Folks- How quickly we forget how to locate towns even though you might not know how to spell them correctly. You even get your choice of maps! http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp Rob Hausman At 03:49 PM 3/4/2009, you wrote: >Albersloh, Wesfalen >48324 Sendenhorst >ADAC MaxiAtlas, Deutschland, Page & Coordinate Map Location: 83-F3 > >Budescheim, Reinhausen, Hess (also, see spelling: Büdesheim) >Budesheim Lat: 50.2166667 Long: 8.8333333 > >Büdesheim >54610 129-E5 (on Highway 410, between Prüm and Gerolstein) > >Two other villages with the same name: >55411 Bingen am Rhein 145-G2 >61137 Schüneck 133-E5 > >The ADAC MaxiAtlas can be ordered over the Internet and is relatively >inexpensive. I recommend it. It comes in two sizes; I use the larger size >which is 11.5" x 16". >Also, I use the Global Gazetteer which can be accessed via the following >URL: >http://www.fallingrain.com/world/ >Also, you can look up your towns on Google Maps > >Rudy Flack >Saint Louis, Missouri USA > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Thierry Dietrich >Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:33 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [HESSE] Locating towns in Germany > >Hi all, > >for locating towns in Germany I recommend using Google Maps. It is a great >tool. > >Often, however, the american spellings of german towns are wrong. This may >make it more difficult for you to find a town. > >For instance neither the below mentioned town "Budescheim" does exist nor a >town "Reinhausen" in Hessen. There is a Reinhausen close to Göttingen in >today's Land of Niedersachsen. May be this one once belonged to Hessen? >However, I could not find anything close to Budescheim in its >proximity (there is another town with slightly different >spelling: Rheinhausen on the border to Alsace, but this is not even close to >Hessen, but rather part of the former Grandduchy of Baden). > >Some towns disappeared over time, but Reinhausen, according to my >understanding, seems to be a larger town. Larger towns were not easily >abandonned, so should still exist today. Also try Rheinhausen. But there > >I have no clue how to help you there. > >More easy is Albersloh, which indeed lays in Westfalen (please take care, >again a misspelling in your file). Special to Westfalen was, that most of >the family names were derived from the name of the Farm where people lived. >When they moved to another farm (for instance after marriage), they then >changed their family name to the one of the new farm where they settled. >Only in the 19th century this was abolished by law and the family names were >"frozen". Thus I would try to locate a farm called Wildemann. This could >have been the origin of this line. There are a lot of little towns or farms >ending with -mann around Albersloh, but I haven't yet found Wildemann. You >may like to follow this trace with a local archive or genealogist. There is >a Westfalen-list in german language. Google it and try to contact somebody >there. > >Good luck, regards, > >Thierry > > >Dr. Thierry P. Dietrich > >D-61250 Usingen > > > > >________________________________ >Von: Ginger Willmann <[email protected]> >An: Hesse Rootsweb <[email protected]> >Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 4. März 2009, 14:49:37 Uhr >Betreff: [HESSE] where to search > > >I have been enjoying all the information about emigration papers and where >to look. I am sorry to say I do not know much about German geography. I have >found that my husband's grt grt grandfather Gerard Henrich Wildemann was >born in Albersloh, Wesfalen, Preussen in 1832. I can find nothing about >ships, papers etc. He next shows up in the 1860 census of Texas. Could >someone tell me what to do next. Also where is Budescheim, Reinhausen, >Hesse? His wife Anna Wink was born there. (they married in Texas).Thank you >very much. > >Ginger > >_________________________________________________________________ >Windows Live™: Life without walls. >http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_032009 > >------------------------------- >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 > > > > > >------------------------------- >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 > > > >------------------------------- >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 ********************************* Robert E. Hausman Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Biology Boston University 5 Cummington Street Boston, MA 02215 USA e-mail: [email protected] phone: 617 353-2470 fax: 617 353-6340

The discussion on locating towns in Germany reminded me of a question I've been meaning to answer. Some time ago I came across the following map http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/NSAC/SLP/map.html for Schaumberg-Lippe. One of the best features for me is the fact that it shows which villages had churches and which did not. If a village I'm interested in doesn't have a church I can easily see which nearby villages had the church they most likely attended. Are there maps like this for other parts of Germany? Thanks! Joel http://www.rafert.org/home

There was an U.S. resource in the net, kind of a table or spreadsheet, which listed all towns and what parish they belonged to. I can remember it was available for some regions I do research in. May be somebody over here has a link at hand for Joel? Regards, Thierry   Dr. Thierry P. Dietrich D-61250 Usingen ________________________________ Von: Joel S. Russell <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 4. März 2009, 22:16:08 Uhr Betreff: [HESSE] Locating Churches - Maps The discussion on locating towns in Germany reminded me of a question I've been meaning to answer.  Some time ago I came across the following map http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/NSAC/SLP/map.html for Schaumberg-Lippe.  One of the best features for me is the fact that it shows which villages had churches and which did not.  If a village I'm interested in doesn't have a church I can easily see which nearby villages had the church they most likely attended.  Are there maps like this for other parts of Germany? Thanks! Joel http://www.rafert.org/home ------------------------------- 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

Hi Thierry, Do you mean: http://www.progenealogists.com/ ??? Bobbi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thierry Dietrich" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Locating Churches - Maps There was an U.S. resource in the net, kind of a table or spreadsheet, which listed all towns and what parish they belonged to. I can remember it was available for some regions I do research in. May be somebody over here has a link at hand for Joel? Regards, Thierry Dr. Thierry P. Dietrich D-61250 Usingen ________________________________ Von: Joel S. Russell <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 4. März 2009, 22:16:08 Uhr Betreff: [HESSE] Locating Churches - Maps The discussion on locating towns in Germany reminded me of a question I've been meaning to answer. Some time ago I came across the following map http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/NSAC/SLP/map.html for Schaumberg-Lippe. One of the best features for me is the fact that it shows which villages had churches and which did not. If a village I'm interested in doesn't have a church I can easily see which nearby villages had the church they most likely attended. Are there maps like this for other parts of Germany? Thanks! Joel http://www.rafert.org/home ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.7/1983 - Release Date: 03/04/09 07:41:00