http://26.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HE/HESSE_NASSAU.htm will tell you what and where Hesse Nassau is. I do not know of a book specifically on the history of Nassau. You can go to the 1911encyclopedia.org home page and navigate to the article on Nassau, otherwise you will have to settle for general histories of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. ----- Original Message ----- From: <blue@nmo.net> To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:46 AM Subject: [HESSE] Nassau > If someoe can provide info and direction, I would appreciate it. I don't expect anyone to do my work. First, is there a book available with the history of the Duchy of Nassau? Secondly, this is the problem. There was very little info passed down in the family as to to origin of my great grandparents. They came to the U.S. in August,1871 purportedly sailing from Liverpool on the ship "Abbysinia" to New York City. They then came to Iowa. On the 1870 U.S. census, birthplace for them is listed as Nassau and married in Baden. This is all that is known about them. I am the oldest of this family and I'm trying to establish their origin for my children and nephews and nieces. Any direction would be truly apppreciated. Thank you. Cas Endlein. > > > ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== > Postal Codes, How to Pay for Research, German Language > Letters, Archive Addresses, German Telephone directory, > http://members.cox.net/hessen/table.htm >

You might try entering "Hesse Nassau" in a search at http://Google.com . I found a hundred pages on the subject. First one I looked at was at http://www.infoplease.com/search.php3?query=Hesse+nassau&in=all&x=11&y=7 Nelson //////////////////////////////////// ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rorer" <drorer@fuse.net> To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Nassau > http://26.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HE/HESSE_NASSAU.htm will tell you what and where Hesse > Nassau is. I do not know of a book specifically on the history of Nassau. You can go to > the 1911encyclopedia.org home page and navigate to the article on Nassau, otherwise you > will have to settle for general histories of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <blue@nmo.net> > To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:46 AM > Subject: [HESSE] Nassau > > > > If someoe can provide info and direction, I would appreciate it. I don't expect anyone > to do my work. First, is there a book available with the history of the Duchy of Nassau? > Secondly, this is the problem. There was very little info passed down in the family as to > to origin of my great grandparents. They came to the U.S. in August,1871 purportedly > sailing from Liverpool on the ship "Abbysinia" to New York City. They then came to Iowa. > On the 1870 U.S. census, birthplace for them is listed as Nassau and married in Baden. > This is all that is known about them. I am the oldest of this family and I'm trying to > establish their origin for my children and nephews and nieces. Any direction would be > truly apppreciated. Thank you. Cas Endlein.

Interestingly enough I do not recall ever doing a "goggle" for Hesse Nassau, probably because it is perfreial to my main interests, the city of Frankfurt/M and the two Hessen. So out of cureosity I did one. I must say that the results were dissapointing. I did come across an interesting flag site, which I had seen before, but has been since updated considerably. However, only in the first two pages of hits were there any directly related to Hesse-Nassau. That of infoplease had far less information than the 1911 encylopedia britannica site and the rest of the hits trailled off into pages about Hesse, Frankfurt, various towns in Hesse and trourism information. No books came up, and I went through about ten pages of hits, by which time they were clearly off subject. It was a nice try though and Nelson is to be commended for his suggestion. David Rorer ----- Original Message ----- From: Nelson Sulouff To: David Rorer ; HESSE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:15 AM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Nassau You might try entering "Hesse Nassau" in a search at http://Google.com . I found a hundred pages on the subject. First one I looked at was at http://www.infoplease.com/search.php3?query=Hesse+nassau&in=all&x=11&y=7 Nelson //////////////////////////////////// ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rorer" <drorer@fuse.net> To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Nassau > http://26.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HE/HESSE_NASSAU.htm will tell you what and where Hesse > Nassau is. I do not know of a book specifically on the history of Nassau. You can go to > the 1911encyclopedia.org home page and navigate to the article on Nassau, otherwise you > will have to settle for general histories of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <blue@nmo.net> > To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:46 AM > Subject: [HESSE] Nassau > > > > If someoe can provide info and direction, I would appreciate it. I don't expect anyone > to do my work. First, is there a book available with the history of the Duchy of Nassau? > Secondly, this is the problem. There was very little info passed down in the family as to > to origin of my great grandparents. They came to the U.S. in August,1871 purportedly > sailing from Liverpool on the ship "Abbysinia" to New York City. They then came to Iowa. > On the 1870 U.S. census, birthplace for them is listed as Nassau and married in Baden. > This is all that is known about them. I am the oldest of this family and I'm trying to > establish their origin for my children and nephews and nieces. Any direction would be > truly apppreciated. Thank you. Cas Endlein.