On 11 Mar 2000 Ed <epfen@juno.com> wrote > Swiss Greetings to Everyone,("gruezi"): > > I wrote earlier in the week , but I believe it was sent to > the wrong address. About two years ago we were able > to trace my wifes' Egolf ancesters back 10 generations > to Hans Egolf, who was born in Switzerland in1645. > He married Eva ( ? ), and died in Unterschefflenz, in > Germany,in 1712. A son, Hans Heinrich,born 1681, > had a son George Adam who immigrated to Phila. > from Germany in 1738. > We need your help to learn more about the Swiss > Hans Egolf. > > Thank you, > > Ed The Kraichgau is a section of Southwest Germany. The late Heinz Schuchmann, a Kraichgau genealogist, estimated that approximately 40% of the Kraichgau population was of Swiss descent because of Swiss emigration to the Kraichgau from the end of the Thirty Years War (1648) until the early decades of the 1700s. In the book "Schweizer Einwanderer in den Kraichgau" is the following entry: No. 921 EGOLF, Johann Jakob, von Nürensdorf ZH, Schuhmacher (Vater: Johann Jakob Egolf, Barbier, Chirurgus und Licenter sowie Gerichtsbürger in Unterschefflenz), oo Mosbach 27.7.1711 Rosina Dorothea Uckelin. I assume you are trying to discover where your Hans Egolf came from in Switzerland. The entry above suggests that Johann Jakob Egolf and his father, Johann Jakob Egolf, both emigrated from Nürensdorf, ZH. These two may be part of the family you are searching for. The fact that he lived in the same town you mentioned, Unterschefflenz, is interesting, and suggests you should check the records of Nürensdorf, Canton Zurich. "Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz" has no entry for Egolf at Nürensdorf, but everyone could have emigrated from that location or the name there could have "daughtered out". One cannot find Nürensdorf directly at the LDS URL http://www.familysearch.org/ Instead, I guessed which surrounding town had a church which served Nürensdorf. I guessed Bassersdorf. The Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Bassersdorf (Zürich) did serve Nürensdorf. There are three LDS microfilms of the church records numbered 996806, 2060936 and 2060967. The first contains Taufen, Heiraten and Tote for the period 1545 - 1794, the period you are interested in. I hope this information turns out to be helpful. Lyle G. Hartman Landenberg, Pennsylvania