Linda, have you tried to find these people on Family Search? Or have you tried Rootsweb's Global Connect to see if anyone else is researching those names and has posted info on them? http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi. Or how about Mocavo? http://www.mocavo.com/. If you've tried those without success you could try again the old fashioned way by writing letters to the Hannover evangelical churches. You can Google that for a list of them. I did that with some of my ancestors in Hamburg and the Dresden area. Hamburg no longer lets the churches do that - all the church books are at the main archives and you either have to go there yourself or hire a researcher and Hamburg records have not been filmed by Family Search. I don't know what the situation is with Hannover but it could be worth a try. You do have to write in German. Some can read English so I use both languages in my letters. Also some churches have email addresses and I have also written emails and received responses. Another thing I did was write letters (in German and English) to all the people with the last name that I was researching that I could find in the German phonebook online in the city my ancestor came from and actually found my last remaining relative from that line. You might try writing to a Hannover mail list and ask if anyone know of a reliable researcher if you end up needing to go that way. Hope something here will help, Janet -----Original Message----- From: Linda Grinnell Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:47 PM To: PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] HILLE, BRUNE, DREIER, HORMAN, HUHNERKOCH, SCHMIDT,NEDDERMAN/FLEDDERMAN Hi everyone, I'm new to this group though definitely not new to genealogy. I began researching my families in 1974 and things sure have changed. We really had to do it the old fashioned way of writing letters and physically making visits to cemeteries, libraries, etc. I was grateful that I could look at census reports at my local library back then on the microfilm reader but doubly grateful that I can go right to ancestry and see any image I want to (with index except for this newest census). My Prussian/German lines are: Hille, Horman, Huhnerkoch, Brune, Dreier, Scheidemann, Fledderman/Nedderman, and Schmidt. I have finally found the passenger records for each of my immigrant ancestors but other than that, I have only had limited success in finding them in Germany. Here are my immigrant ancestors (Many from Prussia but maybe not all): Johannes Hille, born October 20, 1831 in Hannover. That's all I know about his place of origin and that's only because he stated this fact in censuses. I have no idea who his parents were or if anyone but him came to the US. He first lived in Cincinnati, then settled in Massac Co., IL where he died in 1899. He married: Maria Dorothee Sophie Brune, born September 17, 1840 in Hannover. I did find her baptism record which was in Evangelische, Rhaden, Westfalen, Prussia so I assume she was born fairly close by. She was the daughter of Christian Ludwig Brune and Wilhelmine Elisabeth Marie Dreier. She immigrated with her parents on October 29, 1856 (Baltimore) and they settled briefly in Cincinnati where she married her husband, Johannes Hille (above). She, her parents, her husband, and their children then settled in Massac Co., IL. Christian Ludwig Brune: His parents were Carl Ludwig Brune and Fledderman or Nedderman. Christian Horman, born July 6, 1834 in Prussia (as stated in various records). He arrived in New York September 1857 and moved to Cincinnati, then Dearborn Co., Indiana and finally Massac Co., IL. He married: Sophia Meyer Huhnerkoch, born June 20, 1847 in Indiana. She was the daughter of: Charles Diedrich "Carl" Huhnerkoch, born August 8, 1807 in Lohe, Uchte, Hannover (Saxony?). He was married to Maria Charlotte Scheidemann. She was born July 23, 1820 in Uchte, Hannover (I think). I believe her parents were William Scheidemann and Elenore Schmidt. All these families were Lutheran. My brick walls are in finding the parents of Johannes Hille, Christian Horman, and Charles Huhnerkoch and what areas they were from (especially the Hille family). I know there is a Hille, Germany but I haven't found any indication that my Hille family came from Hille, Germany. I am at the point where I am thinking of hiring a German researcher. Can anyone give me advice how to find a reliable and honest researcher who might be able to help me? Thanks in advance, Linda Rogers Grinnell ------------------------------- 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

