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- entry for OSBORNE, Marie, 4 October 2000
- entry for PERRENOUD, Kamee, 4 October 2000
- entry for STOWE, John, 4 October 2000
- entry for STERN, Craig, 25 January 2001
- entry for URICK, Karen, 25 January 2001
- revised entry for SCHILLING, George, 29 July 2001
- revised entry for CLARK, Susie, 11 September 2002


CLARK, Susie
eMail address: dukers36@aol.com

I am researching Baptist BENKLER, born in Baden, Germany in May 1822. He married Johanna (last name unknown), also from Baden, Germany. Johanna was born 11 February 1825. They emigrated to the U.S. and Baptist BENKLER served in the Civil War as a Captain for an Ohio Volunteer Infantry unit. He died in 1883 and Johanna died in 1880. They are both buried at Canal Fulton, Ohio. I am aware of one child named Amelia Emma BENKLER who married Joseph Frank MONG (it could also be spelled MANG) on 7 June 1900. I am interested in finding the parents of Baptist and Johanna and any immigration records that may be available.


CROMER, Buddy
14AUBURN@aol.com
(Methodist and Baptist)

I am looking for information on John Michael CROMER born 1706 in Baden, Germany. His wife's name may have been Mary. She must have died in Germany before John Michael immigrated to America with his children in 1752. His three children were (all born in Baden, Germany: Frederick born circa 1732; Jacob born circa 1733; and Charlot born circa 1741. John Michael and his children lived in Union South Carolina (Dutch Fork). John Michael received a bounty of 200 acres from King George (Petition ... Council Journal, Vol. 20, Pt. 2, page 533). He died in South Carolina. The family's religions were Methodist and Baptist.


DONAHUE, Peggy Lee
eMail address: pllak48@earthlink.net

I am looking for info on my ancestors from Baden, Germany, William LAUTENSCHLAGER and his wife, Magdalene PFEFFER. Both were from Weisloch, Baden, Germany. William was born circa May 1855 and Magdalene was born circa June 1855. They had at least one daughter, Caroline, around 1877, born in Germany, and possibly two others. The parents of Magdalene PFEFFER were William and Elizabeth PFEFFER. William and Magdalene LAUTENSCHLAGER came to America in 1881 or 1882. I would appreciate any info on this family. My father is 83 and really wants to know who his ancestors are.


FRYMAN, James
eMail address: JFRYMAN1@aol.com
(Lutheran?, Methodist)

I am researching Barbara Louise WEISS born 17 March 1856 in Baden, Germany. Her siblings were: Margaret WEISS, Mary WEISS, and George WEISS. Barbara immigrated to the U.S. in 1871. In the U.S. she was a Methodist, but she may have been Lutheran in Germany. Barbara married 1) Jacob HERBER at Pomeroy, Ohio. He died in 1888. She married 2) William Hudson FRYMAN at Pomeroy, Ohio on 2 June 1888. (Note: The name FRYMAN was originally FREYMAN in Germany.) She died at Canton, Ohio on 4 October 1935.


GERNHAUSER, Henry
eMail address: hankgern@ih2000.net

I am researching Anna Maria DIRMEYER born circa 1797 in Thringen (near Amt Breisach), Baden, Germany. She married Emanuel BLESSIG / BLESSY at New Orleans, Louisiana in a Presbyterian ceremony circa 1820. Emanuel was born circa 1797 at Strasbourg, France. Anna Maria died 14 June 1855 at New Orleans, Louisiana. Emanuel died 28 May 1825 atn New Orleans, Louisiana. Their children were: Salonea Caroline, Maria Amelia, and Emanuel.


HELLER-CAMPBELL, Anna
eMail address: JCampb3461@aol.com
(Lutheran)

I'm looking for the parents of Conrad MAGNUS who may have been born in Baden-Baden circa 1847. He married Eva RETZER on 22 October 1874 at Brooklyn, New York. Eva was born in Bavaria circa 1850. Her parents are unknown. They had five children of which only one lived, my grandmother, Anna Eva MAGNUS HELLER born in 1879. Conrad lied about where he was born when he tried to get into the Navy to fight in the Civil War. He told them he was born in New York. On his death certificate, it states he was born in Germany and lived 43 of his 45 years in New York. I have his Civil War records and have found him in the Brooklyn city directory. I have not been able to find ship records for his family. I found the family in the 1880 census in Brooklyn, NY. They both died in Brooklyn and are buried in the Lutheran cemetery. Conrad died in 1893 and Eva died in 1899.


