Our Schuylkill County forebears were from listed from Kur Hessen my grt grt grandfather was a miner in Minersville, he came to the Pottsville are 1844. When we determined who was related in the region I ordered from the Pottsville City Hall the natuarization papers for the boys from Pottsville as well as Ashland which is next town over. After examining we found two that put them in Bieber/Burburg but not all of them where found to be from Bieber some were from Gelnhausen on the records from the German Speaking RC Church they attended. The mountains going North to South Seppsrat and the valley where major mining areas for hundred's of years, mainly lots of copper mines along that area as well as in Bavaria on the far side of the mountains. Marie