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Comment by Catherine Davis on July 5, 2010 at 7:45pm: Myrna,
I found a ship's list for a 6 year old Wilhelmina Harbarth from Prussia, but it won't attach to this general message. I tried to send it to you directly, but I got a message that you and I have to be friends before I can send you a personal message. So, you will get a "friend's request" from me. If you make me your friend, I can send the digital image.

Here's the info on the list, if you'd prefer to not go the friend's route.
Ship Name: Circassian
Arrival: 15 Sep 1868, Port of NY
From: Prussia To: US Class: Steerage
Harbarth, Carl, 34, m, no occupation indicated
Rosalie, 30, f
Wilhelmina, 6, f
Bertha, 4, f
Baby, 5/6 (sic), f
August, 2, m

I played around googling Kreis Friedland and, although it seems a bit complicated to figure out the whole area, Kries Friedland appears to be part of the area that became Posen, Poland. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlochau_%28district%29 , or just google Kreis Friedland, West Prussia, Posen, etc.

Comment by Catherine Davis on July 5, 2010 at 6:51pm: Alison, do you have any approximate dates which might give us some ideas of where we might specifically suggest you look? As far as I know,the only places you can search for names in Germany by just plugging in names without any other info are familysearch.org, http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start (which is a new LDS site), ancestry.com, and geneanet.com.German records were, and are, kept in the city and state archives where an event took place, not in a centralized government database, and even in the LDS microfilms, the data is stored by town. Do you have any approximate dates of births, marriage, immigration, etc. which can help you? If you haven't already done so, you need to work backwards from yourself to Adaliene using US records as far as you can in the hopes you'll find more info to lead you to where to look in Germany.

Comment by Myrna Garwick Bowman on July 5, 2010 at 6:13pm: Hi, I am trying to find out what area of Germany my gr-grandmother may be from. Her name is Wilhelmina Haarbarth;b 3/23/1862, d 11/10/1934. I have that she was from Kreis Friedland, West Prussia. She arrived in MN, time unknown.
I would appreciate any information on where this area may be.
Thank you,

Comment by Alison Zak on July 5, 2010 at 5:07pm: Hello! My great great grandmother was Adaliene Steib. I know that she married a Greiner and immigrated to New York but that is all. Are there any helpful websites for German ancestry?

Comment by Lillian Alline Champagne on July 1, 2010 at 3:48pm: Hi All, I have ancestors of the Haberlie and Durr lines who were born in Germany. (Sigmarigen and Lomersheim to be exact). I also lived in Germany for three yrs and speak, read and write a little German which may be of some help to those who don't. My Haberlie/Durr lines landed in New York, and Pennsylvania, lived in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Texas. I can be contacted at califmeme@yahoo.com Would love to hear from others also researching these lines. Thanks, Lillian

Comment by Earl Watt on July 1, 2010 at 8:15am: I have 2 lines from Germany. My maternal line goes to Margaretha Robard born in 1810 in Holstein, Germany. Her daughter was Catherine Tank, Born in Schleswig-Holstein Germany - 31 Mar 1839, D Fremont, Nebraska, 15 Oct 1917. The family came to the USA on the Ship Germania From Hamburg and Havre in 1869 (Germans to America Vol 22). Her mother was not listed with the children.

My wife descended from Daniel Ludi of Thaleischweiler Germany, B 1657, Died in Thaleischweiler, Sudwestpfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany on 28 Apr 1730. Their son was Johann Nicolaus Ludi B 17 Jun 1727 Died in Perry, Pennsylvania, USA on 17 Feb 1813 Married Anna (?Hannah) Elisabetha Grob who was born on 29 Apr 1737 in Germany.

I have a lot of information on the descendants of both families to the present day. Any help would be appreciated.

Comment by Gail Louise Richards on June 30, 2010 at 1:22pm: Greetings - I have traced my father's maternal family back to Karl Freidrich Heinrich Buchholz born in Damarow, Pommerania on 11 January 1813. His first wife, Charlotte Wilhermina Necker, died in 1855. He immigrated with 8 children and 2nd wife, Marie Luise Tesch, in 1855 from Hamburg and arrived in South Africa in 1859. His eldest daughter stayed in Germany (Hurien ? Wilhemina Luise) and died 1835. A son, Wilhelm Christian Ludwig, disappeared from home as a young boy (born 1844) and is rumoured to have gone to America. Of the 8 were Justine Tesch and Karl Tesch. Herman Carl Heinrich Buchholz (my grear-grandfather) the second youngest son of KFH, was born in Sielzenburg in 1856, married August Zieglesmit. Youngest son of KFH changed the spelling of his surname to Buchholtz. I am interested in KFH's heritage as well as any siblings. I also have difficulty in finding the places of birth etc as many do not exist any longer. Any assistance is appreciated. Regards.

Comment by Paul Roesch on June 24, 2010 at 7:30am: Rösch

I am looking for Ancestors and Decendents of Adolph Rösch and Albertine Martin who had 4 children,
Sophie Elizabeth, b. 17 Apr 1876
Marie Albertina, b. 28 Oct 1877
Ludwig Alfred, b 15 Feb 1880
August Alfred. b. 3 Aug 1881
They lived in Rastatt in the 1880's. Adolf was a hairdresser and wig maker.

August married Marie Amann, they had a child Ferdinand. August immegrated to the USA in 1922 and she followed 2 years later.

August was my father and other than this information I have little information of my German ancestors. If you are related and can help me with my search it would be appreciated.

Respectfully
Paul A Roesch

Comment by Randall Stackhouse on June 22, 2010 at 7:24pm: Thanks Michael! My Great great grandmother was Rosina Christina Birkicht b. 04 Nov 1848, Germany. She died 18 Jan 1928 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. She was the daughter of Jacob Christoff Birkicht and Christina Friederike Ziperle. He brought her over to New Brunswick and then returned to Germany. She was never to see her family again. She married Edward Almon son of William Almon and Mary Marr.