I also have three generations of Dietrichs/Dieterichs. School teaching seems to have run in the family. Rob Hausman At 05:26 PM 7/24/00 -0400, you wrote: >I have Diederich/Dietrich from Schwedelbach, which is near Kaiserslautern. >There were several generations of school teachers (1700's)...Glan Munchweiler, >Kottweiler and Schwedelbach. Don't know if there could be a connection to >your >Dederichs. >Marian Huber Dietrich > >Dave & Judy Stickney wrote: > > > After 80+ years of knowing that John Stickney had changed his name _to_ > > Stickney from some similar German name, we finally found his father and the > > family in the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, census of 1860. Sibert STICKEN and > > his wife Anna Maria MüLLER emigrated with their 4 small children from their > > home in Lindweiler to the US in 1847, arriving in New York in August. > > (Still haven't found the ship.) Thanks to the LDS website, I was able to > > locate Sibert and Anna Maria's marriage record in the Tondorf civil > > registers. Viewing the films gave us both sets of their parents and names > > of Sibert's uncle and grandparents. > > > > Sibert, born 1814, was the son of Herman (Germaine) Joseph STICKEN (born > > about 1785), son of Johann Joseph Sticken and Anna Gertrude > DEDERICHS. They > > also had at least 1 other child that lived to adulthood - Sibert. > > Anna Maria MüLLER, born abt.1820, was the daughter of Johann Jacob MüLLER > > and Elisabeth GERHARDS. They were married 27 April 1842 in Tondorf, > and had > > the following children born to them in Germany: Anna Helena, Anna Barbara, > > Jacob, and Johann Jacob. One more daughter, Catherine, was born to them in > > Wisconsin. > > > > We are happily looking for any and all connections to the STICKEN - > MüLLER - > > DEDERICHS - and GERHARDS families in this area, and those connected to > > them. It looks like this is considered the Eifel area. Is this the > correct > > list to post to. > > > > Keeping my fingers crossed!!!XXX > > > > Judy Stickney from Northern Minnesota > > > > ==== PFALZ Mailing List ==== > > Going on vacation longer than 4 days? > > send your message to Pfalz-L-request@rootsweb.com (click and ready to go) > > mailto:Pfalz-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > >==== PFALZ Mailing List ==== >Going on vacation longer than 4 days? >send your message to Pfalz-L-request@rootsweb.com (click and ready to go) >mailto:Pfalz-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Robert E. Hausman hausman@bu.edu www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/a/u/Robert-E-Hausman/index.html