HOTZ, Timothy
eMail address: thotz@reliable-net.net

I am looking for information on Franz Joseph HOTZ, born in 1832. On his enlistment papers for the Army, his birthplace was listed as Kingsing, Baden. The closest spelling to this that I have been able to find is Kenzingen. I'm not sure when he left Baden, but he immigrated to America, arriving at New York on 6 July 1853. He settled in Vallonia, Jackson county, Indiana. His wife's name was Maria CHRIST or CRIST, born in Hanover, Germany in 1842. Her father's name was John Phillip CHRIST or CRIST. Maria and Franz Joseph were married on 22 January 1860 at Brownstown, Indiana. Their children were: Carolina born about 1860, died about January 1863; and Joseph Carl born 6 July 1863. Franz Joseph HOTZ died in the Civil War, 28 March 1863 at Spanish Port, Alabama. Maria married two more times after that and died 4 August 1898 in Jackson county Indiana.


JOHANN, Ernestine
eMail address: ernestispeg@hotmail.com
(Evangelical Lutheran)

I am trying to find the village my gr-grandfather, Adam Georg (or Georg Adam) JOHANN emigrated from Baden, Germany in 1850 to come to the U.S. The village was near Heidelberg. He landed at New York in October 1850 and settled at Richmond, Virginia. He was Evangelical Lutheran. He married Margaret DIETRICH SCHILL. SCHILL was the name of a former husband. She had a daughter, Barbara SCHILL, by her first husband. Margaret was a native of Switzerland. Adam was buried in Shockoe Cemetery at Richmond, Virginia 2 April 1877, so I assume he died the end of March 1877. Adam and Margaret had only one son, Adam Ernest JOHANN, my grandfather. I would also like to find the names of Adam Georg's parents. According to my father, Ernest George JOHANN, who died in 1962, his grandfather, Adam George, worked as a bookkeeper at the Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond, Virginia. The iron works hired many immigrants, both German and Irish. Ernest's son, Adam Ernest, studied for the Lutheran ministry, but became a pharmacist and owned his own drugstore at Richmond, Virginia.


JONES, Elizabeth
eMail address: anhmom@yahoo.com

I am searching for information on the parents of Mathias / Matthias / Matheus FINER / FIENER, and also confirmation of his birthdate and place of birth. The information I have on him so far is that when he was 28 years old, he emigrated from Rotterdam, Holland on the ship "Gale" in the summer of 1751. If this is true, he was born about 1723. The ship list gives his name as Mattheus FINER; age 28; from Friesenheim; trade, farmer. He made his home at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, and married Anna Barbara MEISNER on 24 September 1753. The IGI says he was born about 1723 at Friensenhiem, Baden, Baden. I have also heard that he came from Baden-Durlach. I believe that his religion was either Anglican or Lutheran.


McCRAE, Sarah
eMail address: Mccrazies@juno.com

I am looking for information on my gr-grandfather, John STEURENTHALER, who was born in Baden, Germany and immigrated to the U.S. at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana 23 April 1889. He was listed as 24 years of age when he applied for citizenship on 28 October 1890, according to the Probate Minutes, County Court, Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas. He listed Baden, Germany as his place of birth and I estimate his date of birth was 1866. His brother Konrad STEURENTHALER immigrated to the port of New York on 7 November 1893. Konrad was 25 on 5 November 1894, and he applied for citizenship at San Antonio, Texas. Konrad listed his birth place as Hindergarden (Hinterzardten?), Germany. John married Ida BRAUN in Texas and had two children: Anna, born 20 April 1901, and Ervin, born 3 June 1897. John died 24 November 1904; Ida died 20 August 1951; Anna died 16 April 1988; and Ervin died 16 August 1929. All died at San Antonio, TX, except Anna. She died at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. I do not have any other information on Konrad. In fact, I do not see him listed on any Texas census records. As for their religion, I believe it was Catholic.



