The LDS has microfilmed most of the church records from the Pirmasens area - which is in the Rhine Pfalz. This microfilms can be ordered and viewed at you local Family History Center. Also, the Pirmasens Genealogical Study Group has transcribed many of the records in the area. They have a web site at: http://home.t-online.de/home/braun.b/geneengl.html The Rhine Pfalz has its own list: PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com Good luck. Janice Danks Pryse Duerfeldt wrote: > Kusel & Pirmasens, Rhenish Bavaria: Schneider, Schlick, Emrich, Abt. 1800 > > Ludwig Schneider m Josephine Schlick in Rhenish Bavaria near the > Pirmasens-Kusel area. > Their children included George Schneider, b. Dec 13, 1823, Pirmasens, who > emigrated to the US in 1849, one step ahead of getting killed in the > revolution, and established himself first in St. Louis (newspapers) and > finnally in Chicago in newspapers and banking. His brother Christian > Ludwig Schneider, b. probably before George, was a newspaper editor and > publisher in the Kusel area, married Dorothea Emrich, they had at least two > children together before both Christian and Dorothea died in about 1860-63 > in Germany. Their 2 orphaned children, twins Otto Clarence and Lina, b. > Dec 5, 1856, came to the US in 1870 to stay with family, probably though > their uncle George. We have good biographical information on George > Schneider. We have very good biographical and descendancy information on > Otto Clarence Schneider, but the only things we know about his twin sister, > Lina, was that she married Theodore Wassum/Wasem and lived in Evansville, > Indiana. > > We have no additional information on Ludwig Schneider and his wife > Josephine Schlick, or Christian Ludwig Schneider and his wife Dorothea Emrich. > > With this information can anyone help us track further information on > Christian and Dorothea and Ludwig and Josephine and their families or > ancestors in Rhenish Bavaria? > > Thank you for any help you provide. > > Pryse > > Pryse Duerfeldt, 5 Longyear Drive, Negaunee, MI 49866 > Phone & Fax: 906-225-0978; E-mail: pduerfel@nmu.edu > Great Grandson of : Gustav C. Duerfeldt & Louisa Parchen; > Thaddeus L. Matthews & Winifred Catherine (Kate) Pryse; > David B. Barnhart & Elizabeth Karn; and, > Henry Clay Ashwill & Minerva Jane Perry. > > ==== TRIER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Brother, > Can you spare $10 for Rootsweb? > Ask me why ... mailto:dsam@wasatch.com