Family name? Your email brought up a question I've been postponing for quite a while. My great-great-great-grandfather, Franklin (Francis) Lauffer-Laufer-Lawfer-Lauver, 1796-bet 1860-1870, came to the United States with his second wife, Barbara, and three children, John, Valentine, and Magdalena, in 1831. Found mention of Franklin/Francis and his family in various Blair county records in the 1840s-1850s-1860s, and then gone. Genealogy of the James and Catherine Miller Family, by Allan Miller, c 1987 When Franklin was 35 years old, he left Germany with several fellow countrymen to seek his fortune in the new world. He brought with him his infant daughter Magdalena and a two-year old son, Valentine. Family lore indicates that their mother (sic-Magdalena Dulnier) died shortly before the Lauffers left Germany. Upon their arrival in America, hard times forced the family to split. Valentine stayed with his father and Magdalena was sent to live with a relative. Fortunately they all settled in Poplar Run, Pa. near Puzzletown and were close enough to visit and know their relationship. (Further research leads me to believe the "hard times" were in part two children, born 1833 and 1835, with his second wife Barbara.) Philip Krug and Magdalena Lauffer were married February 7, 1850 (yeah, my birthday), and Ledoux's 1858 baptismal record for their daughter, Eva Christina Krug, shows: Philippus, native of Bavaria, Memmlingen, Wurzburg/Magdalena Laufer, native of Hesse, Ensenheim-on-Rhein, Mainz. For Philip, home was Mömlingen, Unterfranken, Bavaria, Germany. For Magdalena, home was Ensenheim-Rhein, Mainz, Hesse, Germany. Essenheim is a tiny vallage, located along a stretch of the Rhine River, about 35 miles from Bonn. My reason for listing all this information is that at one point, and I can't find the records right now, I looked at the 1860 census records for Blair and Carrolltown, Cambria county, and saw several people in both locatities that listed the birthplace of Hesse (and possibly the same as saying from Pennsylvania, or at least Rhode Island). Have often wondered how many might have been the "fellow countrymen" mentioned in family stories. > From: bwissinger@buckeye-express.com > To: tomil23@hotmail.com; pablair@rootsweb.com; paallegh@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:06:56 -0400 > Subject: Re: [PABLAIR] German research? > > Have you checked out Don Watson's Hesse web site at > <http://members.cox.net/hessen/>? He has all kinds of tips, links, > references, how-to's and will even help individuals......... > > Regards, > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: pablair-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pablair-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Tomi Larson > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 5:23 PM > To: Blair Rootsweb; Allegheny Rootsweb > Subject: [PABLAIR] German research? > > > > Hello List, My g g grandfather was born in Hesse Darmstadt in 1827, > according to the census. I have exhausted every resource I can think of to > figure out who his parents might be. I am wondering if anyone has knowledge > of how to obtain records from Germany, and where I might write to for this > region? I know I could use LDS records, but I would like to learn how to > find records in Germany. I would appreciate any advice! > Tomi > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with > Hotmail. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID283 > 26::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 > To subscribe, unsubscribe or visit the PABLAIR mailing list archives, go to > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/PA/blair.html > To sign up for the Daily Uploads mailing list of PA USGenWeb Archives, go to > http://www.usgwarchives.net/mailman/listinfo/padailyuploads > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PABLAIR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > -------------------------------------------- > My mailbox is spam-free with ChoiceMail, the leader in personal and corporate anti-spam solutions. Download your free copy of ChoiceMail from www.digiportal.com > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or visit the PABLAIR mailing list archives, go to http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/PA/blair.html > To sign up for the Daily Uploads mailing list of PA USGenWeb Archives, go to http://www.usgwarchives.net/mailman/listinfo/padailyuploads > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PABLAIR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message