Germany and German Ancestry

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Comment by Susan Teresa Holmes on March 29, 2010 at 11:59am

I am trying to find record of my Great Grandmother. Her name according to County of Alameda, Certificate of Death, information given by her daughter, Mary Holmes/Smith, city of Oakland.
Wilhelmina Nesensohn/Holmes
Husband: Samuel Oliver Holmes
Father: Mathew Nesensohn
she was born: May 21 1855 in Germany,
died: July 30 1940. I find her in the 1900,1910 us census, as well as,California Death Index.
I have personaly verified and viewed her family Headstone and from the Cemetery itself.
In the 1900 US Federal Census, living in Oakland Ca. Ward 2 with husband and 6 children. It also shows year of immigration to US. as 1873.
With this info I am still unable to find anything else, like who was her mother? My Father said she was from Karlsruhe, my Aunt says Baden.
Anybody have any suggestions?

Comment by Paula Curran on March 29, 2010 at 9:16am

I received a very nice e-mail from a gentleman in Germany who lives in Essenheim and has done much research on families from that town. I have an ancestor named Braunewell from that town. He said that there is still a Braunewell family in Essenheim who owns a winery, where a family reunion was held. Quite a few of the Braunewell family made their way to America. It would be interesting to make contact here in the US. Any Braunewells out there?

Comment by Johnny Darrell Piatt on March 27, 2010 at 2:11pm

Hi Catherine, I had already researched ancestry.com and found the father of the Joseph I was searching for and his father Joshua. I am trying now to find where they came from in Germany originally. I spent six years in Germany and know the country fairly well. It would be nice to know. It is the same for George Heisler, where in Germany?

Comment by Catherine Davis on March 26, 2010 at 1:46pm

Johnny, I'm not researching either of the surnames you mentioned, but I did a quick check of ancestry.com for a Joseph Holstein and George Heisler and found many people with these names. Do you have any other information on the people in whom you are interested that might help narrow the field?

Comment by Johnny Darrell Piatt on March 26, 2010 at 1:00pm

I have two surnames that I would like more info on, Holstein and Heisler, Specifically, Joshua or Joseph Holstein and George Heisler.

Comment by Laila Christiansen on March 18, 2010 at 12:24pm

Hi! My great grandfathers sister went to Lübeck, Germany, and married a Paul Georg Hasche November 7th 1914. She brought with her a son, Odd Larsen, born in Norway in 1904.
They lived in Lübeck on these addresses:
1914-1918 Mengstrasse 28
1918-1921 Fischergrube 40
1921-1926 Dornestrasse 18
1926-1927 Dornestrasse 11.
After 1927 no mention of the family, and they are not found dead in Lübeck.

P.G: Hasche was a butcher.

Does anyone have a tip on where to go from here? Any online databases, or places to send a letter/e-mail?

Any help would be very appreaciated!
Laila Christiansen, Oslo Norway

Comment by RL (Bob) Nielsen on March 15, 2010 at 5:13pm

I am related to the Nielsen family who immigr to the US from near Loit, Schleswig-Holstein, the Pittman / Bittmann / Biedmann family who immigr from Framersheim, the Schnepp / Snapp family who immigr from Plobsheim in the Alsace region of France, and the Witzke family who immigr from Sitno in today's Poland (yesteryear's Prussia).

Comment by PF on March 15, 2010 at 3:25pm

I am related to the Borchard and Friedrich families who came to the US from Werxhausen and Duderstadt.

Comment by Sherril Edward Bilky Jr on March 11, 2010 at 7:44pm

Thank all of you for the helpful ideas. This is my biggest stumble blocks

Comment by Liz Loveland on March 11, 2010 at 1:53pm

Sherril,
The advice columnist in Palatines to America's newsletter would suggest that you try plugging variations of the surname into the website of a German phone book or two to get an idea of whether the name is widespread or concentrated in a certain area of Germany.

Have you found them in Castle Garden's database?

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