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Emil Carl Schmidt

philgomes — 2009-11-09 20:16:17Z

Looking for information on my great grandfater, Emil Carl Schmidt.

B: 18 Dec 1860 in Germany. Perhaps in Bremen or a place once called Kallies (sp).

He came to the U.S. in 1884 in lived in Minnesota where he was married to Amanda Thomander in 1886.

Thanks,
Phil Gomes
aamkajutsu@gmail.com

Re: Anna Elizabeth Merke

CaelMaglio — 2009-10-28 11:31:24Z

I will only be passing photos through email - please contact me @ cael.maglio@gmail.com

Thank, Mike

Re: Anna Elizabeth Merke

Brynn56 — 2009-10-26 22:54:23Z

I would love to see anything you have. I really have no info on her. Other than she was married to my GGGrandfather

Re: Bremen

carlaabrams — 2009-10-25 01:31:19Z

The previous post about Huhnken is 8 years old but if you are still there, I am meta and martin huhnken's great niece. Knew meta well and her sister's daughter is sitting here with me. Know stuff about huhnken family on long island NY. Knew your grandfather "bobby".

Re: Anna Elizabeth Merke

CaelMaglio — 2009-10-24 02:08:21Z

I have info on Anna. She was my gg-grandmother. I have photos of her and her mother Margaret (Albig) Merke.

Baum Family

randomness876 — 2009-10-21 02:26:42Z

I would like to find information about my g-g-grandfather Louis Baum, who was born in 1868 in Germany and emmigrated to New York in 1885. Louis was married to Bertha Lippman (born 1869,emmigrated 1889). They had 2 children, Irving and Jeanette.

I believe, but am not certain, that Louis was the son of Joseph Baum and Amalia Mayer. I'm not sure if they ever came to America.

re Braciszewski's in Pa.

mej1948 — 2009-10-17 02:12:38Z

Looked at your tree,but couldn't find the Braciszewski name.Our family settled in the Western NY area,Buffalo NY.
If you could supply me with some names,perhaps I could look them up and see if there may be a connection. Thanks ! Marie J.

Re: Relatives from Poland/Germany

mariehicks58 — 2009-10-16 23:05:10Z

My Former husband has cousins Braciszewski, I am just doing the family tree since they would be cousin's to my Children.The family lived in Phila,Pa Jonh immigranted to Phila from Poland in 1890,, Please feel free to look at my homepage Take care Marie

Sinclair from Bremen or Bremerhaven

pixiedust523 — 2009-10-15 14:36:54Z

Looking for Henry Sinclair census has him being born in germany 1826 and listing Breman. He was about or one year of age entering Maryland USA. Death record said he lived in Maryland 65 of his 66 yeas of age. Need help . We tink tho the family is of scottish decent as there are a lot of red heads and fair skin through out the family.We have always heard there was Scottish in our blood. I can't find any shipping records for imagration. Any and all help will be apreciated

Re: Warncken

trevorkamsze — 2009-10-10 22:45:30Z

yes this is a match. Look forward to hearing from you.

I have sent another message with my contact details.

Trevor Nash

Re: Warncken

helenmontgomery39 — 2009-10-07 23:25:30Z

i have managed to find some information out about george but it is conflicting in that i have found information to say he was born in germany and then again saying he was born in england?

Re: Warncken

macavoybrown — 2009-10-07 18:44:47Z

YES George Warncken was my husband's Great Grandfather

Re: Warncken

helenmontgomery39 — 2009-10-07 01:29:12Z

hello i am helping my friend with her tree she has a george h warncken born in 1846-1894 married to harriett kendle 1849-1924
is this the same george?

