Hello, I am tracing my GENIUS family who I am told came from Haardt, near Neustadt, on the Wine Road. JAMES GENIUS (b. 1834) was the son of FRANCIS EDWARD GENIUS and MARGARET SCHUMAN. There were 2 other children: HENRY GENIUS (b. 1839) and CHARLOTTE GENIUS. The family was Protestant. And Francis Edward Genius was supposedly the Burgermeister of his village in the early 1800s. Has anyone ever heard of the surname GENIUS? I have been told that there was no GENIUS family in Haardt. I am wondering if the name GENIUS was originally something else when the family was in Germany. Any suggestions or advice appreciated. Pam Sulzer Louisiana

I am researching the Charles Koob & Elizabeth Ehrlinger Koob family and am woundering if anyone else on the list is researching them as well. They came from Louxembourg in 1863 and settled in Iowa. Thank you. Glenda Britain

The family Bible says Peter Bach, born 1832 and Barbara Wagner, born 1837 in Oberlinxweiler, Kreise St. Wendall the District of Trier. I haven't seen any messages with the city or kreise as the subject. I can't tell by any of my maps, was this area located in the Pfalz or Saarland at this time? I appreciate any help I get on my families. Thanks. Sandi

Anyone with interests in Eppelborn/Calmesweiler (in Trier Catholic archdioces) in the mid-early 1700? Looking for Ducarm/DeCarmes records. Eppelborn diocese church records from the 1730s show Christoph Ducarm and wife Susannah Koenig and their children but give no indication of where Christoph was born circa 1700. Mary Ann Unger

A sincere thank you to all the kind folks who took time to answer my post about any Hentges names in the Gonner book, and also send so many suggestions, leads and urls to check out. I'm getting back to you personally, but not as quickly as all of you got to me!! Thank you all so much! Patt Gaetani

Here is a bit more information for folks not familiar with Gonner and the 1987 re-edition by Jean Ensch, Jean-Claude Muller, and RObert Owen. Volume I of the 1987 re-edition translates the 1889 Gonner book, <Luxembourgers in the New World> from German into English. Volume II contains an index to the <Luxemburg Gazette> newspaper, published in Dubuque, Iowa, by Nicholas Gonner. A number of libraries (e.g., State Historical Society of Iowa, St. Thomas University Library's Luxembourgiana Collection, Loras Collage Library in Dubuque) now have the <Luxemburger Gazette> (LG) on microfilm; if you are searching for particular surnames and have found any listings in Ensch's Volume 2 index, you can check specific microfilms for appearances of these names in issues of the LG, which is in 19th century German script. As Ellen has noteod (below), you might be able to borrow the 1987 re-edition of Gonner through interlibrary loan. You may be able to order the two-volume set by checking Fausto Gardini'a web site, "Luxembourg on My Mind." I believe he has information there. Luxembourg on My Mind: http://members.aol.com/VailCorp/lux.html Another excellent web site is Lisa Oberg's Genelux: Genelux: http://www.eskimo.com/~lisanne/index.html ----------------------------------- On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:40:16 -0800 Ellen & John White <ewhite@siouxvalley.net> wrote: > Hi Patt and Joey and all > > My husband also had relatives who have the towns St. Cloud, MN and > North Washington, Iowa in there history after arrival in America from > the Bitburg area. KOLBERT/KOLBET was the surname. > > I would believe you could obtain the book, Luxembourgers in the New > World, through interlibrary loan, (course I know I couldn't from my > VERY small public library), when we lived in Iowa, our local library > had one volume, I never knew there was more than one volume. > Ellen White ewhite@siouxvalley.net ---------------------- Suzanne Bunkers

Dear Patt, Volume I of the Ensch (1987) re-edition of Gonner (1889) lists a Peter Hentges of North Washington, IA (p. 239) and a Franz Hentges of St. Cloud, MN (0. 239). Volume II of the Ensch re-edition based on Gonner lists numerous Hentges families (see pages 169-170). This index lists appearances of the Hentges surname in the <Luxemburger Gazette> (LG), a newspaper published in Dubuque IA. Dates are listed day/month/year. For example: Nicholas: 7 names and approximately 20 references to times that name appears in the LG. Mathias: one name with these LG dates: 7/12/1856 p.5 9/3/1909 p. 5 Peter: one name with these LG dates: 20/5/1890 p.5 11/11/1890 p.5 24/0/1894 p.4 9/6/1908 p.5 10/10/1911 p.7 9/11/1916 p.5 Currently, there are Hentges families in Alton (Sioux County) and Le Mars (Plymouth County), Iowa. It might be worth your time to check the web for phone numbers/addresses. A high school classmate of mine, Charlie Hentges, originally from Alton, might know more: hentgesc@aol.com You might also want to make queries in guest books at these web sites: Luxembourg on My Mind: http://members.aol.com/VailCorp/lux.html by Fausto Gardini Genelux: http://www.eskimo.com/~lisanne/index.html by Lisa Oberg Best of luck in your search, Suzanne Bunkers

