At 12:31 PM -0600 16/2/04, Rose Green wrote: >Hi all, > >In the hopes that something new has turned up, I'll post again. I'm >looking for information on the special imperial cavalry contingent >from Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf sent to help the during the War of >Spanish Succession. They fought in today's southern Germany and >also in Alsace-Lorraine. My ancestor was the cavalry captain Georg >Andreas HARTWIG, born about 1666, died 1736 in Birkenau, Kreis >Heppenheim, Hessen. We believe he was not from S-H (he was a >lieutenant in Wolfenbüttel in 1701, but we don't have any further >information about origins). He had a number of children during his >time in the military (1703-1712), but I don't know where to find any >of their birth records. Ideas? > Hi Rose, There was a family of Hartwig on the island of Bornholm, Denmark from the 16th to 19th (at least) centuries. I have a record of a Claus Michelsen Hartwig, born about 1575 in Rønne, son of Michel Augustin Hartwig and "Unknown" Clausdatter Kames, marrying a distant cousin of my wife about 1622. You could look on the site http://www.kofoed.org for more on this family. The owner is Bjarne Kofoed (manager@kofoed.org). Regards, Mike King. -- _____________________________________________________________________ Michael King 255 McClellan Road, Ottawa ON K2H 8N7, Canada ( Phone (613) 828-3781 2 Fax (613) 728-1933 + Email miking@sympatico.ca The box said, Win2K or better required....so I bought a Mac