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Posted: 7 Feb 2015 6:59AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gaa
I My great grandfather was Adam Gaa, from Plankstadt Germany he came to the US with his uncle a Mr Gund , he came to Chicago..his family traces back to 1645 , or about..Fredrick Gund was his uncle and spent his life in Chicago....Adam married Stefhanie Hagganjois ( not sure of the spelling ) in Galesburg, Il. Let me know if you are interested.Marlene Gaa Bliss

Re: Gaa

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 2:50AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gaa
I'm very interested, as I am convinced that all of the Gaa's from Baden are related. My 3rd greatgrandmother was Helena Gaa from Hockenheim. I've traced her line as far as her grandfather Johannes. It looks like he came to Hockenheim from somewhere else and married Rosina Zimmermann there in 1777.

I have a cousin in Hockenheim who told me Schwetzingen was about 6 miles from Hockenheim. On the map it looks like Plankstadt would be about 8 miles. I know there were families that moved back and forth from Hockenheim to Schwetzingen and possibly Plankstadt. Maybe some of the Gaa's were among them.

Randolph Gaa's post on 3 Jan 2011 makes it seem very likely that all Gaa's are related and I think it would be nice to document all that. I've tried contacting Randolph Gaa, but no luck.

Norm

Re: Gaa

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 1:26AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi... Who was your Helena Gaa's father? I have a Helena Gaa, b. 1840, in my tree as the sister of my great-great-grandfather John C. Gaa, but that would make Johannes and Rosina Zimmerman her great-grandparents. John C. Gaa's parents were Johannes (John) Gaa Sr. and Catherina Schaefer. The Johannes who married Rosina Zimmerman was born in Plankstadt. There are a lot of old German birth and marriage records for our Gaas from the 1700s and 1800s that you can see (at least all the info from them) for free on Familysearch.org, in case you haven't checked that out.
As for the original post on Adam Gaa, I have not run across him in my tree but agree that he almost certainly related to these Gaas.... Gary

Re: Gaa

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 4:21AM GMT
Classification: Query
Helena was born September 17, 1813 in Hockenheim the daughter of Johann Michael Gaa and his first wife Maria Anna Wilhelm. Michael and Anna were married on May 13, 1800. She died on March 6, 1814. Michael than married Anna Maria Hermes on May 17, 1814. She was the daughter of Markus Hermes and Barbara Strasin. She died in November of 1843. So Helena is a half sister to John, Sr.

The Helena you mentioned was born July 19, 1840 and was married three times, the first husband was Jacob Schneider. They had one child, Emma Schneider, born in May 1861.

As regards Johannes and Rosina, I don't doubt that he was from Plankstadt, but the Catholic records for Plankstadt don't go back far enough to document that. The next nearest church is in Schwetzingen and those films haven't been indexed yet. The marriage record from Hockenheim reads in part; "Johannes Gaa, a Catholic widower and Rosina Zimmermann, a Calvanist". This raises the question, who was Johannes' first wife? Some of the researchers say say Barbara Wilhelm, but nobody has a marriage record to support that, nor do they have a death record to show she died before Johannes and Rosina were married in 1777.

Aside from his brother Joseph and his half sister Helena John had several nieces and nephews that came to the U.S. and maybe another brother.

BTW, I do use Familysearch.org sometimes, but most of what I get comes from the films. I like the films better because you get more details.

Regards, Norm

Re: Gaa

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 5:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Marlene, could you tell us about what year they were born and about what year they came to the U.S.? ttyl, Norm

Re: Gaa

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 6:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for that information. Now I'm going back to search for where I saw that Johannes (b.1736) was from Plankstadt. I've only recently been researching the Gaas. And that is a very interesting bit from the marriage record of Johannes and Rosina Zimmerman.
I also didn't know who Anna Hermes' parents were, so thank you for that as well... Gary

Re: Gaa

Posted: 14 Feb 2015 12:16AM GMT
Classification: Query
On my "Gaa page" (http://www.smithorians.com/norms/gaa2.htm) under "notes" in the first section there's a link "Marriage Record". This is a scan of Johannes and Rosina's marriage record on film number 1052580.

I'll try to get scans of some of the other records my next trip to the FHC.

ttyl, Norm

Re: Gaa

Posted: 14 Feb 2015 3:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you, Norm. This is all great information and I have added it to my family tree on Ancestry. I'm trying to build as complete a tree as possible there on the Gaa family not only for me but to benefit others in the future.
I have found one other child of Michael Gaa and Anna Maria Hermes in the familysearch.org christening and death records - Johannes Gaa, born May 16, 1833 in Hockenheim and died May 1, 1849, also in Hockenheim... Gary

Re: Gaa

Posted: 17 Feb 2015 12:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
I've been doing somewhat the same thing, except my FTM file is more of combination of families from Hockenheim that came to Upper Sandusky. When you start digging through the church books you find all these families are interconnected or related in Hockenheim.

An example of these connections; your John Gaa, Jr. is married to Barbara Bastel, her aunt,
Dorothea is married to Henry Fleck, his brother Frank is married to Catharine Klee, her sister,
Susanna is married to Martin Orians, his second cousin Johannes is married to Helena Gaa,
John, Sr.'s half sister.

With regard to the Johannes born in 1833, I have him in my FTM file, but didn't put him on my
web page because he was born about nine years after Michael died. I really need to look at his
baptismal record before do anything else with him.

ttyl, Norm

Re: Gaa

Posted: 18 Feb 2015 6:29PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hmmm, that is odd about Johannes. The FamilySearch record ("Deutschland, Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NHT8-PHM : accessed 18 February 2015), Johannes Gaa, 17 May 1833; citing ; FHL microfilm 1,052,580) clearly has his parents as Michael Gaa and Anna Maria Hermes. I wonder now if it's perhaps a transcription error and he was actually born in 1823 instead. There is a gap there between Maria Anna, born May 1821, and Joseph, born Nov 1824, where you might expect to find another child. Thanks for pointing that out... Gary
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