Re: Adam Missler

wanative62 — 2009-10-05 18:30:50Z

Suzy, I'm a cousin of some of the Misslers, and have found Adam in several census records. According to the 1900 Census, he emigrated in 1852.
Let me know if I can be of further help.
Kate

Re: John Harbert Duis

gymmomtx — 2009-09-27 03:41:01Z

Does anyone have a list of the full names of the children of Stiene (Christina) Duis Kaiser? I found their emigration record but it gives only first initials: The family includes: "G. Kaiser (45, farmer, Illinois), Ch. (44, "weif"), H. (18, son), Carl (14, son), R. (7, son), W. (16 "dater"), Fr. (9, dater) and J. (3/4, dater)"

Mattfeld in Achim bei Bremen

mss1964 — 2009-09-25 20:37:34Z

I am looking for information on the family of Heinrich Mattfeld in Achim bei Bremen. He is my great-grandfather. My grandfather, Friedrich Mattfeld came to the U.S. in 1922 or 1923 and landed at Ellis Island. He ended up in Puyallup, Washington and is buried in the U.S. Veterans' Cemetery in Portland, OR.

I am looking for any information I can find about the Mattfeld family in Germany. I believe there might have been a sister named Margaret Mattfeld. I do not know my great-grandmother's name, but, her maiden name could have been Bachmann.

Re: Seekamp

JohnSeekamp450 — 2009-09-20 18:41:45Z

Sorry it took this long for my response, I missed your posting somehow. Not a match but thank you anyway.
John.

Re: Petra Tietz Hankins ? Or Lylvia ? Tietz

aimeehankins1 — 2009-09-19 04:21:07Z

Tanya ,

please get a-hold of us. Arial has been searching for you. Arial # is 309-721-9257

Re: Wilhelm & Julius Fischer BREMEN Germany

EthelynG — 2009-09-12 19:50:33Z

I think I might have some info for you. My father was Freddy Julius Fischer and his grandfather was Wilhelm Fischer from Bremen. Wilhelm and his wife Doris Hografe had at least five kids; Julius, Herbert, Louie, Alvina and Albert Fischer. All born in New Braunfels.

Re: German Research in Bremen/Bremerhaven

snik67 — 2009-08-26 16:37:34Z

Try the State archive's email

zentrale@staatsarchiv.bremen.de

and ask them for help. I used Altavista to send a loose translation in German but I think they will help if you write in English.

Good luck, Raymond

Thiebold Muller and Dorothea Bollmann

LDeTrano — 2009-08-04 21:18:44Z

My 4th great grandmother, Dorothea Bollmann was married to
Thiebold Muller (umlaut over 'u' in Muller) 17 Nov.1799.
Their daughter, Wilhelmina Muller b. 26 Nov 1800,Bremen,died
21 Nov. 1882-81yrs of age, married Johann Friedrich Mennerich 14 Mar 1828.
Thiebold b. 1763 Bremen died before 1828
occupation - shoemaker
Thiebold's parents- Tibolt Muller & Maria or Margareta Janssen, married 14 June 1759, she was also the widow of Ludwig Talla.
I also found out Tibolt came from Kloster Gerbietsheim,
Nassau-Saarbruckischen.
With all of this, I'd love to find out more on Dorothea Bollmann if anyone can help.
Thank you Kindly,
LDeTrano

Re: Hammeken descendants

guero_hmkn — 2009-08-24 07:52:22Z

Hello !!
I would like to contact you, regarding a research of the HAMMEKEN family ancestors, descendancy and history.

Re: Anyone going to Historisches Museum Bremerhaven ?

ujoh — 2009-08-16 09:34:50Z

I tried this with your ancestors...

I was able to get through to payment... when I tried again later on I also encountered problems...

I suggest you write an email describing the problem to the contact address:

info@deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de

Unfortunately, Schmitt (and other versions of the name...) is a very common name in Germany... so you would need their last place of living (which presumably is listed in the database....)

Re: Belken family from Germany??

ujoh — 2009-08-16 09:23:17Z

Try this link

http://www.dad-recherche.de/hmb/index.html

There are a lot of Belkens listed there... also for 1852...

