It was always my belief that Germans were Lutherans also. My German ancestors who settled in Pennsylvania wereLutheran, and the Germans I grew up with in the German settlement of Jackson Co., IN were also Lutheran. However, now that I have moved to south Texas, I have found that there are German Catholics also. Recently my daughter and I were researching some family records of her husband's Mexican Catholic family through a Catholic church in Victoria, TX and were told by the Sister that one of the Catholic churchs in town was a German church so there was no use for us to go there to look for records. That was a surprise to me. Ardath Blue Edna, TX RM>Clara, RM>I'm glad I was able to help. RM>Have one of my "Food for Thought" things, however ... RM>You said that your Mathias MUELLER/MILLER was probably a Catholic. When we RM>moved here (Effingham, IL.) over 20 years ago, we found mostly German RM>Catholics who lived here. My grandmother (will be 97 this year), and knows RM>a good deal about religion (Sunday School teacher for 20 years, etc.) was RM>amazed when she learned that the Germans here were Catholic. She said that RM>normally she had always found where (at least in her younger days) that they RM>were ALWAYS LUTHERAN. She was quite adamant about it. I never questioned RM>her, but have always wondered about this. Maybe someone else on the List RM>will know more. RM>In the same WASHINGTON CO. SPECIAL (#1) by Naomi Keith Sexton, under RM>CHURCHES (pg. 8) . . . RM>LUTHERAN CHURCH "Among the early emigrants to this county there were a RM>number of Germans who were members of the Lutheran Church." Then, she goes RM>on to talk about the organizations of the Lutherans, but how due to other RM>churches coming in, and their revivals which succeeded in enrolling many of RM>the Lutherans under their banners, the few who remained faithful to the RM>church, seeing that an organization could no longer be maintained, sold the RM>property, and that was the end of the church in Washington Co. She gave no RM>date when this happened. RM>I know how difficult it is to research Germans in Washington Co, as there RM>didn't seem to be many there. My ancestor, Aaron N. ZIGLER, a German, was RM>in Washington Co. (md: Barbary Ann PAVEY, 1856 there.) I can find RM>absolutely nothing else about him! I remember seeing something somewhere RM>(have to check my notes) that a Zigler did marry a Miller, early, in that RM>part of Indiana. Have you ever come across the ZIGLER name in your research RM>of the MILLER's? RM>Hope I didn't confuse you on the Catholic - Lutheran topic. RM>Marsha McWilliams RM>==== KENTUCKIANA Mailing List ==== RM>A job is nice, but it interferes with genealogy research.