This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --=_NextPart_Caramail_000468976139197_ID Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear friends, Following my last mail, several among you answered me that the text was incomprehensible. Because of its format, in MIME. Excuse me to have imposed this test to you. Below, here is the text, this time in format HTML I hope that it will be more readable. For all those which wrote to me, I wanted as of now cordially thanking you, of the bottom of the heart, I thank you for your assistance, your consultings or your encouragements. Patience... I am overflowed of work, but I would answer you individually all in the next days. So long, God keeps you Patrick Langolf Copy : Hello I am new on the list and I would need your assistance. (I beg your pardon, but I speak just a little bit English, just for survival=85) I seek the ancestors of Jakob LANGOLF who settled in Bergheim, in Alsace, into 1668. It was married in Anna WEBER and they had already a first sohn, Hans Jakob, when they settled in Bergheim In spite of years of search, I did not find the least trace of their origin. I supposed a long time that the LANGOLF are originating in Switzerland, in the canton of Bern, or of the LANGOLF / LANDOLF / LANGDOLF live since at least 1380. Alas, I never could show their helvetic origin... Lately, I had the occasion to find information on LANDOLF, which lived Altdorf, in Neckerkreis, in Bade Wurtemberg. One finds there as of 1595 on an old microfilm of the Mormons the name of Hans LANDOLF. In 1595, a Barbara LANDOLF maried with Hans BERNER (? from Bern, in Switzerland?). Then, during more than one hundred years, no any trace (on the microfilm) of the LANDOLF, which return abruptly in 1720 LANGDOLPH, in the same village. Is this normal, or the Mormons copied only what interested them? One finds also a LANDOLL Hans Michael, born the 26.08.1666 in Bergzabern, Pfalz, sohn of Georg Ernst LANDOLL and Anna Margarethe (...?) In 1691, one finds for the first time mention of my patronym LANGOLF in Doerrenbach, a small village on 2 kilometers of Bergzabern. At the time of the marriage of LANGOLF Theodorus and Rosina GEHL. Then, the LANGOLF made stock with Doerrenbach, then later, in Kandel, just at side. " to colonize " then all Germany (approximately 700 people today). Problem, the registers of Doerrenbach start only into 1690. Before this date, how to find if the LANGOLF did live already the commune? Here, you know now all. In short, I seek least additional information on this patronym LANGOLF, LANDOLL, LANDOLFF, LANGDOLPH. If you have a track, even tiniest, you are welcome. I would also like to come into contact with historians or genealogists of these areas which I have just quoted (Pfalz, Baden Wurttemberg)=85 Of course, all these steps will not inevitably allow me to find the ancestors of Jakob LANGOLF of Bergheim, perhaps but that will put to me on a track. With the advance, I wish to thank you for your assistance and your contest. I wish you with all the merry ones and happy Chrismas and Happy New Year... Patrick Langolf ______________________________________________________ Bo=EEte aux lettres - Caramail - http://www.caramail.com --=_NextPart_Caramail_000468976139197_ID--