Germany and German Ancestry

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Comment by Linda Ann Metzger on July 10, 2009 at 10:21pm

I am researching Leopold Schlesinger b. Brotchizen Germany and resided in Chicago.

Comment by Joanne Schleier on July 10, 2009 at 10:08pm

My husband's paternal SCHLEIER line goes back to Ramrath, Dusseldorf, Germany. Also, I used to live in Heinstadt near Hanau.

Comment by Linda Ann Metzger on July 10, 2009 at 9:53pm

My in-laws are Bauers. They resided in Queens and NYC.

Comment by Frances Baer on July 10, 2009 at 9:44pm

Linda K, I wonder if your Bauer line is connected to my Baer (Bar) line? They spelled it several different ways. Would love to chat with you and see if there is a connection.

Comment by Rick Greathouse on July 10, 2009 at 9:40pm

We found a clue in a "Brave New World: Rhinelanders Conquer America", journal of Johannes Herbergs journey to America. Herbergs wrote, "On the morning of Aug 27 [1764] we went to see a man whom Mr. Kurtz had said we should see called Jan Grothus whose father Hermen came from Bielefeld and who has been here for the last 50 years and lives only a mile to one side.

Herman Grothaus appears to have purchased 9,000 acres in Oct 1709 from an agent of William Penn, Col. Rhedegelt, who was traveling through the Palatinate trying to encourage settlement of Penn's Colony in the new world.

At that time, present day Bielefeld, Germany would have been Bielefeld, County of Ravensberg, Electorate of Brandenburg, Prussia.

So we are hoping to discover Herman Groethausen's family roots in the early church records of Bielefeld.

Comment by Kristi Hay Hilton on July 10, 2009 at 9:33pm

Looking for the Höh family in Gerhardsbrunn. Valentine Höh (b. 24 June 1821 in Gerhardsbrunn, d. 30 July 1906 in Pike Township, Stark County, Ohio) was my third great grandfather. He, along with his first wife & 4 children, came to the US in 1864.

Comment by Beverly Bakos on July 10, 2009 at 9:29pm

Searching for BARRINGER, DAPPER, EHRHARD, GROSH, KERST, NIEDERMAN, SENG, and ZIMMERS - after emigrating, my lines settled in primarily in the southwestern Ohio counties: Auglaize, Butler, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, and Shelby

Comment by Andrea on July 10, 2009 at 9:27pm

My German/Prussian ancestors are:

OBST (Altwasser, Schlesien, Prussia & BergKamen, Germany) -- I know all about my grandmother and great-grandparents who came here (my grandmother is still alive and I was fortunate enough to meet my great-grandparents). The trouble is with the ancestors prior to the U.S.

NEUGEBAUER (Prussia/Germany)

HACKE-HOFFMAN-HELL(E) (Prussia/Germany) -- Her mother died within a week of her birth. She was brought up by the Hell(e) family...possibly by an aunt.

SCHÜTTE (Una Kries Hamm, , Germany & Kamen, Germany)

RUBARTH (Prussia/Germany)

PULVERREITER (Pommeromia, , Germany & Kamen, Germany)

LENNEPER (Prussia/Germany)

KRABS/KRABBS (Prussia/Germany)

WERNER (Breitscheid, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia)

PETRI (Breitscheid, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia)

MÖHLIN (Breitscheid, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia)

KAPPENSTEIN (Prussia/Germany)

Comment by Darlene Hueser on July 10, 2009 at 9:26pm

My Baldus line goes back to Stockum, Germany.

Comment by Linda K. on July 10, 2009 at 9:21pm

For Carolyn Dunlap Franklin:

Our Bauer relatives lived in Schorndorf, Wurttenburg, Germany.

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