I wish to congratulate you on a great website, the best I have come across for a long time! Everything is well set out and easy to find. Unfortunately for me, we are not related!

Hi, I am trying to find any info about my Great Great Gran... Clara Wilhelmina Maria Prescott. She was born around 1840 in somewhere called Breslau. I do not know her maiden name only that she married William Prescott who was Irish. Thank you

Sehr verehrte Frau Vandaveer,
Ich kam zu Ihnen durch viele Umwege. Ich war durch Ihre viele Kenntnisse ueber Stein am Kocher und Ihre Hilfsbereitschaft so beeindruckt.
ich bin Ihnen sehr viel Dank dafuer schuldig
Mit den besten Gruessen

I am the grandaughter of Eugene Schanzenbach who is on your site as an immigrant from Binswangen near Neckarsulm in 1864. He had 9 children and changed the surname to Johnson in 1914. Your list also shows a Maria Luisa Gilliare leaving Binswangen same year - 1864 for US. I believe that is who Eugene married altho we have her name in family records as Gilliard. We are searching fro family still in the Binswangen area - any help is appreciated

Ich bin 82 und über 50 Jahre glücklich verheiratet mit einer Frau namens Ute Annelouise Kuhn, geboren 9. August 1938 in Baden-Baden und damals wohnhaft in Rotenfels Murgtal, Ortsteil Gaggenau, bis sie 1957 nach Holland kam. Ihr Grossvater Josef Anton Kuhn ist Anfang 1900 von Stein am Kocher umgesiedelt nach Rotenfels und Ute hat immer in das Haus gewohnt was er gebaut hat.

Ein Sohn von mir zieht den Stammbaum Staal nach. Ich hatte schon lange vor Ihre Gegend zu besuchen, vielleicht dieses Jahr. Ich ware Ihnen dankbar wenn Sie mir einen Start geben könnte auf den geologischen Weg der Kuhns weil ich sehr stark daran interessiert bin.Was ich an Auskunft habe möchte ich Ihnen gerne übertragen. Ich sehe nunmehr eine Rückàusserung entgegen.

Herzlichen Gruss Theo und Ute.
Roosendaal, Holland

My sixth great grandfather was Andreas Schweitzer born between 1690 and 1704 in Stein am Kocher, Germany. My seventh great grandfather from Stein am Kocher was Mathias Schweitzer born there in 1687. I would love to visit there and find them in the record. Where do you suggest I go and who should I see? I noticed in your web information that you indicated there were Schweitzers in Schefflenz but did not see them listed on your Stein am Kocher list of surnames. Interesting that my last name is Wertz and you indicate there were Wirth/Wurth's in Stein am Kocher. Thank you for all your information and I am interested in hearing from you. My great grandmother Mary Jane Sweitzer was from Berks County, Pennsylvania (she married William Campbell Wertz) and her father was Abram Sweitzer (married to Elizabeth Schaffer) who at one time was the foreman at the Oley Furnace in Berks County.

I have several Kolmels, Hoffarths, Nolds in my ancestry. However I am not 100% certain they are really mine. My problem begins when my ggg grandfather Georg Weidenbacher and his wife Johanna Kolmel came to the US. I have a passenger record showing them coming and I know there is proof that a Georg Weidenbacher left Germany in 1867 with \"Johanna Kolmel, frau, und kinder\". But how am I to know that is definitely the same one. I have as Johanna\'s parents Mathias Kolmel and Helena Maier. Johanna was born around 1819 in Steinmauern and George Weidenbach in 1816 in Steinmauern. I would love to have his parents names and if I am correct on Johanna. Thanks. Peace and Blessings this New Years.

I will be visiting Germany in May. My mother lived in Dahenfeld and came to America in the early 1900\'s.Her name was Mary/Marie Kuhn. I would like any info anyone might have about her. Thank you.

Dear Mary Ann,

Thank you very much for what you have done for my father\'s cousin, Carin. Carin was here in the United States for a month with my Dad in Virginia, during which time they were able to visit us in Florida. I was so excited to meet a relative that we never knew of. To me her story is unique but I know there are others in the same situation, searching for lost relatives. I think what you are doing to help locate them is great. And thank you for being so helpful when Carin was traveling to Virginia, even talking on the phone with my father at the airport when Carin arrived, in the minutes just prior to their meeting face to face for the first time.

In America we have a TV show called \"The Locator\" where they reunite lost family members. Anytime I\'ve watched it I wonder how people feel when they find out they have a relative out there that they have never met or never knew about. If meeting them might feel awkward or uncomfortable. I certainly never imagined I would have the opportunity to find out! But I did have that opportunity and I can tell you that I felt neither awkward or uncomfortable at all. I felt like I had known Carin my whole life, even with the language barrier. In this short time she has brought our family closer together and the relationship she and my father have is very special. I am now planning a trip to Germany next year to visit her, and I am thrilled to be able to do so. Thank you for helping to make all that happen. Carin speaks very highly of you and she feels you have performed a miracle, making possible for her what she has sought after for decades.