Unfortunately they want you to pay to get the complete information... but it should also contain the last place of living before leaving Germany....

Re: Koppelmeyer, Limestone TWP, Kankakee, IL

ujoh — 2009-08-16 09:18:48Z

Forget about my last post: more simple:

Your Koppelmeyers can be found here....

http://www.dad-recherche.de/hmb/index.html

Unfortunately, they want you to pay to get the complete information. But it is very likely that it contains the information where was there last place of living in Germany... presumably also the region where they came from...

Re: Stuck! Need help and advise! Can't move forward

ujoh — 2009-08-16 08:51:56Z

Presumably your ancestor was not Jewish but Huguenot. So you may have French roots.
If he really was from Prussia then it may be that his family left France in the late 1600s. Prussia was one of the states in Europe that allowed and even wanted these French protestants to immigrate.

Try this link

http://www.hugenotten.de/htm_ger/index_ger.html

This is the Huguenot society in Germany. They keep records of Huguenot immigrants to Germany. Maybe a family Lepine immigrated to Prussia and later on your ancestor went to England.
So there was a family Lepine in Prussia you can trace perhaps your ancestor back to them.
What is more there seem to be some families by the name of Lepine in Germany.
http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/lepine.html

Re: country of orgin Hungary or Germany ?

ujoh — 2009-08-16 00:31:15Z

I suspect that the name of your ancestors was originally spelled Grübnau.

You did not mention anything about the time they emigrated....
Could Elbany be Elbing - a town in Western Prussia (today Poland)...?? Also Grübnau seems to have been a common name in Western Prussia...
And although I am very sure that the curious name of the town Zeyos or Zeyeris is misspelled or misinterpreted from handwriting... there were a lot of villages or towns with - in a way - curious sounding names in that area...

Re: Roedel / Rodel born in Germany

ujoh — 2009-08-15 23:44:40Z

You could request the birth certificate of your relative in Marktleugast (local administration)...

Sent you the link in my other post...

The birth certificate will give you more information on parents... If they were born before 1875 you could check local church registers... If they were born 1875 and after the registration office in Marktleugast can probably help you... (if these people were born in that town).....

Re: searching for Marktlengast,Germany

ujoh — 2009-08-15 23:38:30Z

I think this might be a misspelling...

The town's name seems to be Marktleugast in the region of Oberfranken (southern part of Germany).

http://www.markt-marktleugast.de/

The name Rödel is also more or less common in that area.

Re: Koppelmeyer, Limestone TWP, Kankakee, IL

ujoh — 2009-08-15 23:13:06Z

As you probably know Koppelmeyer is a name still relatively common in Germany.
The "densest" population of Koppelmeyers today is in the region of Minden-Lübbecke.
I found that some books exist containing the names of emigrants from that area....
Perhaps you can somehow check these books for your Koppelmeyers....

Book 1:

Band 38/39 (1980–1981) 2. Auflage. 733 Seiten, 1 Karte als Beilage, kartoniert, 36,– €, ISBN 3-402-05053-6.
Friedrich Müller: Westfälische Auswanderer im 19. Jahrhundert. Auswanderung aus dem Regierungsbezirk Minden. 1. Teil: 1816–1900. Alle zu ermittelnden Angaben über diesen Personenkreis (wie Eltern, Ehepartner, mitauswandernde Angehörige, Reiseziel usw.) sind in über 9.600 Eintragungen zusammengefaßt. Tabellen, Quellenverzeichnis, Abkürzungsverzeichnis, Auswanderer-Namenlisten, Personenregister, Ortsregister (Herkunftsorte der Auswanderer, Zielorte der Auswanderer).

