This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Biltz, Bilz, Franz, Frantz, Trageser, Kleinfelder, Huth, Lui, Schilling, Hufnagel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3dB.2ACI/1287.1299.2763.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello, below the long list of emigrants. As I already told you, I think, some of these emigrants could have gone to Franklin County, Indiana.They had a lot of children and there must be descendants. Freigericht is composed of Altenmittlau, Horbach, Neuses, Bernbach, Somborn, and belonged in the past to Prussia. The region is strictly catholic - still today. Hasselroth is consisting of Niedermittlau, Neuenhasslau, and Gondsroth – and protestant. So when your Bechtholds are not catholic, it is not probable that they came from Altenmittlau. In the telephone book I found a lot of Becht(h)olds in Hasselroth. The following list was not made by myself, for these church records are difficult to read and in Latin. Emigrants from Altenmittlau to America in the 19th century >From the marriage register from the church records of Altenmittlau (now: Freigericht, 15 m East of Francfort in Hesse): (Abbreviations: b = born, m = married, em = emigrated, p. = parents, d = died. Sequence of names: family name, given name. Some of these people are related to one another, so it seems probable, that they emigrated into the same region. People from that region of Germany are catholics.) Franz, Christian, b. 16. Jan. 1806, p. Jakob and Christine, m. 19. May 1835 Spahn, Maria Anna, b. 26. Jan. 1813, p. Johannes and Maria Anna, nee Seipel, em. 1857 with 4 children. Schilling, Johannes (smith), b 31. Dec. 1806, p. Peter and Gertrud, m. 3. Mar. 1835 Trageser, Anna Katharina, b. 17. Jun. 1814 in Altenmittlau, p. Nikolaus and Katharina, em. 1853 with 7 children. Franz, Andreas (shoemaker), b. 14. Apr. 1806, p. Johann and Anna Maria, m. 11 Feb. 1836 Trageser, Gertrud, b. 19. Apr. 1816, p. Konrad and Josepha, em. in March 1853 with 5 children. Kleinfelder, Johannes (farmer), b. 19. Apr. 1811, p. Heinrich and Elisabeth, m. 11 Feb. 1836 Schilling, Ursula, b. 28. Jan. 1811, p. Müller, Konrad, and Eva (not clear, what theat means, her father's name could not be Müller, when her name was Schilling, maybe Müller (=miller) was the profession of her father, or that was her 2nd marriage, and her 1st husband's name was Schilling), em. 1847 with 4 children. Lui, Andreas, b. 11. Dec. 1799, p. Konrad and Elisabeth, m. 27. Mar 1802? (1822 is more probable) Dressbach, Catharina Margaretha, b. 27. Mar. 1802, p. Johann and Margarethe from Lieblos (near Freigericht), em. 1847 with 4 children. Bilz V., Andreas (V means 5, they had 5 people with the same name Andreas Bilz, so they gave them numbers, this also occurs with some of the following people), b. 15 Apr. 1801, p. Nikolaus and Gertrud, m. 27. Feb. 1838 Kleinfelder, Elisabeth, b. 12. Dec. 1813, p. Heinrich and Elisabeth, em. 1847 with 4 children. Franz, Kilian, b. 25. Nov. 1810, p. Jakob and Margaretha, m. 20 Oct. 1838 Catharina Schneider, b. 1. Dec. 1814 in Altenmittlau, p. Johann Georg and Eva, em. 1847 with 3 children. Lui, Johannes, b. 26. Jul. 1804, p. Konrad and Elisabeth, m. 29. Jan. 1839 Geist, Anna Dorothea, b. 22. Apr. 1812, p. Johann and Gertrud, em. 1847 with 4 children. Lui, Christian, b. 16. Jan 1810, p. Konrad and Elisabeth, m. 14. Jun. 1839 Schneider, Anna Margaretha Henrietta, b. 31. Mar. 1816, p. Andreas and Margaretha, em. 1817? (more probable 1847) with 4 children. Trageser, Peter, b. 30. Jan. 1813, p. Johann Adam and Margarethe, m. 18. Feb. 1841 Trageser, Catharina, b. 24. Apr. 1822, died 30. Oct. 1856, p. Konrad III and Eva, em. 1860 with 4 children. Rack, Konrad, b. 9. Mar. 1815, p. Konrad and Elisabeth, m. 27. Jan. 1842 Biba, Magdalena, b. 26. Jan. 1820, p. Georg and Gertrud, em. 1847 with 2 children. Franz, Peter, b. 8. May 1813, p. Johann and Maria Anna, m. 8. Feb. 1844 Trageser, Maria Antonia, b. 10. Feb. 1822, p. Konrad IV. and Josepha, em. 1847 with 1 child. Huth, Heinrich, b. 17. Mar. 1820, p. Lorenz and Anna Maria, m. 13. Feb. 1844 Trageser, Elisabeth, b. 16. Sept. 1824 in Altenmittlau, p. Heinrich and Magdalena, em. 1847 with 1 child. Anton, Heinrich, b. 18. Jun. 1820, p. Georg and Elisabeth, m. 2. Mar. 1846 Trageser, Catharina, b. 4. Jul. 1825 in Altenmittlau, p. Konrad and Josepha, em. 1847 with 1 child. Hufnagel, Friedrich, b. 6. Oct. 1820, p. Lorenz and Margarethe, m. 19. Feb. 1846 Schneider, Eva, b. 16. Oct. 1818 in Somborn, mother Anna Maria, em. with 1 child. Spahn, Michael, b. 3. Jan. 1810, p. Johann and Anna Maria, m. 3. Mar. 1835 Betz, Gertrud, b. 14. Nov. 1812, d. 25. Feb. 1846 in Altenmittlau, p. Peter and Gertrud, em. 1860 with 4 children. Müller, Karl, b. 4. Jul. 1825, p. Johann Peter and Gertrud, m. 18. Feb. 1851 Trageser, Anna Maria, b. 20. Feb. 1830 in Altenmittlau, p. Heinrich V. and Magdalena, em. 1852 with 1 child. Huth, Johann Georg, b. 14. Sept. 1815 in Altenmittlau, p. Lorenz and Anna Maria, m. 11. Jan. 1853 (his 3rd marriage) Vorbeck, Maria Christina, b. 14. Jun. 1815, p. Konrad and Catharina, em. 1854 with 1 child. Emigrants from Altenmittlau to America, records of baptism (I think, the date is the date of emigration and most of people are children, for some of the p. appear in the other list too, but the information is not always clear!) Huth, Konrad, and Anna Maria, with daughters Gertrud and Anna Maria Trageser, Heinrich, p. Johann and Elisabeth, and Trageser, Margarethe, p. Johann and Elisabeth, and Johann Adam Heiles (there exists a family name Heilos!), Anna Maria, with Heinrich, and Anna Maria and Eva and Heinrich Bilz, Magdalena Margarethe, and Andreas, p. Andreas V. and Gertrud Hufnagel, Nikolaus, 18. Mar 1854 Huth, Johann Adam Antoni, Georg Adam, p. Johann and Margarethe, with p. Hufnagel, Wilhelm, p. Lorenz and Margarethe, Feb. 1853 Schneider, Elisabeth, p. Konrad and Margarethe Trageser, Magdalena, p. Heinrich V. and Magdalena, and Maria Anna Müller, Johann Adam, p. Johann Adam I and Anna Eva, 1853 Franz, Margarethe, p. Karl and Anna Maria Weber, Johann Georg, p. Adam and Franziska, with p. Kleinfelder, Eva, p. Johann Adam and Margarethe, with p. Streb, Maria Antonia, p. Matthäus and Maria Antonia, with p. 1851, and Georg Konrad and Katharina Huth, Peter, p. Christian and Maria Anna Franz, Margarethe, p. Christian and Maria Anna Schneider, Heinrich, illeg. of Anna Magdalena Henriette Schilling, Johannes, p. Johann and Catharina Huber, Konrad, p. Johann Georg and Anna Maria Kleinfelder, Konrad, p. Johann and Ursula, 1847 (the p. appear in the other list) Müller, Elisabeth, p. Peter and Gertrud Franz, Konrad, p. Johann and Elisabeth Franz, Peter, p. Andreas and Gertrud (p. appear in the other list) Lui, Friedrich, p. Andreas and Margarethe (p. appear in the other list) Franz, Johann Karl, p. Johann Karl and Anna Maria, with p. (possibly was Andreas Franz his brother) Trageser, Jakob, p. Konrad V. and Maria Anna, he died 19. Feb. 1920 as father of benedictians in the US. Trageser, Gertrud, p. Peter and Katharina, died as wife of Michael Winter in New Jersey Müller, Maria Eva, p. Michael V. and Elisabeth, 9. May 1881 to America Müller, Konrad, p. Michael V. and Elisabeth, 9. May 1881 to America Rossmann (Roßmann), Joseph, p. Jakob and Elisabeth, priesthood since 7. Jul. 1904, in St. Vincent Beatty, Vestmoreland Co, Pa I remember that I have read something about emigration from Gondsroth or Niedermittlau, and I’ll try to find that article, but it will take some weeks, because I have given back these annual books, and I don’t remember, which year it was. Greetings, Michael Antoni, Bruchköbel near Freigericht, Germany.