I am interested in finding out any information about Dockendorfs. My great- great grandmother was an Anne Marie Dockendorf and lived in the area of LaMont Illinois. Her parents, I believe came from the little village of Dockendorf, near Trier in the early 1800's. I have travelled to the little village of Dockendorf, but could find no one left there by that name. I would welcome any information that anyone may have on the Dockendorf family. Thanks --- Darlene

Hi Patt and Joey and all My husband also had relatives who have the towns St. Cloud, MN and North Washington, Iowa in there history after arrival in America from the Bitburg area. KOLBERT/KOLBET was the surname. I would believe you could obtain the book, Luxembourgers in the New World, through interlibrary loan, (course I know I couldn't from my VERY small public library), when we lived in Iowa, our local library had one volume, I never knew there was more than one volume. Ellen White ewhite@siouxvalley.net

On CD354 says Source Name: Krueger, Lillian Source Annotation: Date and port of arrival. Extracted from an article which appeared in the Drittes Jahrbuch(1934) of the Verein fuer Heimatkunde im Kreise Merzig. Does anyone have this book? If so would you please lookup Johann RIEHM 1864.It also has Page #:184 Thank you Florence MN, USA

Patt, Luxembourgers in the New World (LNW) is a two volume set with history and some indices. The 1892 Consulate Petition includes the signatures of Franz Hentges of St. Cloud, Minnesota and Peter Hentges of North Washington, Iowa. The list of Luxembourger-American Catholic priests includes Pastor Karl Hengen (1838-1875). The list of selected names of Luxembourger Emigrants includes Nicolas Hengen, age 26, of Belgium, who sailed on the John Hancock from Le Havre on June 20, 1855; Theodore Henges, age 55, traveling with a family of 4 from Luxembourg to Delphos, sailed on the Mississippi from Antwerp on April 23, 1857; Georges and Jean-G. Hentges, ages 63 and 22, Luxembourg farmers, sailded on the Charter Oak from Le Havre on June 16, 1857. The Luxembuger Gazette (LG) was a Luxembourger-American paper printed in the German language out of Dubuque, Iowa from 1871-1918. Volume 2 of LNW is basically a huge, 500-page list of citations of every name appearing in its pages. Hengen, Henges, Hentgen, and Hentges have close to 200 citations, which means that the surname has appeared almost 200 times in the pages of the LG. The list does include Mathias, Nicholas, and Peter Hentges. None of the indices provide data concerning who was traveling with who. To obtain copies of the actual articles in the LG containing these surnames, you will need to have someone with access to the articles copy them off the microfilm rolls. I would offer to do this, but I have a backlog of LG lookup requests and have been fighting the flu for a month. Try to find someone to do this and, if you can't, then feel free to ask me and expect to wait. I've come across references to this family, as Peter Hentges lived in North Washington, Chickasaw County, Iowa and my Schumacher family also lived there for a time. No doubt they knew each other as it was, and still is, a tiny town and there were only 10 Luxembourger families there among the hundreds of German families. I have a copy of the History of the Immaculate Conception Parish, North Washington, Iowa (HICP), in which page 17 mentions a trading place being set up in North Washington by Peter and Nick Hentges. I can send you a photocopy of the pages in the LNW and HICP that I have mentioned, at no charge. I will just need your mailing address (suggest you e- mail that directly to me at JoeyLibby@aol.comand not post it on the list!). Joey Schumacher =================================================== In a message dated 3/4/99 3:31:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, PGaet11501@aol.com writes: << Subj: [TRIER-ROOTS-L] GONNER BK: LUXEMBOURGERS IN THE NEW WORLD Date: 3/4/99 3:31:07 PM Eastern Standard Time From: PGaet11501@aol.com To: TRIER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Hello List, Does anyone have access to the book <<Luxembourgers in the New World>> by Nicholas Gonner? I would appreciate it if someone with access could look up some names for me. Any Hentges people, especially: Nicholas, Mathias, Peter and anyone traveling with them. The family emigrated in 1847 fr Niederweis, Kr. Bitburg, Trier. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me! Patt Gaetani Mineola, NY >>

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Hello List, Does anyone have access to the book <<Luxembourgers in the New World>> by Nicholas Gonner? I would appreciate it if someone with access could look up some names for me. Any Hentges people, especially: Nicholas, Mathias, Peter and anyone traveling with them. The family emigrated in 1847 fr Niederweis, Kr. Bitburg, Trier. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me! Patt Gaetani Mineola, NY

Hi, everyone, We are planning to visit Germany this year and I am still trying to get some information on my g-grandfather, Jacob BERESHEIM. He filed a Declaration of Intention on 18 May 1853 in the Court of Common Pleas in New York City. On that document he stated he was a subject of the King of Wurtemberg. When a certified copy was sent to the NY Superior Court for his naturalization on 4 Sept 1856, the Declaration said King of Bavaria. The 1860 census said he was from Bavaria. The family believes that he came from Blieskastel which is in the Saar. 1. Was any part of Wurtemberg west of the Rhine in the early 1850s? 2. Is there an index to emigration that covers this time period and area? Would someone look up the name, please? I have search all the immigration indexes here. 3. Did an immigrant have to fill out any other papers when he filed the Declaration or was naturalized? The LDS films did not have any other information on his age, where he was from or when he immigrated. I will be very grateful for any help. Betty Eichhorn in Florida.

