Notes on this board show Ittels from Alsace and also from Bavaria. The story within my family of Ittels (who settled in Philadelphia around the 1870's) is that they were from Alsace, and I can remember my great-aunt Theresa (born in the 1880's, in Philadelphia of German immigrant parents) saying "The Ittels are more French than German" - yet the Pennsylvania census shows that her father (my great-grandfather), George ittel, was born in Bavaria.
I don't have any explanation for this, but I am wondering if the others researching Ittels have found origins in Alsace, Bavaria, or both.
My email address is different from the one I had when I first posted to this list a few years ago. It is
helminska@comcast.net.
Thanks.
Margaret Ittel Helminska