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From: "Lorri" <>
Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Place in Germany
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:32:45 -0500
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Ursula, thanks for replying. I found my Henry Schmidt on Ship Anna sept 20
1851
age 17
town of origin Bargfeld
destination Baltimore
occ. tailor
I cant find him on 1860 census, the first I find him is his marr in 1864 he
lived all his life in Phila. Pa.
Thank you for any help.
Lorri



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Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Place in Germany


> Lorri,
> there is no town Bergfeld in Hesse, there are 2 or 3 towns by that name in
> other states.
> Of course it might help if you'd tell us the name of the immigrant, date
> of arrival/name of ship so that we can check the actual passenger ship
> list rather than a transcription.
>
> Ursula
>
> ____________________________________________________
> There'll come a time, when you'll have no more time.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "juliasgenes" <>
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:49:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Place in Germany
>
> Hi, Lorri ~
> Check JewishGen Communities Database at
> http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp (you may have heard of it
> as "ShetelSeeker", the prior name that means the equivalent of "hometown".
> A Bergfeld search comes out as today's Barchfeld, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen.
> Since I know nothing about German geography (Prussia was near Germany,
> wasn't it? .^_^.), I'll leave you to follow the links from the search. And
> to any comments other Listees care to make. In addition to this list's
> webpage & forum, there's a Rootsweb list called Prussia-Roots that's very
> helpful with these kinds of questions, though I haven't been there in at
> least 1+ years.
> http://www.germanyroots.comhttp://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/DEU/PRUSSIA-ROOTS.html
> Good luck, Julia
>
> --- On Wed, 1/13/10, Lorri <> wrote:
>
> ...the place he lived was BERGFELD would anyone have any Idea where this
> is?...
> Lorri
>
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