I'm looking for the Christening/birth record of Georg Christian Moog born 18 Sep 1834 possibly in Rotenburg an der Fulda in Hesse. His parents were Christian Moog and Elisabeth (Hofmeister?). They came to the US 23 Jun 1853 on the ship Republik. The FHLC catalog only has church records starting in 1868 for that town. And I'm not inclined to ask a local person in Germany to search for people who may not even have lived there. The problem is every time George gave his birth community, the spelling changed, and most of the variations are real places. (Rodenburg, Rothenburg, Rotenburg, Kreis-Rotenburg, Rottenburg). The immigration and naturalization papers only give Hesse Darmstadt as his place of origin. Where can I look next? Christina
Are you quite sure of the name? Could it be Moogk instead, now more commonly Mogk? Lots around the Grebenau, Alsfeld area Have a list of some earlier families but no help to you unless you have an earlier name. > I'm looking for the Christening/birth record of Georg Christian Moog > born 18 Sep > 1834 possibly in Rotenburg an der Fulda in Hesse. His parents were Christian > Moog and Elisabeth (Hofmeister?). They came to the US 23 Jun 1853 on the ship > Republik. > > The FHLC catalog only has church records starting in 1868 for that > town. And I'm > not inclined to ask a local person in Germany to search for people > who may not > even have lived there. > > > The problem is every time George gave his birth community, the > spelling changed, > and most of the variations are real places. (Rodenburg, Rothenburg, > Rotenburg, > Kreis-Rotenburg, Rottenburg). The immigration and naturalization papers only > give Hesse Darmstadt as his place of origin. > > Where can I look next? > > Christina > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > Regional Genelaogy Web Site - Wilmot, SEH, NEH, EZ, WZ, Huron Tract, etc http://tavistock.net/Genealogy Genealogy Forum http://tavistock.net/Forum/ Submit data to: admin@Tavistock.net