MORGAN, Denise
eMaila address: Denmarmor@aol.com

My grandfather, Eugene GANZENHUBER, was born 4 July 1908 at Ford City, East Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He died 5 November 1971 at Detroit, Michigan. His father's name was Eugene VON GANZENHUBER and he was born on 1 January 1883 at Hauberbrun, Baden, Germany (Buhlbronn? near Haubershronn - now belonging to the city of Schorndorf). He died 25 January 1955 at Hacienda Heights, California. Eugene's father's name was John Jacob VON GANZENHUBER and he was born in Germany. Eugene's mother's name was Caroline (Karoline) BEUTTEL. My grandfather's mother's name was Berthianne Agnes LAPPAN. She was born 29 March 1884 at La Puce, Ontario, Canada and she died 20 October 1978 at Cambria, California. Her mother's name was Elizabeth GIRARD and she was born 22 February 1856 at Bell River, Ontario, Canada. Berthianne's father was George Jacob LAPPAN (son of Charles LAPPAN and Francisca RIOPELLE) and he was born in 1853.


NIEMER, Rita
eMail address: Loviti@aol.com

I am searching for Carl HUMMEL, born in Baden, Germany and his wife Philomena (last name unknown) of Baden. Their daughter, Rosalia HUMMEL, married John George METZNER. Rosalia was born 12 March 1838. She immigrated to the U.S. around the 1850's and settled at Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio. Other daughters of Carl and Philomena were: Sophia HUMMEL, married Joseph GEISSLER (born in Baden circa 1829) and Catherine HUMMEL.


OBERT, John
eMail address: obertclan@worldnet.att.net

I am a 9th generation OBERT and am tracing my family's lineage. I'm looking for others researching the OBERD / OBERT family of Baden, Germany. My 6th great grandfather, Matthacus OBERD, who was born in Baden, Germany. He married Maria REICHARD. They had at least one son, Petrus OBERD, who was born 29 June 1729 at Volkersbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. Petrus married Magdalena HENHOFFER (nee REITER) in Mar 1759 at Volkersbach, Germany. Petrus and Magdalena had at least one son, Caspar OBERT born 6 Jan 1766 at Volkersbach also. Caspar married Maria Anna KUNZ in Aprl 1793 at Burbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. Caspar and Maria had at least four children: Caspar born November 1801 at Burbach; Peter born May 1803 at Burbach; Mathias born November 1808 at Burbach; and Otillia born May 1811 at Burbach. Peter is my 3rd great grandfather and he married Barbara GLASER October 1826 at Burbach and had one children, Caroline OBERT, born July 1827 at Burbach. I would like to know if Matthacus OBERD had any other children born to him and Maria, and if so, whom and when. Also would like the same information for my Petrus OBERD and Magdalena. Our family started out as Roman Catholic, but I've come to understand that changed when some emigrated to America to avoid persecution. I need information on whether Matthacus, Petrus, or Caspar had any other siblings or relatives. Also need is Matthacus's parents, if available. Any additional information on others mentioned above would also be appreciated.


OLSEN, Sylvia
eMail address: solson@uslink.net

I am seeking information on my great grandfather, Marianus GREULICH, born 25 March 1830, somewhere near the town of Walldurn in the north part of Baden, Germany. He was the youngest of five sons. His father was the son of a baron and was the largest landowner in the village where they lived. He had 100 acres of land, divided in 80 pieces scattered around the village. Marianus took part in the rebellion of 1848. He immigrated to New York in 1852. I do not know what religion they were. Marianus GREULICH changed his name to John MYER when the work gang foreman put that name down for him because he said that Marianus' given name was too difficult for him. John married Harriet Emily FINN (born 29 July 1838; died 2 April 1900) on 20 March 1856. John died 17 December 1907 or 1908 and is buried at Penfield, New York. John and Harriet had the following children: Charles, Dora, William, Hattie, Anna, Louis, Frank (my grandfather), Grace, John, Carrie, and George.


