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MY FAMILY GENEALOGY Paternal Ancestors Primary Surnames K�HL, [CALE], KARCHER, BAUMETZ, HAURI, HOWERY, BEERS Bamberg Rathaus St. Johann (Now part of Saarbr�cken) Ancestral village of Philipp Jacob K�hl
Maternal Ancestors Primary Surnames HORNING, HORNUNG, MILLER, YOUNG, JONES, WILSON, ABSTON, GRAHAM
St. Johann Saarbr�cken, Saarland, Germany Home Page
Arbeitsgemeinschaft f�r Saarl�ndische Familienkunde e.V. Saarland Genealogy Group Saarbr�cken Weather Current weather - in English EMIGRANT POEMS "The Ageless Gift" An emigrant poem written especially for this site by Rebecca Watson Walker "The Last Sunday in the Homeland"
THE HISTORY OF MILLSTADT, ILLINOIS, Compiled by Robert Buecher Zion Evangelical Church, Millstadt, St. Clair Co. IL, founded 1836 by German immigrants from near Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Gottfried Hornung, my maternal immigrant ancestor, was an early member of this church. K�lleda, Thuringia, Germany Home Page Ancestral village of Gottfried Hornung
SHIP PASSENGER LISTS
Ports of departure: Le Havre, Bremen, Hamburg, Torquay, Southampton
Ports of arrival: New Orleans, New York, Galveston
Years of arrival: 1834, 1846, 1849, 1850, 1862, 1878, 1879 MORE SHIP PASSENGER LISTS Mary Ross Home Page A companion site to this one. Features her German heritage, plus more transcriptions of immigrant ship passenger lists. PALMER LIST OF MERCHANT VESSELS Michael Palmer's completely documented web page of vessel information and some pictures. There is information about some of the ships in the transcriptions on the above links. EMIGRATION Emigration Voyage Contract Scans of the original German document with translation by Faith Gibson Tegethoff. GERMAN HISTORY The German 1848 Revolution: A German Perspective "A Practical System of Modern Geography" Excerpts from the book by J. Olney, A.M. Published 1850. Author describes the people, industry, political boundaries, cities and other aspects of 1850 Germany and Poland. GERMAN MAPS Searchable site for maps of Germany. EARLY TEXAS HISTORY A Complete Story of Texas Statehood A timeline of the events leading up to Statehood. W. T. Block's Home Page. Early Texas history as well as genealogy. Victoria County, Texas Home Page
Indianola Immigrant Database Historical account of Indianola immigrants. Includes submission form for descendants. Indianola, Texas "A Lost Seaport of the Texas Gulf Coast" Many links with additional ones to other ship passenger lists. Indianola, Texas From "The Handbook of Texas Online", a short history of Indianola (formerly Karlshafen), Texas and the German immigration there.
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