My German ancestors came from Oldenberg, thru Bremerhaven (port) to Charlotte, NC, One went to New York and the other brother came down to New Orleans in 1836. Karen Riecke Covington, LA ________________________________ From: Helen Smith <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, October 2, 2010 10:51:08 AM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Jacob Born/Wilhelmina Rice Marriage Aug 3 OR 5, 1854 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA Jan and all, I have been trying to figure out where my great-grandfather, Hermann E. Lehmann born 1805 in Berlin, Prussia (according to tombstone at St. Louis #3 cemetery.......where he may have caught the ship out of Prussia/Germany in about 1835.  He shows up in New Orleans with Philippe Cioffi at a musical concert.  He is listed in city directory as a musician and "played at soirees".  I have looked at a CD that has immigrants to New Orleans from Germany with no luck. A reply from the William's Research Center said that he most likely came through New York as they could not find him on what records they had. Does anyone know what port in Germany that he most likely would have embarked from?  Does anyone have German ancestors who came to New Orleans around 1805?  I am wondering what ...historically...was going on about then in Germany to prompt them to come to America at that time. Any incite appreciated. Helen Lehmann Smith Waco, TX -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jan Strickland" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:57 PM To: "LAOrleans" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Jacob Born/Wilhelmina Rice Marriage  Aug 3 OR 5,1854 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA > Let me add to what Cate has said.  My Baumgartner's came through La Harve > from Alsace-Lorraine according to my Grandfather, > per his mother and father. My grandfather said Alsace-Lorraine was the > german part of Switzerland".  Whatever that means. > > My GGgrandfather was sometimes Swiss, sometimes German who married a lady > born in Habana, Cuba. They came to NOLA in > the early 1800's, he in 1836, she in 1830-31.  The census records mostly > said Switzerland and Cuba.  So that's what I use. > > Enjoy the search, and I, too, will search until I can search no more and > have already told my husband and my daughter what to > do with all these books, records, notebooks, etc, that continue to clutter > my little office. > > Enjoy the search > > Jan Baumgartner Strickland - Orlando, FL > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Cate Schweitzer-Toepfer > Date: 9/30/2010 4:05:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Jacob Born/Wilhelmina Rice Marriage Aug 3 OR > 5,1854 > New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA > > Hi Kathy, > You have discovered the most common synonym for genealogy --- the word > "perplexed"!  Most of us have many bouts of "perplexation" in our > research. > > You need to look at maps of Europe at the time of your investigation. > Germany didn't really even exist then.  It was a bunch of small political > subdivisions (Konigreich, Herzogtum, etc.) which regularly fought with one > another for territory.  So one day someone could be Prussian, tomorrow > Polish, etc and if they were from the "bach" country they may have been 10 > "sort of nationalities" before even knowing something had changed. Or > maybe > the change is why they left. > > My surname is SCHWEITZER, which roughly means "shepard" or "herder"  or > someone from Switzerland.  That g-g father was from Althornbach in > Bavaria > which is in now southern Germany, but maybe then it was part of > Switzerland. > He was a member of one of the New Orleans German singing societies ---  > maybe > he could yodel, but I didn't inherit his talent<g>. > > .......................................................................... > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------- 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