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Comment by Mary Louise Bonney Hymel on July 14, 2009 at 7:07pm: Looking for information on 18th century German migration. Family names include Harbaugh, Kraft, Eschmann, Buncher (Bonchur), Berger, Mueller, and Kahly (Kahley). I think they may have come mostly throught PA. If you have any info, I'd love to hear from you!

Comment by Pat Flick Childs on July 14, 2009 at 3:03pm: I'm looking for the Flick family, August Herman. {my grandpa} He was born in Prussia in 1870, place unknown, came to America, when unknow, on a unknown ship, and became a citizen in 1896 in Pittsburgh, Pa. He married Anna Jane Forsythe and came to California in 1930 and passed away there. I have his death cert. and all the census say born in Germany. I don't know of any relatives he had in Pennsylvania. My parents and his children have all died and I would like some info on him if anyone has some. THANKS !

Comment by Joan Hartman on July 14, 2009 at 2:05pm: Is anyone else researching GORING/GOHRING/GERING/GEHRING? Ernest Gohring/Goring immigrated to the US around 1865...possibly New Jersey area. Married Margaret Jacobs (possibly a Mohawk Indian) in Brooklyn, NY. Children: Charles, Kate, Louisa and Frederica. Margaret dies sometime after 1880 Census.

Comment by Diane Mason Gray on July 14, 2009 at 1:41pm: Anyone researching WECKENMANN (all spellings), MERTENS, MERZENICH, WERZ, FRIDERICH, FRIEDERICH, HARTMANN, BINDER, KNOBEL, STAIGER, and/or HAUG from what is today southern Germany, all of Catholic faith. The Weckenmanns were from the Black Forest region; Mertenses and Merzeniches from near Cologne and Koblenz.

Comment by Caro Nally on July 14, 2009 at 1:32pm: Anyone researching BOWER, BAUER, FAUST, HAAS?

Comment by gail parish on July 14, 2009 at 12:52pm: I am looking for info on Gabriel Goldsmith from the Dresden Germany area.
He was father to Albert Goldsmith, Rosa goldsmith.

Gail

Comment by Ellie Passalacqua on July 14, 2009 at 12:08pm: I am interested in families that immigrated to Wisconsin from Mecklenburg, Germany in the mid 1800s. My family names are Thede, Peters, Schroeder, Piehl.

Comment by Joan Hartman on July 14, 2009 at 11:40am: Hmmmm...thanks Linda...I wonder if 'schrot' means town or something like that and isn't actually part of the name...hmmmm.

Comment by Beverly Waker on July 14, 2009 at 11:15am: On another surname the Highmiller's came from Germany. Also spelled Himiller or Heinmueller

Comment by Beverly Waker on July 14, 2009 at 11:11am: Our Germans came through Pennsylvania: Schnell or Snell; Stuntz; and Ebersole near the Swiss border.