MR RICHARD H MATHEWS wrote: > Hi Bob -- > Saturday I mailed out to you the chart on my line of Zieglers from > Wuerrtemberg. I still don't know exactly where Weiden is, but one of > my documents indicates that it is a small town near a larger town > named Sulz. Perhaps that will help. (I haven't even found Sulz > because I don't own a good map of Germany). > > I'm not sure that my line links up with yours, but I hope you find > the material I'm mailing to be of some interest. > > Sincerely, Richard Mathews ***************************************************** Hi Richard, I received your family chart for Geor Jacob Ziegler (1848 Weiden, Germany - 1932 Hillsboro, OR). Dolly did a good job and a lot of work. I do not see where we could make a connection between your and our Zieglers. With ours the whole family came over here in 1753 from Grandpa on down to a 6 months old baby. We have no idea if any relations remained. I am interested in learning all I can about Wurttemberg, its people, its history, etc., etc. We have located a detailed map that shows Sohnstetten in Wurttemberg. First, let's correct its location to: 61 KM east south east of Stuttgart or 12 KM west of Heidenheim on road way 466. I will airmail a 8 1/2 x 11 copy of that area of the map. When it gets there look 12 KM south of Sohnstetten and you will find a smaller village named Weidenstetten. I wonder, could this be your Weiden that we can't find on any map. I notice the name of 15 or 20 villages in the area end in stetten: Scharenstetten, Westerstetten, Breimerstetten, Neenstetten, Mergeistetten and Stetten ob Lontel (on the Lone River). Stetten is not in my German - English dictionary. I will send a copy of this to Thomas Kemmer who may help us on this. He has a Swabian into English web site. A surprise for me was another village 5 KM or so south on Weidenstetten named Breitingen. It appears to contain the surname Breitling. Oliver Breitling from east of Cologne, Germany has just sent the list a query on this name What a coincidence? I may be reading the map wrong. It is not to clear. Best regards, Oburg Bob H. _____