Hello Jaet and Linda, because of Hannover church records and LDS films: LDS did not film any record of the Hannover churches. But they filemed copies of records of the 19th century that have been deposited in different States Archives. They did not copy these records  in all areas of Hannover. A problem might become that most of the names in Linda's list are quite common, especially Brune, Dreier, and Schmidt. So you should give more details. Hühnerkoch is rather rare and that family should be from the Uchte area. There were at least Carl Hühnerkoch and Marie Sophie Brand née Hühnerkoch who emigrated. And why can't you decide whether it is Neddermann or Fleddermann? Good luck! Brigitte ________________________________ From: Janet <9whitegardenia92@comcast.net> To: Linda Grinnell <fultimers@yahoo.com>; prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:44 AM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] HILLE, BRUNE, DREIER, HORMAN, HUHNERKOCH, SCHMIDT, NEDDERMAN/FLEDDERMAN Linda, have you tried to find these people on Family Search?  Or have you tried Rootsweb's Global Connect to see if anyone else is researching those names and has posted info on them? http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi.  Or how about Mocavo? http://www.mocavo.com/. If you've tried those without success you could try again the old fashioned way by writing letters to the Hannover evangelical churches.  You can Google that for a list of them.  I did that with some of my ancestors in Hamburg and the Dresden area.  Hamburg no longer lets the churches do that - all the church books are at the main archives and you either have to go there yourself or hire a researcher and Hamburg records have not been filmed by Family Search.  I don't know what the situation is with Hannover but it could be worth a try.  You do have to write in German.  Some can read English so I use both languages in my letters.  Also some churches have email addresses and I have also written emails and received responses. Another thing I did was write letters (in German and English) to all the people with the last name that I was researching that I could find in the German phonebook online in the city my ancestor came from and actually found my last remaining relative from that line. You might try writing to a Hannover mail list and ask if anyone know of a reliable researcher if you end up needing to go that way. Hope something here will help, Janet -----Original Message----- From: Linda Grinnell Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:47 PM To: PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] HILLE, BRUNE, DREIER, HORMAN, HUHNERKOCH, SCHMIDT,NEDDERMAN/FLEDDERMAN Hi everyone, I'm new to this group though definitely not new to genealogy. I began researching my families in 1974 and things sure have changed. We really had to do it the old fashioned way of writing letters and physically making visits to cemeteries, libraries, etc. I was grateful that I could look at census reports at my local library back then on the microfilm reader but doubly grateful that I can go right to ancestry and see any image I want to (with index except for this newest census). My Prussian/German lines are: Hille, Horman, Huhnerkoch, Brune, Dreier, Scheidemann, Fledderman/Nedderman, and Schmidt. I have finally found the passenger records for each of my immigrant ancestors but other than that, I have only had limited success in finding them in Germany. Here are my immigrant ancestors (Many from Prussia but maybe not all): Johannes Hille, born October 20, 1831 in Hannover. That's all I know about his place of origin and that's only because he stated this fact in censuses. I have no idea who his parents were or if anyone but him came to the US. He first lived in Cincinnati, then settled in Massac Co., IL where he died in 1899. He married: Maria Dorothee Sophie Brune, born September 17, 1840 in Hannover. I did find her baptism record which was in Evangelische, Rhaden, Westfalen, Prussia so I assume she was born fairly close by. She was the daughter of Christian Ludwig Brune and Wilhelmine Elisabeth Marie Dreier. She immigrated with her parents on October 29, 1856 (Baltimore) and they settled briefly in Cincinnati where she married her husband, Johannes Hille (above). She, her parents, her husband, and their children then settled in Massac Co., IL. Christian Ludwig Brune: His parents were Carl Ludwig Brune and Fledderman or Nedderman. Christian Horman, born July 6, 1834 in Prussia (as stated in various records). He arrived in New York September 1857 and moved to Cincinnati, then Dearborn Co., Indiana and finally Massac Co., IL. He married: Sophia Meyer Huhnerkoch, born June 20, 1847 in Indiana. She was the daughter of: Charles Diedrich "Carl" Huhnerkoch, born August 8, 1807 in Lohe, Uchte, Hannover (Saxony?). He was married to Maria Charlotte Scheidemann. She was born July 23, 1820 in Uchte, Hannover (I think). I believe her parents were William Scheidemann and Elenore Schmidt. All these families were Lutheran. My brick walls are in finding the parents of Johannes Hille, Christian Horman, and Charles Huhnerkoch and what areas they were from (especially the Hille family). I know there is a Hille, Germany but I haven't found any indication that my Hille family came from Hille, Germany. I am at the point where I am thinking of hiring a German researcher. Can anyone give me advice how to find a reliable and honest researcher who might be able to help me? Thanks in advance, Linda Rogers Grinnell ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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