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 >>