OSBORNE, Marie
eMail address: Lochbrady
(Roman Catholic)

I am searching for information on John BERG, born 1831 in Baden-Baden (according to 1900 Federal census for Stark county Ohio). He immigrated to the US and married Catherine SCHILLIG 12 November 1861 in Stark county Ohio. Catherine was born 1842 in Stark county Ohio and was the daughter of Joseph SCHILLIG and Sophia CHOPER. Catherine died in 1925 in Stark county, Ohio. John and Catherine BERG lived and are buried at Maximo, Ohio. Their children were: Sophia BERG KNAM born 1863; Margaret BERG BECK born 1865; Joseph M. BERG born 1867; John Otis BERG born 1871; Louis Edward BERG born 1873; William E. BERG born 1876; Charles BERG born 1879; John Joseph BERG born 1881; and Gertrude M. BERG GULLING born 1885. The family were members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Maximo, OH. John BERG (1831) had a sister named Barbara BERG TRAPP.


PERRENOUD, Kamee
email address: ozzywild@hotmail.com

I am researching Paul Feodor HEIMBERGER, born 31 May 1871 in Baden, Germany. He was the son of Simon (or Sebastian) HEIMBERGER and Rosa FROEHLICH. He immigrated to the US via New York City circa 1891 and he married Minnie SCHWARZ in 1894 at Brooklyn, New York. They were married by a Lutheran, J.P. BEYER, from St. Johannes Church on Maujer and Graham Avenue. Minnie was born in July 1872 in New York. Paul and Minnie had two children: Paul Jr., born 1895 and Louisa born 1900. He then married my great grandmother, Clara BISCHOFF, in 1911 at Indianapolis, Indiana. Clara was born 16 October 1889 at Grand Rapids, Michigan and died 20 July 1850 at Malin, Oregon. Paul and Clara had the following children: Frederick Paul, born 1911; Fern Maurice, born 1913; Margaret (married CROCKETT), born 1916; Francis Amelia, born 1919; Erma Lillian, born 1925; and Ruth Elizabeth, born 1925. Paul supposedly came to the U.S. with a brother and I would like to find information about him. I am also looking to find the exact city of his birth and records of his family in Germany, and would like to contact descendants of his marriage to Minnie SCHWARZ.


RINE, Sandi JETMORE
eMail address: pebu@pe.net

I am researching my great grandfather, John Isaac JETMORE, born in Baden-Baden in 1798, and is said to have immigrated to the United States when he was 18 (circa 1816). He married Mary BRANNON in 1821 (not confirmed) at New York City (not confirmed). John and Mary had the following children (there may have been two more): David, Nathan, Abraham, Jacob, Samson, Levi, Isaac, and Elizabeth. The family lived in Ohio and then moved to Muncie, Delaware county, Indiana. John Isaac died at Muncie, Indiana 2 February 1863. I have an article about one of John and Mary's sons who lived in Kansas. In the article it says that John Isaac was educated at Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. I have been unable to find any information about John Isaac before he came to the United States. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


SCHILLING, George
eMail address: GTSBABOO@aol.com

I am seeking information on my SCHILLING ancestors. Acobina Katherine (maiden name unknown) born 27 February 1804 at Neulusheim, Baden, Germany, died at age 93 in February 1897 at Pomeroy, Ohio. Her husband, George Henry KUNNATZ died 1831 in Germany. Acobina KUNNATZ lived at Pomeroy for 46 years. The family was apparently Lutheran. Acobina left a surviving daughter, Mrs. Margaret SCHILLING. I need information on the husband of Margaret SCHILLING. Acobina also left 7 living grandchildren (including John SCHILLING of Logansport, Indiana, my grandfather; George Adam SCHILLING of Chicago (who was born 24 August 1850 in Baden, Germany; Mrs. F.W. STEINBAUER; and Miss Katie SCHILLING). She also left 22 great grandchildren and 3 great great grandchildren. From a different source, I have information that the parents of George Adam SCHILLING of Chicago were of the revolutionary element in 1848 and immigrated in 1852 to Pomeroy, Ohio and that he lived at 1453 Marquette Road at Chicago. My father, George A. SCHILLING, was born in October 1891 or 1892 at Zanesville, Ohio. His parents were John SCHILLING of Logansport, Indiana and his mother was named Elizabeth. George had three sisters: Margaret WHITE of Detroit, Michigan; Mamie LYTLE of Detroit, Michigan; and Emma VASVARY of Miami, Florida.