Thank You Again and Happy Birthday!
Holly Cerullo

Für mich grenzt es an ein Wunder, was du Mary Ann für mich erreicht hast.Seit 50 Jahren suchte ich nach meinem Vater in Amerika. Ich kannte weder die Stadt, noch sein Geburtsdatum. Mit den wenigen Angaben hast du es geschafft, ihn zu finden. Er lebt zwar nicht mehr, aber anhand eines GEN-Tests mit einer anderen Tochter von ihm haben wir das große Los gezogen. Ich habe eine große Familie dazugewonnen und erfahre viel über meinen leiblichen Vater. Ich danke dir von ganzem Herzen für deinen Einsatz, dein Wissen und deinen ausgezeichneten Spürsinn. Rena

Suche Hans Heinrich Stemmer oder seine Angehörigen. Wenn jemand dieses Inzerat liest og Kenntnis über diesen Person oder seine Familie
hat, bitte melden

Mary Ann,

It is wonderful what you are doing to help the people who are trying to find their families. You have found for Carin the family that she has dreamed about since she was 7 years old. Carin is my cousin, she has spent the last month with me in Virginia, USA. It has been a wonderful month and I have introduced her to other cousins. She has heard a great deal about her father and her family. She has seen many pictures that have helped her connect to her family in America. Thank you for the help that you have given her! Carin and I have become very close. Thank you again for helping us to connect.

Don Moore

Mary-Ann, You're the best!
I asked a simple question and you provided me with leads that I never would have found on my own. Wish I could thank you in person.

hey all:thank you mary-ann for the wonderful assistance.you are the best mary-ann the best! i reside in usa and searching for (on me dad\'s side)leonard loesch of bloomfield n.j. from germany and (on me mom\'s side) bailey of keyport,n.j.from ireland.

I'm searching for my daughter Teresa Anne Cate, given up by me, but not by choice. She was born February 26, 1970 in Boston Lying-In Hospital for Women, in Massachusetts, USA. The adoption agency was a State agency, but apparently they had their records sold or given somehow to a private agency "The Home For Little Wanderers". This was not in my agreement with the original agency. I would like contact with my daughter, as would her older sister. I have no income and can't pay the private agency for release of her records. Hope she will find this post.

Liebe Mary-Ann,

inzwischen sind einige Monate seit meinem letzten Eintrag in Deinem Gästebuch vergangen.

Es hat sich zu damals sehr viel geändert, denn Du hast meine Familie in den USA gefunden.

Ich konnte Dir bei Deiner Suche nicht viel helfen, denn ich hatte nur wenige Angaben von meinem Vater, trotzdem ist es Dir gelungen, meine Familie zu finden.

Du hast in der vergangenen Zeit sehr viel für mich recherchiert und bis ins kleinste Detail geprüft. Deine Genauigkeit und Dein Ehrgeiz brachten Dich ans Ziel.

Als Du mir die freudige Mitteilung über meine Familie sagtest, hätte ich Deinen großen Erfolg am liebsten in die ganze Welt hinaus gerufen.

Ich kann mein Glück noch nicht richtig fassen und es ist wie ein Wunder für mich.

Es ist einzig und allein Dein Erfolg und Du kannst stolz darauf sein, denn Du bist es, die meine liebe Familie in Amerika gefunden hat.

Ich kann Dich allen Menschen nur wärmstens empfehlen, die in der gleichen Situation sind wie ich es war.

Mary-Ann, ich bin so glücklich, denn ich habe jetzt mit 64 Jahren meinen Wunschtraum von Dir erfüllt bekommen.

Vielen, vielen Dank für Deine große Hilfe und Unterstützung.

Herzlichst
Carin

I started out looking for my paternal grandfathers birth place in Germany. Not here yet but I know with Mary-Ann's help we will find it. BUT with her help we found my maternal grandfather's birth place in Ireland. You have to keep looking and one day it's all there.

My materal grandfather (Karl Fredrick Baumann) was from Posen, Germany. He was born 11-6-1868. He had a brother Frank, and 2 sisters, Eliza and Helena. I am told he talked of his family owning a forestry business and the polish gvt taking over. He died before I was born on 9-13-1938 on Shelter Island, Long Island, New York. Thank you.

HI...I don\'t know if you can help or if I can afford you, but I am looking for my family in Germany. I am looking for relatives of my great-grandfather, Nicolaus Henry Boisen, who came to America in 1885 on the Suevia from Schleswig Germany. He reportedly left two brothers and a sister in Germany. I believe they were farmers in Germany...and I just recently found a document that listed his father as possibly Claus Boisen and his mother as Maria Marquessen. NIcolaus married Christine Sorensen who was also from Germany in 1890 in the US. Her parents names were allegedly Johann Sorensen and Anna Ohlert. Can you help me with where I need to start looking??? I really need to find my family in Germany! Thanks in advance

Its been over 2 years since you found my son.After 45 years i never imanged it could happend. A great big THANKS and keep up the good work.
captharold