>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:45:43 -0400 >To: BZanon@aol.com >From: "Robert E. Hausman" <hausman@bio.bu.edu> >Subject: Re: [PFALZ] Pfalz or Hessen > >>Beverly, you asked: > >>I just 2 days ago discovered my maternal great grandfather [KASPAR >>BITTINGER] >>and grandfather [PHILLIP BITTINGER] were born in Eimsheim and my great >>grandmother [KATHARINA SPIESS] was born in Dolgesheim. Searching LDS film >>was to no avail as I previously thought they were born in Guntersblum. >>Anyway, I noted while looking up film for Eimsheim and Dolgesheim that they >>were in Hessen not Pfalz, but other sources place them in Pfalz. Which is >>correct? > > >These villages are quite near to each other west of the Rhine in the area >known >as Rheinhessen, then part of Hesse-Darmstadt. They haven't moved but >the boundaries have. Its always best to look up >the places you are interested in on a good Michelin map or check them out >on Mapquest. > >Rob Hausman ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Robert E. Hausman hausman@bu.edu www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/a/u/Robert-E-Hausman/index.html HAUSMANN, ROUSSELET, HEERE, LAUBER, LATUS