Hans Alber,
I have something you can take a look at. It is living abel from the general area of Minnesota that others were found. If you have seen this. It's okay. I can only have you go to roots web and put in anna Seil or just Seil. You scroll down to where it says Peter Rausch. Then the submitter should be Jon Karl Wilbur. Maybe that will help you learn something.
I have been following this very closely because of so many surnames seem to fit for me. Especially the Rausch and the Aicher.
My brother told me yesterday that there were Abels in Martin county. He said they own a electrical shop. I will check up on it. I ran accross something else too. But I have to check your old information about the Hermann Abel.
I do wish people would spell kingdom of Hanover - Hannover
Hope it helps some. If anything it will be interesting.
Dear Gutt Morgan,
many thanks for your remembrance of my Hermann Albers. I had contact with the
Frankfurt general embassy about him, but was told for documents to write to some
official addresses in New York. I will do that next time, although the given
prizes are much alike, if not higher to the staatsarchiv wages. We will see, how
to get along that way a bit further. I still hope to get the information here by
some of his anchestors or heir at law.
The "Abel" - way will only be successful, if there is a writing-error, because it
comes from another meaning than "Albers". Abel first was a hebrew name and in
middle age was used with the meaning of "trace, touch, trifles", my name
"Albers" , as also "Albrecht" is derived from medieval "Adalberath", what had the
meaning " of nice, lucent art". Of course one may teasingly ask, what is the
difference ? So the answer is up to everybody. In the question of my research for
bearer of my name, "Abel" is not a central path. But thanks for the trial.
But perhaps I have something for you. These days was an article in newspaper
about the jubilee of the gardeners-establishment SEIL in Bleckede. Didn�t you
tell of some people of yours going there in the past. These SEIL-family is there
for more than hundred years. I served the article anywhere and there is a
possibility to find it back again, if needed.
Nassau = it�s the same town name as Nassau/Bahamas. "The grand-duchy of Nassau"
is the name for the governance of a region at a time, when the rule in Germany
was scattered up to hundreds of different acritocratic rulers - some smaller,
some bigger. One of the smaller one was the "grand - duch of Nassau". For the
exactly boundaries at which time, one has to look for a historical atlas. The
translation into German is "Gro�herzogtum Nassau".
Sincerely Hans Peter Albers