Please remove this email address from your mail listing!!! My sister used to use this for her email and now she has her own email address (kittycat@access.mountain.net). Please forward information to her!!! At 08:06 AM 1/10/00 -0500, you wrote: >Some years ago when it was believed every American Kimmel just HAD to be related >to Johann Michael of Gimbsheim, there was the conjecture that the Johann Jacob >who came to Philadelphia in 1750 and died near Orwigsburg, PA in 1793 was a son >of Johann Michael's brother Johann Georg. > >Alsheim and Eich church records (those on microfilm in Salt Lake City) don't show >that Johann Georg had a son Johann Jacob. He had at least three wives: Maria >Salome who died in 1722, Anna Maria (last name illegible) whom he married in >Alsheim in 1722 and who died in 1737 in Eich, and Anna Maria Dorothea Maüer >(there's that "Alt 129" letter ü again) whom he married at Alsheim in 1741 and by >whom his son Rudolph was born in Eich in 1742. Christoph and Johannes who raised >their families in Eich were probably also his sons, by his first wife. >Christoph's third known wife got her permit to emigrate out of the Palatinate in >1764. Did she go to America? Did she take any of the children? I haven't found >any evidence yet. > >--Tim in Fort Wayne >========================== > >PamChowdr2@aol.com wrote: > >> Tim, I was just browsing through the Ancestral File at www.familysearch.org >> and I noticed that someone submitted info that Johann George, the brother of >> Johann Michael, had a son named Johann Jacob, who was born in Germany abt >> 1720 an died in PA abt 1793. Is this the same Johann Jacob that you have >> listed as "AA" in your lineage summary? Who knows if the submitter actually >> has any evidence to back up the connection, but it's the first time I've seen >> any descendants listed for the brother of Johann Michael. >> >> ~ Pamela > > >