Hi, Suzanne.
Perhaps those letters can lead you to someone who still lives there.
That's what happened for me. My dad's cousin had two letters from Bad
Zwischenahn from the 1920s. I looked in the current phone book, and there
was still someone living there who had the same last name. So I contacted
them -- mailed the letter from the post office on Friday morning, and by
Monday morning I got a phone call from Germany. I was in touch with my
great-grandfather's sister's family!
Forgive me if you've already done these things, but since you mentioned
that you are new to this game, I'll make a few suggestions:
Check in the current German phone books
(Das Telefonbuch >> Jetzt Personen und Firmen finden!) to see if there's anyone by
that name in or near the places where those early letters were addressed.
Send some letters.
Get copies of death certificates for your great-grandparents and anyone
else born in the Old Country. (I've personally never found anything
useful that way, but others have.)
Check at the historical society or library for obituaries which might give
where a person was born.
if your great-grandfather was a church member, look at the church records.
In two cases in my family, my ancestors were charter members of their
churches, and the pastor listed very full information, including place of
birth, and in one case, names of parents.
There's a Hengemuhl [no final "e"] who immigrated in 1854 from Lohningen.
That's on Ancestry. I also found a "Hengemill."
I checked the Mormon "FamilySearch" site and found that there are films of
Catholic church records for L�ningen. If your people were Catholics,
you're in luck.
If they were Lutheran or Reformed, there are no films, but since it
appears your people really were from L�ningen, perhaps you could hire
someone to read them. Give them all the details, so they can search
efficiently.
Good luck!
Greetings from Wisconsin,
Marilyn
Yep,that would be the work of myself and a few cousins on Ancestry.
We've
got a good handle on his life in the US, but nada, zip, nichts for the
land
of his birth.
~SuzanneThere are a couple of family trees for John George August Hengemuhle of
Louisville, Kentucky, on Ancestry.com. There are also a couple of other
records that might be useful. Let me know if you need anything
further.
Marilyn
> Ich versuche hier einer nicht deutschsprechenden Person zu helfen.
(justsue2u@gmail.com -Suzanna Berger-)
>
> Sie schreibt:
>> I've also found the line of Hengem�hle cousins that immigrated to
Minnesota. (Cousins according to family lore only; no data.) What I
have
>> not
>> found was any information related to my g-grandfather John George
August
>> Hengem�hle (b. 29-Jun-1860 in Oldenburg). He Immigrated to Kentucky
in
>> 1883
>> as a farmer, but took up carpentry with the H.J. Macke company in
Louisville. In the 1880's and 1900's, he used to correspond with B.
Hengem�hle in L�ningen and Heinrick Hengem�hle of Essen in
Oldenburg.
>> (Also
>> a J. Heinr. Rolfes in Borkhorn bei L�ningen, Amt Cloppenburg,
Grossherzogtum
>> Oldenburg.)
>
> Jetzt habe ich selber Hengem�hle in meiner Familie wei� aber nichts
von der weiteren Verwandschaft.
>
> Bernadina Catharina Dorothea Feldhaus war die Tochter von Hermann
Anton Feldhaus und Anna Margarethe Hengem�hle. Sie ist eine meiner
Ur-Gro�muttern. Anna, (*28 Jan 1843, +20 Mar 1884), pa�t in das
Zeitalter der obigen Hengem�hle Leute.
>
> Hat jemand diese Linie weiter erforscht?
>
> Fred
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