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Comment by Catherine Davis on Wednesday

Nellie, what time period are we talking about?  Do you know any other names than just Andres?  Also, is there any possibility that the name was originally spelled Eisenmenger and changed?  I looked on ancestry.com and the only Andres/Andrew Eisimingers (Eisimongers) seemed to be born in the US.  I also checked familysearch.org and searching for Eisiminger brought up only Eisenmengers, and they seemed to be from several different places in Germany.  Have you checked a US death record or citizenship record for Andres?  They sometimes will give a town name as well as just the country.

Comment by Nellie Reed on Wednesday

looking to see if  any one can tell me about my Eisiminger (Eisimonger)Andres Eisimonger would be the one that came from Germany and his parents

 

Comment by Nellie Reed on Wednesday

hello  My name is Nellie Reed  (Daniel) my maiden last name,  but the german surnames  I have been looking for  are Eisiminger(Eisimonger)  and Drucker 

I am not to sure of  the towns  my family came from  all I can tell us is the my Andres Eisimonger(Eisiminger) was from there,  the surname Drucker was a off branch of the Mooney/Eisiminger family.

 

Comment by Catherine Davis on January 29, 2012 at 11:18am

Audrey, if your aunts and uncles corresponded with people in Germany, don't you know the town so you can get films at a Family History Center?

Comment by Audrey Leonard on January 29, 2012 at 10:20am

Hi Catherine, yes, I have the family Cords in the US, it was my mother's maiden name. My grandfather, William Cords, came here in1898, also two uncles were emigrants to the US.  It's entirely possible that as I (hopefully) get further back in the family, the spelling will change, but I have found Cords in German history going back to the 1500s.  Several of my aunts and uncles corresponded with Grandpa's siblings in Germany but no-one ever thought to ask about the family. I found his parents named on his social security application. We had neighbors named Cordes and I remember asking him if they were relatives. That's when he told me Cordes' are not Cords!  I'll keep searching through records - it took me about 10 years to finally find something on the Oberdorfs (another  branch of my family tree), so I have hopes of finding the Cords!  Audrey

Comment by Christine M. Worthington on January 29, 2012 at 7:28am

I have a difficult topic to discuss.  I'm sure most of you know about the family trees the Nazi party did.   I have one from my step-grandmother.   I know these trees were used for terrible reasons.  However, are they accurate?

Comment by Catherine Davis on January 13, 2012 at 5:45pm

Go to your nearest Family History Center and rent the films for the churches in Niewied.  You do not have to be a Mormon to use their libraries. They welcome all researchers.  See the catalog of FHC films at https://www.familysearch.org/search/search/library_catalog#searchTy...

Comment by Marianne Szabo on January 13, 2012 at 4:05pm

Found one Scharfenstein in FamilySearch.org

https://www.familysearch.org/search/records/index#count=20&quer...

Comment by C Sharp on January 13, 2012 at 3:59pm

Sharp/Scharfenstein of the Long Valley) German Valley) NJ.

Hi all, The Scharfensteins immigrated to NJ around 1720-1730 from Neuwied German.  I've got the USA line completely but am looking for pointers on locating early German Records.  I know that these records are extremely hard to find but any help would be appreciated.  Thx  Christina

Comment by Catherine Davis on January 7, 2012 at 12:29pm

Audrey--have you found this family in the US so you have a starting place to look for records?  Also, I wouldn't rule out Cordes as a possible spelling.  Or Corts or Cordts, either.  Not only is it possible that a name or date can be carved incorrectly on a tombstone, it is only recently that spelling of names has become constant.  Our ancestors often used various spellings, and in fact, as you go further back in time, they may not even have had a clue how to spell their name because they couldn't read or write.  So, often, the spelling in records was at the whim of the clerk who wrote the record.  In German records, I've often found that d, t, and dt are used fairly interchangeably. 

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