Hi, Jim, I descend from a long line of Stenger from Soucht.
Both my 8th and 6th great grandmothers were Stengers.
I am in contact with many cousins in France. Luc Stenger is writing a history of the Stenger family even as I type this... I would suggest you do 2 things to reach a number of us with these roots...
1. Join the yahoo groups Moselle email list. It is free.
I am one of the co-moderators and there are several cousins on that list. Subscribe:
Moselle-Genealogy-subscribe@yahoogroups.com2. If you can read and write in French or are willing to use the machine translators to help you (try
www.freetranslation.com or google languages) the GenVerrE
email list is made up of descendants of glass and crystal makers. Stengers were famous glass and crystal makers.
You can visit the multilanguage website at
www.genverre.com there is link there to join the email group which is free.
There is also a paid membership that allows access to all of our databases and there are a lot of Stengers in it!
Also here is a website from another US Stenger relative. Olga is a very nice lady...
http://www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/olgastories/Stengers.htmI have in my Stenger data an Emile Stenger born 1862 son of Joseph STENGER & Madeleine DINTZNER. He married Marie Ursule DINTZNER This is likely a nephew or cousin of your Emile. Names tended to run in the families down the generations.
Laura