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

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