Steve, thanks for your letter. I notice the alternate spelling of Heiing for Heyink. My Eiting was sometimes spelled Eitink (is the "k" ending a Dutch variation perhaps?) Do you know if St. Georg Church is amenable to doing lookups, and if so the procedure, payment, etc, or would I be better struggling with the LDS records. Do you know what language the early 1800's St. Georg records were written in. My Eiting emigrants seemed ambivalent about whether they were Dutch or German. sfrank@friendlynet.com wrote: > Andy > > My ancestors are from St. Georg in Bocholt. It is the 'larger" Bocholt > just inside Westfalen. My family surnames from St. Georg are FRANK > (FRANKEN), HEYINK (HEIING), and SCHMEING. Johann Frank, Catharina > Frank, Bernard Heyink, and Hermannus Schmeing would have emigrated from > Bocholt in approximately 1848. > > I plan on visiting Bocholt later this year. I would be interested in > hearing from all researchers with ties to Bocholt and St. Georg. It is > my understanding that there are several churches in this area, however, > St. Georg is the only one that was around in the early 1800's. > > Have more information about St. Georg that I would be willing to share. > Steve Frank, SFrank@friendlynet.com

Hello Fellow Researchers! I need any help I can get about where my grandfather & family left Germany from. My grandfather, HEINRICH GROENEWALD, left from Germany in 1881 and left Antwerp, Belgium on September 28th, 1881. He had his family with him: wife ANNA (maiden name not known), daughter ANNA MATILDA GROENEWALD (GRUNEWALD, a lot of different spellings), and another daughter by the name of MARGARET(not sure of the spelling). My big problem is that I don't know where or when he left Germany.. He was born in TILL-MOYLAND (Kreis KLEVE) but I think he might have left from somewhere else...He was listed as a miner in the ships passenger list...He may have departed from around OBERHAUSEN as I have heard my mother speak of Oberhausen when I was a child (1932 era). If you can help me I sure will be grateful... Jim Bollinger jimb@evcom.net

Hello Andy, I am living near Nettetal and never heared of Bocholt before! But Don is true, there is a part of Nettetal which is called Bocholt(Oberbocholt and Niederbocholt). But sorry, both Bocholt's don't have a St. Georg church.The smaller one seems to be too little, to have an own church, but there is no Georg church in Nettetal either. It may help you that nowadays no Eiting's are found in Nettetal but there are some in Bocholt. Regards Margret

Dear Don Ebbeler and the lists and all: Don, thanks for your reply. I had assumed my Eiting's came from the larger Bocholt just inside Westfalen, but based on your info, it is time for me to rethink this! IF they emigrated from the larger Bocholt in the 1840 to 1850 timeframe, would they likely have shown up in Westfälishe Auswanderer, or were many actual emigrants not listed there? I could not find the smaller Bocholt on "my" road map of modern Germany, but I did find nearby Nettetal, and it is near to Straelen and Kempen, from which the families that my Eitings married came ... so the plot thickens. Does anyone know if this smaller Bocholt (near Nettetal), has a St. George Catholic Church? Does the larger Bocholt have one? "Our" St. Georg Catholic Church had a Father Schmitt as pastor in 1974, if that's of any help to anyone in distinguishing. Which direction and distance is the smaller Bocholt from Nettetal? Thanks for any help, :) Andy Wegner, Winneconne, Wisconsin, USA ebbeler@ix.netcom.com wrote (in reply to a message originally posted on westfalen-l list): Hello Andy, There are 2 Bocholts, both in the modern state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. For your time period the large one was in Westfalen and the book Westfälishe Auswanderer is a list covering that Bocholt up to 1850, but there are no Eiting emigrants listed. The much smaller Bocholt [a Bauerngut near Nettetal, 335 residents today] was part of Rheinprovinz for your time period and would not be covered by the Westfalen emigration books. There is also a Bochold which is part of Essen today, also not covered by these books. Don Ebbeler

Hi all, Looking for data on ancestry of Mathias Kiefer b. circa 1748 in Freudenburg - emigrated to the Banat in 1766. Also looking for birthplace of Christoph Ducarm b. circa 1700, married by 1735 to Susanna Koenig, both died in Eppelborn (1788 & 1765, respectively). In Calmesweiler (next to Eppelborn) the name was DeCarmes. Today, the name would probably be Deckarm. Thanks, Mary Ann Unger