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Offline Peonie

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Re: How Do You Say Help!" In German?
« Reply #9 on: Friday 27 May 11 13:45 BST (UK) »
Hi Josh,

perhaps you could try the Philadelphia Archives and search for Jonas, news papers, rag trade journals etc. Relatives might have an idea which German State  he is from. Without knowing his birth place it's just about impossible to do any research.

Good luck, Peonie

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Re: How Do You Say Help!" In German?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 27 May 11 14:22 BST (UK) »
I think if you just learn enough to say thank you to your ancestors, for making you who you are, that would be more than enough.   ;) :D

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Re: How Do You Say Help!" In German?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 27 May 11 14:45 BST (UK) »
Hi,

There is a Jonas H Hilbert on the Hamburg Passenger list 1850-1934 on the Ancestry site and have you tried the Pennsylvania German Society, they might be able to help you.

Then there is this site.
http://www.searchgenealogy.net/Germany.html

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Re: How Do You Say Help!" In German?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 27 May 11 20:13 BST (UK) »
Peonie, My relatives didn't even know his name! I'm not going to find what part of Germany he came from here. I'm hoping the boat records will tell me where he's from. Xin, I'm writing a book about my ancestors, but I'm not publishing it. I'm going to give it to my son after I pass on. Lyne, I'll check into that Hamburg ship, and the Pennsylvania German Society will be invaluable at some point if I'm to understand a German immigrant. Thanks for getting me wise. I have to know the part of Germany this guy came from. I'll find it somehow. Thanks for all the help. You might say, "Oh, we didn't find anything!", but you've moved me a step closer nonetheless. Contact me if you come up with any new ideas. Later,  Josh


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Re: How Do You Say Help!" In German?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 27 May 11 20:44 BST (UK) »
There are lots of TREES on Ancestry with the name Jonas Hilbert.........

?  at least 14 

are you a member...

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Re: How Do You Say Help!" In German?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 27 May 11 20:54 BST (UK) »
On Ancestry  there is a Jonas Hilbert  a private during the American Civil War in Pennsylvania discharged 1864 - there are more details I can't access.

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Re: How Do You Say Help!" In German?
« Reply #15 on: Friday 27 May 11 21:04 BST (UK) »
xin, No I'm not on Ancestry. I'm a guitar teacher. The Great Recession hit and wiped out half my schedule and I still haven't recovered, and now my working wife needs an operation, so she'll be on half-pay disability income, so I have to do this on the cheap. On the free if you don't count the $10. I pay a month for dial-up. But I'm almost done, and I haven't spent a dime on it. janam, My grandmother told me one of my ancestors was a private in the Union Army, but she said he was shot in the head. I haven't found any verification for this story.  Josh

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Re: How Do You Say Help!" In German?
« Reply #16 on: Friday 27 May 11 21:15 BST (UK) »
There might be something in your grandmother's story as Jonas was discharged in 1864 before the end of the war then I assume it was because he was wounded. Ancestry often do a two week free trial.

Jan ;)
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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Re: How Do You Say Help!" In German?
« Reply #17 on: Friday 27 May 11 21:25 BST (UK) »
accidental repetion of earlier post. Sorry!