Re: Help (again!) finding Mathias Vareng's first wife's maiden name
Hi Sharon, I wonder if this first wife Margaretha ever existed at all and whether an error in Kuhn's St Hubert family book is sending you on a wild goose chase. I looked up the birth records for the...
View ArticleRe: Advertisement for Banat Colonization
Then there is Palatine, IL (NW of Chicago) as well. Google reports:The community, established in 1855 when a Chicago and North Western Railway siding and depot was built, was named for Palatine, New...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Re: Advertisement for Banat Colonization
Hello Everyone,An interesting piece of information about the movement of early Euroupeens reached me via 23andMe. The map explains it well.Greetings from Vancouver Island,Rosinawww.hrastovac.net
View ArticleRe: Advertisement for Banat Colonization
Some dates of deaths in the USA may be found in the published family books as reports to family members in the old country were captured in the church records. B
View ArticleRe: Family books for North American Localities
Dear Dave -- Your message triggered some thoughts I'm having that might be considered in organizing Family Registries. I am by no means on the level you and many others are on this site, but I do like...
View ArticleRe: Family books for North American Localities
EXCELLENT suggestion! Those of us in our 80s realize that fewer and fewer of those in the generations that follow us are as interested as we, who had the good fortune to know personally those emigres...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Re: Advertisement for Banat Colonization
Hi Rosina and everyone, thank you for the information, this gets more interesting evey minute :) The book I found "Early eighteenth century Palatine emigration by Warren Knittle" does have photos of...
View ArticleRe: Family books for North American Localities
Karen, Janis - I would be willing to collaborate on such a project. I remember the excitement of first discovering Dave's "Introduction to the Emigration from the Banat in Passenger Ship and Border...
View ArticleRe: Family books for North American Localities
I’d be willing to help too. My Lovrin great grandfather settled with his wife from Zwittau/Svitavy in Brooklyn, NYC. -Christine Clark
View ArticleRe: Advertisement for Banat Colonization
Thank you, Ron, for reminding us that the English Quaker Penn invited religious persecutors to his colony of Pennsylvania, which was granted to him by the English king Charles II in 1681. Those...
View ArticleRe: Advertisement for Banat Colonization
Hi,I'm no expert but the Palatinate was a region in what is southwest Germany today. I believe it is called the "Pfalz" in German. There is no town called "Palatine"as far as I know. It was an...
View ArticleDonauschwaben Kalender
Christinewow! Did I write all that? It now reminds us how skimpy the Banat resources were that we had at that time.A few of us were still tying to develop working relationships with Banat researchers...
View ArticleRe: Donauschwaben Kalender
Dave, I have been meaning to tell you for so long how much I appreciate your work on the Kalendar and on the ship lists. My Banaters went to Elizabeth, NJ. I discovered from your ship list that my...
View ArticleApplication of theDonauschwaben Kalender
Mary,Many thanks for your account on how you were able to put the Kalender to good use. Such feedback is a reward for undertaking such a project. It should be noted that the abstraction under went...
View ArticleGof/Groff
Can someone please look up Gof/Groff in the Grabatz or Bogarosch family book?I am looking for the parents and siblings of Joseph Grof, born 12/11/1849 in Grabatz, Hungary. He married Anna...
View ArticleRe: Gof/Groff
Trisha,There's no Grof or Gof per se in Grabatz...but perhaps this is what you're looking for?1963 GRAF Jakob [1] <1961.1>* 03.03.1824 Grabatz∞ K 29.01.1849 Grabatz (Tz: Jakob Bartole, Thomas...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Re: Gof/Groff
Trisha,Just to complete what Bill submitted, here are the relevant out cuts from Bogarosch OFB, Best Rudolf Huepfl
View Article