Kenneth, Did any of your Hempel's settle in Milwaukee? I have an Eric Hemphel who I have been trying to locate his parents. They were from Germany. But I can not make out the name of the town in the 1920 census. They are in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1920. ERIC AND BERTHA HEMPEL Maybe you could take a look and see if you can figure out the name of where his father and mother were born. Thank you Judy From: K E <kenofnocal@yahoo.com> Reply-To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com To: prussia-roots-l@rootsweb.com Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] the Thieles of Stollberg, Sangerhausen District,Province of Saxony, Prussia Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Greetings, I've recently been able to determine the names of my 4th great-grandfather in my direct paternal line as well as the name of his wife, and I'm wondering if someone might be researching her family (the Thieles of Stollberg), or otherwise have an insight into them. My 3rd great-grandfather Carl Joseph Ernst Hempel was born 13 September 1822 in Stollberg (Harz) to Ernst Christoph Siegmund Hempel and Johanne Henriette Friederike Thiele. I don't yet have either of their dates of birth but my guess is that both were probably born between 1790 and 1804. I mentioned in a previous post about the Hempels that my family believed them to have been Jewish. The raft of vital records I just received from Osterode concering this family (Carl Hempel relocated to Osterode am Harz from Stolberg in the 1840s) indicates strong evidence they were practicing Lutherans and no evidence they were Jews; all the parish records relating to this family in Osterode were from Lutheran churches. On the other hand, my 2nd great-grandfather Carl August Willhelm Hempel (born 1850 in Osterode) attended an overwhelming Jewish school in nearby Seesen (the Institut Jacobson, which was founded by a Jewish philanthropist in 1802). Apparently the school also admitted a few Christians, but I'm still inclined to think this family may have been Jewish but converted in the 18th or early 19th century (perhaps in Stollberg). I'm also inclined to think however that the Thiele family I'm now searching for in Stollberg is probably more likely to have been Lutheran but I'm disinclined to make assumptions; I honestly have no idea. Thanks for any help you might be able to provide. Best regards, Kenneth __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage rates near historic lows. Refinance $200,000 loan for as low as $771/month* https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h27f8&disc=y&vers=689&s=4056&p=5117

Judy, I couldn't make out the town in that census record. Two suggestions: check the death and cemetery records for Eric (and Bertha if they married in Germany). Town of origin is sometimes listed in them. Or else save the copy of that record to disk, solicit someone's help (maybe through a mailing list) who is familiar with German geography and deciphering these things and send it to them privately. There are Hempels all over Germany. Mine came from the Kingdom of Hanover (and before that Prussia) and all went to Massachusetts. Kenneth --- Judith Schweitzer <junan37@hotmail.com> wrote: > Kenneth, > Did any of your Hempel's settle in Milwaukee? I have > an Eric Hemphel who I > have been trying to locate his parents. They were > from Germany. But I can > not make out the name of the town in the 1920 > census. They are in the > Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1920. > > ERIC AND BERTHA HEMPEL > > Maybe you could take a look and see if you can > figure out the name of where > his father and mother were born. > Thank you > Judy > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com