Book 2

Band 47/48 (1989–1990)762 Seiten, kartoniert, 58,– €, ISBN 3-402-05096-X.
Friedrich Müller Westfälische Auswanderer im 19. Jahrhundert. Auswanderung aus dem Regierungsbezirk Minden II. Teil: Heimliche Auswanderung 1814–1900. Der Band widmet sich der heimlichen Auswanderung aus dem Regierungsbezirk Minden. Er umfaßt den Zeitraum von 1814 bis 1900. Die meisten Auswanderer verließen ihre Heimat, um sich der Militärpflicht zu entziehen. Alle zu ermittelnden Angaben über diesen Personenkreis (wie Eltern, Ehepartner, mitauswandernde Angehörige, Reiseziel usw.) sind in über 18.500 Eintragungen zusammengefaßt.

Re: Albert Carl Rudolf Burzloff

ujoh — 2009-08-15 22:21:28Z

I made a quick research in the internet and found this:

The name of the town where this person was born is correctly spelled Tschebiatkow - situated in Eastern Pomerania. Later (after 1929) it was called Radenfelde.

Interesting is this link I found where the inhabitants of Radenfelde/Tschebiatkow between 1920 and 1945 are listed.

http://www.buetow-pommern.info/materialien/doerfer/tschebiat...

You will find a woman called Lilli Burzlaff still living there in 1944. But according to this list she lived in 1947 in
Gr.-Rosenburg/Saale, Gartenstraße 18.

So at the end of World War II she obviously emigrated to the west...

Neufeld is most likely also not the Neufeld you found (which is probably situated in Schleswig-Holstein...) but there is another Neufeld, Kreis Rummelsburg, also in East Pomerania.

This region - East Pomerania - today belongs to Poland.

Perhaps the attached link can provide you with more help or information or even the possibility to find relatives...

http://hinterpommern.de/

Unfortunately it is in German....

Re: Emde

ujoh — 2009-08-15 21:42:40Z

Your ancestors probably came from the Waldeck area (today state of Hessen in Germany). Maybe they emigrated via Bremen to America.

The name Emde is still very common in the Waldeck region.

Re: Neumark in Bremen

ujoh — 2009-08-20 05:19:08Z

There are different places with that name but not in the Bremen area

see link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neumark_(disambiguation)

Re: Neumark in Bremen

ujoh — 2009-08-20 05:17:05Z

There are different places or regions with that name but not in the Bremen area...

see link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neumark_(disambiguation)

Re: Belecken family from Altenaffeln!!!!!

ujoh — 2009-08-18 09:06:53Z

Try to contact the local church...

I found this link saying that church records in Affeln date from 1674 !!!!!

http://margaretekissmer.gmxhome.de/Affeln.htm

For contact, you could try this email address

archiv@erzbistum-paderborn.de

That's the office of the archbishopric Paderborn (to which Affeln belongs) where they centrally keep church registers.

Belecken family from Altenaffeln!!!!!

MDRBelk — 2009-08-16 21:12:41Z

Since I posted this query, I have found some information on my ancestors from a LDS church film.
I have found that my family lived in the village of Altenaffeln, Westphalia and the chruch they went to was St.Lambertus cathlice church in Affeln.
Joannes Belecken was born in 1806 and married Carolina Linnemann on aug 24, 1833. They had six children.
I would like to now find the parents of Joannes and some of his sibblings.
Any information on this would be great.
Thanks!

Re: Belecken family from Altenaffeln!!!!!

MDRBelk — 2009-08-18 11:49:14Z

Thank you for responding to my query!
I am ordered the LDS church films for Affeln about a month ago and that is where I found the information that I now have. So I have to study the film for a while and see what else I can find!
Thanks so much!

Re: Anyone going to Historisches Museum Bremerhaven ?

MorganCole34 — 2009-08-16 22:36:27Z

Thanks for trying. I was able to get ahold of the museum. They don't know why I could not complete the transaction. Thanks again for trying.

