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Comment by Donna Gates-Smeall on July 31, 2010 at 1:11pm: Nancy, what sites are you using to research your Danish ancestors? I too have a host of Danish/German relatives that I need to research and I don't know where to start on this one.

Comment by Catherine Davis on July 30, 2010 at 2:25pm: If St. Sebastian's is the Catholic Church, the LDS has microfilmed the church records, and you can rent the film for a nominal price at your local Family History Center. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframese...*,0,0.

Comment by Lisa R on July 29, 2010 at 9:58pm: Hello, I have done a lot of research on my STEIGER and KESSLER families from Bombach, Germany and their emmigration (1855) to Missouri. They were members of St. Sebastian Church in Bombach. I'd love to hear from anyone who recognizes these family names or anyone who may be able to help me locate burial records from this area.

Comment by Sheryl Lindbeck-Whisenhunt on July 25, 2010 at 2:26pm: Nancy, I'm dragging in the German research. My Grandfather was born in Denmark and my Grandmother was born in the same town, only it was then under German rule. My Grandfather and Grandmother immigrated to the USA while all her siblings but one moved further north into Denmark. The one brother went deeper into Germany joining the German military. I know in September of 1935 he was still in Germany living in Templeburg. The Danish side has been fairly easy to research but, I am now trying to enter into the German research, which puts me into the "baby" stages.

Comment by Bill Drayton on July 25, 2010 at 11:51am: This is a long shot! I am descended from one of two brothers - John Paul Grimke - who left the island of Ruegen in 1733 to eventually go to America - ending up in Charlestown, South Carolina. I know that the ending -ke is from the Eastern part of Germany - it is even Polish-sounding! I met a family of the same name living in Hannover - they had fled from what was Breslau before the war - now Wroclaw - as the Russians advanced. The father of the family had been a mayor of a town on the former border of West Silesia. The son had been born in Danzig in 1939. The father had also been in the Volksfront in the closing stages of the war. I did visit Ruegen shortly after the Wall came down, but it was not a good time to look for family records!!

Comment by Sheryl Lindbeck-Whisenhunt on July 24, 2010 at 9:24pm: Thank you Donna, Nancy and Michael for the websites and directions. Very much appreciated.

Comment by Sheryl Lindbeck-Whisenhunt on July 21, 2010 at 9:27pm: Donna, Thank you so very much for these new leads and directions.Will check them out tomorrow.

Comment by Donna Gates-Smeall on July 21, 2010 at 9:11pm: Some German websites to explore:

German Roots
www.germanroots.com

An Atlas of the German Empire
www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein

BallinStadt Emigration Museum Hamburg
www.ballinstadt.de/Willkommen.html

These two are direct connections to German ancestry. Also, Google
German Military Records and they should pop up.

Comment by Sheryl Lindbeck-Whisenhunt on July 21, 2010 at 7:14pm: Thank you for the response Donna. Will keep watch.

Comment by Donna Gates-Smeall on July 21, 2010 at 6:44pm: There are online records for German military personnel in the early 1900's but I gotta look up the link. I will post it later when I find it.