-----Original Message----- From: Tracy Jones <ptjones@scican.net> Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 9:32 AM Subject: Fw: [INFRANKLI-L] Re: Germans to Franklin Co. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Lucy Weaver <north@defnet.com> >To: INFRANKLI-L@rootsweb.com <INFRANKLI-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 7:15 AM >Subject: [INFRANKLI-L] Re: Germans to Franklin Co. > > >>Tom: Can't answer your questions abt. books or studies on the Germans to >>Frnaklin Co.IN., but my gt. granfather Herman B. RULMANN, Sr. immigr. in >>1865 from Messingen, Hanover, Germany & first came to Cinci.OH., & then to >>Oldenburg, where he bought a flouring mill. Another ancestor John Henry >>BROKAMP was in Oldenburg by 1840 or before. He immigr. from Steinfeld, >>Oldenburg, Germany abt. 1834, first to Cinci., OH. then to Oldenburg. Lucy >>Weaver, Defiance,OH. north@defnet.com >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Dr. Thomas G. Wack <drwackes@hgo.net> >>To: INFRANKLI-L@rootsweb.com <INFRANKLI-L@rootsweb.com> >>Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 9:41 AM >>Subject: Unidentified subject! >> >> >>>Does anyone know of books or articles about the German immigrants to >>>Franklin and the nearby counties? Such as studies done on the Germans of >>>Cincinnati. >>> >>>Obviously, during certain periods there were large influxes of Germans to >>>parts of southern Indiana. Why did they come there? Did they tend to >come >>>only from certain areas or states in Germany? In what years were their >>>numbers the strongest? Did they tend to be artisans, or were they >>farmers? >>> >>>Tom Wack >>> >> >> >