either. I doesn't hurt to try. NC In a message dated 1/22/2011 4:52:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, user917826@aol.com writes: Hi.. In the 1880 census, my gggrandmother, Maria Heck stated that her family came from Frankfurt Au Main. Actually her father was from Gros-Karben. The problem I face is that I am forced to find researchers as the early records of the church (bef. 1800) are not filmed by the LDS. While I have gained some knowledge of the Heck paternal line, I have not gotten much on maternal families. I have used two researchers over the past several years. I got a small report from both with the promise of more, then nothing. I still would like to find information on the maternal families of Bronst and Bauer and whatever else might be related to our Heck family. Again, I am probably going to have to coax a researcher as I have not dealt with the church directly. Any ideas how I might get this info on my own would be greatly appreciated. Needless to say, my German is TERRIBLE! Bev W -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Cochran <kathys_old_house@goldrush.com> To: hesse <hesse@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, Jan 22, 2011 2:55 pm Subject: Re: [HESSE] Hessian Dialect Thanks for the link! Kathy -----Original Message----- rom: hesse-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:hesse-bounces@rootsweb.com] On ehalf Of Bobbi ent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:29 AM o: hesse@rootsweb.com ubject: Re: [HESSE] Hessian Dialect Hi Kathy, http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/en/Default.aspx Bobbi ---- Original Message ----- rom: "Kathy Cochran" o: "'Arden'"; <hesse@rootsweb.com> ent: 22 January, 2011 2:13 PM ubject: 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 ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in he subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message ------------------------------- 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