STERN, Craig
eMail address: bstern@pacbell.net
(Protestant)

I am researching Henry STERN or STERNHEIMER believed to have been born circa 1832 in Baden, Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. on the ship "Zurich". He married Emily ARMSTRONG (from Bourbon, Kentucky) at Arcata, California around 1854. They had five children, all born in Arcata, CA: Bernard Frank, born 4
June 1856; Oscar David (twin), born 9 January 1859; Lewis Edgar (twin), born 9 January 1859, died 17 October 1859; George Douglas, born 24 February 1861; and Henry Stewart, born 25 August 1862. Henry STERN died on board a steamship leaving Eureka bound for San Francisco in 1862 and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery at Arcata, California. The family religion is unknown to me; it may have been Episcopalian or Presbyterian. I located some paperwork in Eureka that indicated that Henry had changed his name from STERNHEIMER to STERN. Although the passenger list for him and his brother, David, says the name is STERN. I am assuming that they shortened their name before leaving Germany. Henry's brother, David STERN, arrived in New York on 8 Jul 1848 on the Bark (ship) "Euclid" which departed from Bremen, Germany. According to the 1860 census, he married a woman named Frances from Hanover. On the 1860 census, David claims to be 36, which means he was born circa 1824. David and Frances had five children: Jacob, born 1851 in New York; Caroline, born 1853 in New York; Henry, born 1855 in California; Sigmund, born 1857 in California; and Louis, born 1859 in California. I am assuming that the births of the children born in California took place in San Francisco.


STOWE, John
eMail address:stowe@execpc.com

I am seeking information on George EBERT, born in Baden in 1823, and married Mary Ann HAPPY, who was born 1820 in Baden. Mary Ann didn't have any siblings. George and Mary Ann EBERT had a daughter, Catherine, born 24 May 1849 in New York City, NY, died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1924. Catherine married Alexander GIFFORD on 24 December 1870 at Janesville, Wisconsin.


TYCE, Sylvia
eMail address: styce@sprint.ca

I have very little information about my grandfather, Johannes NEIDIG, born 13 September 1882 at Horrhenberg bie Weisloch, Baden, Germany. He died at Heidelberg, Germany 9 March 1964. He married Marie STAIGER who was born 24 April 1881 at Kleingardach Schluchtern, Wurttemberg and died 11 October 1930 at Heidelberg, Germany. They had four daughters: Trudel, Effi, Irma, and Elisabeth. They had one adopted son, Karl. I would appreciate any information on who my grreat grandparents were and where they
were born.


URICK, Karen
eMail address: kurick@voyager.net

My great grandmother, Emilie KINDORF, was born in Stockmatt, Kreis Loerrach, Baden, Germany in 1862. The KINDORF / KUNDORF family was first found in this area in the 1770's. My earliest ancestor is Hans Georg KUNDORF, father of Johann Jacob KUNDORF, born 10 November 1777 at Ebigen, Kreis Loerrach, Baden, Germany. I would like to know where the KUNDORF family was located before the 1770s.


WEBB, Pamela C.
eMail address: CWebb13734@aol.com

I am seeking information on Johann Joseph LINK and his wife, Helena KLEIN of Baden, Germany. Helena was born about 1802 in Germany and died at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri in June 1852. I don't know anything about Johann or when he and Helena married. Family tradition says that Johann died during the revolution and that Helena and her children (Catherine, Genevieve, Francois, Louise, Anton and Mary) immigrated to the U.S. in May 1852, arriving in New Orleans. They traveled up the Mississippi to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. I need information on the parents and or siblings of Johann and Helena.


YOUNG, Karolyn
eMail address: Ky4456@aol.com

I am looking for information about my great grandfather, Max KIRCHHEIMER, born in Baden in 1844. His wife was named Sophia (last name unknown). Max emigrated to the USA (probably around 1866) and became a US citizen in 1872. Max was a butcher and lived at Brooklyn, NY. The children of Max and Sophia were: Klahra born 1867; Adolf born 1869; Sammie (my grandfather born 1871); Lahden born 1874; and Charly born 1879. The children were all born in the U.S. This is all the information I have.



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