You may visit the Frankfurt City Archives (Institut für Stadtgeschichte) http://www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de/ Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "David J Zimbrich" <david.j.zimbrich@zimbrich.com> To: <hesse@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 1:00 AM Subject: [HESSE] Johann Zimbrich of Frankfurt am Main > > All: > > I have been researching my family for about eight years now and have run > into a bit of a road block. I am searching for any records for my > great-grand-father Johann A. Zimbrich born 13-Mar-1853 I believe in > Frankfurt am Main. I have a birth certificate of my great-aunt > indicating he > was Hessen and born in Frankfurt am Main. His death certificate > indicates > his father was Jacob Zimbrich. Johann came to Chicago around 1877. He > died > 16-Jan-1911 and is buried in Bethania Cemetery in Justice, IL. I have > extensive records from 1877 on but cannot locate a link back to Germany. > I > have a few leads on passenger manifests but the dates don't seem to line > up > quite right. Also, the 1880 US Census listed Johann Zimbrecht in Cook > County, IL so that could possibly be an alternate spelling, but I am > pretty > sure Zimbrich is correct. > > I am traveling for business to Frankfurt in July and hope to meet up > with > some people I met online with the same name, but we cannot establish a > family link definitively. But these Zimbrich's are from the > Pfungstadt/Damstadt area which seems promising. > > So, what I am asking for is if anyone might have information on a > Zimbrich > family from Hesse (Frankfurt area) or if anyone has suggestions on where > I > might try to look while in Frankfurt. Thanks in advance! > > Dave Zimbrich > > Plainfield, IL > > ------------------------------- > 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