This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bowers Pitsenberger Duessinger Schindeldecker Ensminger Welty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4245 Message Board Post: I am trying to find the birth records of these three individuals who all appear in the records in Shenandoah Co. VA. Descendents of Christian Bowers and Abraham Pitsenberger appear in the records of Greene Co. TN along with my ancestor John Welty. The name next to Caspar Walty on the ship St. Andrew in 1750 is Ulrich Bisserker which may be Bitsberger an early form of Pitsenberger. Waelty and Buetsberger names appear in the church records in Rieschweiler Germany in 1711 and 1725. An Ulrich Pitsberger family appears in church records in York Co. PA in 1751. I have been doing area searches of church records in northern Alsace and southwest Germany hoping to find baptism records of these three individuals. Several Walty/Welty families and Bauer families appear in records in northern Alsace (west of where the Neas family came from) in the early 1700s in the Wintersbourg and Waldhambach area near Dehlingen where Hans Bitzberger appears. The Johannes Duessinger/Deisinger family of Shenandoah Co. VA is from Waldhambach. The Peter Schindeldecker family also appears in the records at Ingweiler north of Saverne in northern Alsace. Christian Bowers married a Schindeldecker from Hinterwiedenthal Germany. In 1754 on the ship Neptune appears the name Christian Baur. Also on board was Nicolaus Ensminger from Drulingen near Waldhambach. Could this be the Christian Bowers of Shenadoah Co. VA? A Christian Walty was a bapt. sponsor for a Nicolaus Ensminger in 1725 in this area. Also Abraham Pitsenberger had land transactions with a Henry Bauer in Shenandoah Co. VA and a Maria Barbara Bauer was a bapt. spnsors for a child of Ulrich and Anna Buetzeburger in York Co. PA in 1756. Does anyone have any other info on connections between these families?