For years we thought they were Huguenots then another researcher told me they were really waldensians. I need to do some more research to see if the two groups were related in some way. In an old journal written between after 1953 one of the relatives referers to the Berts as huguenots. It was my understanding they moved from Italy to France and then Germany because of religous prosecution. Thanks deb ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Bert > In a message dated 3/23/2009 11:25:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > 1. Paul Joseph Bert b. 1694 m Anne Christine Rambaut + Bon ect.spelling. > Debbie: > You might be right on the track with the French Huguenots in the > Frankfurt area. > Had a cousin who wrote about his lines in that area. > And many of our Waldensians did settle in South.Ohio and KY. I have a > book on them > but only from the BW region. But many of them are related and they went > back and forth. > Mannheim had a list too. Might be in the rootsweb archives few yrs ago. > Found only 2 Rohrbach's in North.Baden,1close to Heidelberg it says and > 1 > close to Sinsheim. > There is a Gross-Rohrheim ?close to Nordheim,Biblis,Bensheim. > > Doris. > **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 > or > less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >