Lew you keep safe over there. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "lew messinger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [PANORTHA] Attention descendants of the Michael Messinger (born 1719) Family of Northampton County > If yer pressed for time, go for it. Once Im back to Germany from Iraq, I > have a plan to visit Reutlingen once more, as well as Basel, and hopefully > can turn something definitive up. I, too, have not come up with anything > definitive about Basel. Reutlingen's history is loaded with Messingers. > There is an obituary I read one time, Samuel Shimer Messinger (d. 1900) or > his son, G Frank (d. 1932 I think), of 'Messinger Manufacturing" fame that > refers to their immigrant's hailing from Basel. It has to be in the > history > for one reason or another. If anything, the family could have got their > riverboat to Rotterdam from there. Im uncertain whether Michael Sr was > actually born there. Please keep me in the loop. Thanks. > > Lew Messinger > > (Ramadi, Iraq) > > >>From: [email protected] >>To: Northampton List <[email protected]>, Lehigh List >><[email protected]>, Robert Jones - Messinger Contact >><[email protected]>, lew messinger <[email protected]>, Messinger List >><[email protected]>, [email protected], " Carl H. Bloss" >><[email protected]> >>Subject: Attention descendants of the Michael Messinger (born 1719) Family >>of Northampton County Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:01:48 -0600 (CST) >> >>Attention Descendants of Michael Messinger, who was born in 1719, and his >>family that arrived in Philadelphia in 1732, and died in Forks Township, >>Northampton County, PA in 1791 >> >>I am wondering if anyone has definitive records to show where the >>Messinger >>family emigrated from. I have often heard Basel, Switzerland tossed >>around >>as a possibility, but so far I haven?t been able to find anyone with >>records from Basel to support that. A little while ago I came across an >>interesting website. The people on the website had joined together to >>commission a researcher in Germany to find the origins of their family. I >>was wondering if there would be any interest in doing the same for our >>Michael Messinger. Although such research is very expensive (the one I >>saw >>was over $700), if we can get a lot of people to contribute we can >>drastically lower the price of the research. For example, if it would >>cost >>$700 and 7 people contributed, that would only be $100 each. If we got 14 >>people, it would only $50 each, and so on. Some researchers also have a >>policy that they only collect payment if the search is successful, thus >>meaning that there is no risk for the people commissioning the research. >>This email is only meant to test the waters. If we pool our resources we >>stand a far greater chance of being able to find the exact place our >>family >>came from than if we all go it alone. Please let me know if you have any >>interest in undertaking such a project. If you do, and have any >>suggestions as to possible researchers or organizations to hire that would >>be much appreciated as well. Hope to hear from you all soon! >> >>~Michael Messinger~ >> >>My Messinger line: Michael (b.1719), Jacob (1748), Isaac (1789), Elias >>(1822), William E. (1859), Claude C. (1883), John (1922, my grandfather) >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Share your latest news with your friends with the Windows Live Spaces > friends module. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mk > > > > PAGenWeb Northampton > http://pa-roots.com/~northampton/ > > PAGenWeb ~ Bucks County > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks > > Bucks County History and Genealogy > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~buckscounty > > Pennsylvania GenWeb > http://www.pagenweb.org > ------------------------------- > 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