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Tuesday, 2003.0114.1410,EST: Dear Steve,
Sometimes a connexion is a long time coning...yes, I'd also like to see a
discussion group get going with regard to the diffeent Kastner/Castner family trees.
There were certainly more than one of the name who came over from various parts of
Germany. I know of one man,
a Paul, I think, who came to Philadelphia ca.1689. My own
ancestor, Balthasar Kastner, came over from the Black Forest in 1753 or '54 and
settled on the coast of Maine. And there
are others, notably some of the Amish persuasion, who ended up in/around Lancaster, PA.
If you want to explore all this further, feel free to contact me via
<richercastner(a)netscape.net> Regards, R.C.