Hello, St. Vith is today a part of Belguim in the german language region of east Belgium just some miles north of the northern Luxembourg border. It is a nice city. The people there speak Luxembourgian as their language, they speak german and french, too. It is a european city. They do have good connections to the Trier area, specially to Pruem and Bitburg. And not far away from Bitburg are the towns of Orenhofen, the farm calle Hof Faitz,... sincerely Werner in Germany > Subject: > Re: [TRIER-ROOTS-L] Help with Location of Towns > Date: > Fri, 06 Aug 1999 00:20:56 -0700 > From: > Joan Born <joanb5@earthlink.net> > To: > Vkhoff@aol.com > References: > 1 > > St Vith is in Belgium in the south near Luxemburg. I have ancestors in > Manderfeld which is north east of there. That area was part of RH > Prussia until 1920 when it became part of Belgium. I'm not sure if St > Vith was in Prussia, but I assume it was--in the Rheinland. > > Joan > > -- > > Joan Schneider Born > > Researching Surnames: > > Austria-Bohemia: BENESCH, HUNA, LENG, LIEBL, SCHNEIDER, YOUNG (YUNG) > Germany: BORN, HERRMAN > Buellingen & Manderfeld area of Belgium....which before 1920 was in > RH Prussia: BRAND, CHRISTEN, DROMMER, GROSJEAN, HAMMES, > HUPERTZ, KLINKERS, KNOTT, LAMBY, MURGES, ROSS, > TURBES > > ==== TRIER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Sister, > Can you spare $10 for Rootsweb? > Ask me why ... mailto:dsam@wasatch.com