Morgan

Re: German Research in Bremen/Bremerhaven

cjsperl — 2009-08-26 11:37:22Z

I have just found out that my ggrandmother Anna Meta Hackmann was from Bremen. Is there any information on the best way to search these records. I have requested films on other ancestors and have had no luck. I am sure it is "operator error"

Claudia

Re: Stuck! Need help and advise! Can't move forward

Belinda937 — 2009-08-16 10:16:51Z

Dear Ujoh,

Thank you very much for your reply.
You have given me some very interesting tips which I will look into.

I had been told that we were originaly form the Hugonouts, but again never got concrete proof.
It will be very interesting to get to the bottom of this.

Again thank you for your time in replying to this bullitin.
If it ok with you I will keep your details just in case I need to pick a brain for direction.

Best regards
Belinda

Re: August E. Landgraf & his family...need info

BethScholz31 — 2009-08-01 21:38:26Z

But can you tell me anything about his parents??? Are Emma,Caroline,and Maria his siblings???

Re: Seeking information

giovannida — 2009-08-24 15:34:21Z

Tú eres hermana de Federico Almonte Knipping? Si es correcto, favor ponernos en contacto. Saludos, Giovanni D'Alessandro un amigo del surf

Neumark in Bremen

Kindred_128372 — 2009-08-20 04:37:37Z

Is there a town called Neumark in Bremen,Germany?

Weetenkamp, Wetenkamp, Kaiser

BillSteigerwald — 2009-09-15 21:06:23Z

I am researching the Weetenkamp family of Maryland. John H. Weetenkamp arrived in 1886. I have photos of his sisters (Bertha and Johanna) taken by a photographer in Bremerhaven Germany. It is possible the family came from Oldenburg.
His sister Johanna's married name was Kaiser and she lived in Berlin during 1921.
The family was Catholic, Jesuit educated. It is believed his brother or other relative visited Baltimore on the uBoot Deutchland in 1916. Unfortunately, the crew manifest is unavailable. I also know he traveled back and forth to Germany in the late 1890's and early 1900's. His first wife was Frances Duerbeck died in child birth (Married and died in 1893)and second wife was Adelle Hatfield (Married 1895) of Maryland. Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.

Re: Fathers family

MaryAliceKoeneke — 2009-08-11 23:55:37Z

My father, Albert Koeneke was the son of Meta Rahmann from Geestemunde Bermany. They arrived with my grandfather Walter Koeneke and my aunt Waltraut in 1929 and lived with my grandmother's brother Dietrich on his farm in North Madison, CT. My great grandfather was born about 1875 and died in 1951. He was married to Albertina. Are we connected?

Re: Neumark in Bremen

@@ltboehmke@sbcglobal.net — 2009-08-21 19:41:42Z

If you think they might be in or around Bremen you can check with the good people at Die Maus.

www.genealogienetz.de/verein/maus/index

Look for the English button

Re: ehrenbeck

cerebralgent — 2009-08-09 19:55:26Z

Yes I have a great great uncle Gotlib Rees please get in contact with me. 818-201-4993 or email cerebralgent@gmail.com

Re: I dont know where Leidner Comes from?

nenitachula3 — 2009-08-10 07:46:10Z

My grandpa which was a Leidner,his father was from Gemany and im not to sure what his first name was but im going to ask my mother.

Re: Gehrig

suabyrne1 — 2009-09-15 15:42:32Z

You say that you have Lou Gehrigs father's death - I am very interested in finding out the cause of death/medical conditions listed on the cert.

Re: Wilhelm & Julius Fischer BREMEN Germany

KayleneFischer — 2009-09-14 15:35:01Z

I don't think we have the same family. Names are close but my Wilhelm Fischer was married to a Louise Clausen both born in Germany. Julius Fischer was born in 1854 Germany. I don't have a Freddy Julius Fischer. There is an Edward Julius Fischer that would be the grandson of Wilhelm but he was born in 1884 in Wisconsin.
If there is any information we can compare that might connect the family somewhere, let me know and I would be glad to share. Thanks!