VReeder@aol.com wrote: > > Dear Gary et all interested in the Goshen, Clermont Co., O. Straup/b Family > connections: > In answer to your questions written 6-27-99, Garry: > Thank you for the information about the fact that it was the custom to give > the children two names and the person would be called by the second name > rather than as we do today. (ie --Johan Jacob Straub would have been called > Jacob. That is very interesting. There is a group of links on the STRAUB home page http://grove.ufl.edu/~dianagal/Straub/StraubHome.htm called "Useful Links for 'Pennsylvania Deutsch' Researchers" that you might want to peruse. One of the links is to an article on "19th-Century PA German Naming Customs": http://www.kerchner.com/germname.htm As for the children and their birthdates, there are several avenues to pursue. One is finding their tombstones. Another might be seeing if Jacob made an application for a pension for his Revolutionary War service. Another would be finding his will, although this would name only his surviving children. Unfortunately, there's almost nothing online at the Clermont County OHGenWeb site. As visiting the county court yourself is probably not an easy option, you might want to consider joining the Clermont County Genealogical Society and the Goshen Township Historical Society, and possibly the Ohio Genealogical Society, to gain access to their resources and assistance. > Concerning the Fryburgers: I have mentioned this before to this group and > don't think I've had any answers to this one, but some time ago someone from > Northumberland Co. sent me a newspaper article that states the fact that > Ludwig Fryburger, Framey's father, was Jewish. Did you have any info. about > this? Very interesting I think. Usually when you don't get an answer to a question, it's because no one knows (or possibly cares) what the answer is. I'm not sure I see why the answer would be so "very" interesting.