When researching anything that is "German," it is improtant to try and
ascertain the relegion, most were Putheran or Catholic and as groups these
folks settled soemtimes in the the New World in simliar communities.
Familes usally came togehter, though not always the case. Many German
Catholics and Lutheran came because of religious persecution, but at
different times. About 6,000 Ault Lutheraners, left in the 1840's because
of conflicts with the state church, most of these were from Pommern,
Silesia, Brandenburg. Catholics often were from other areas and many came
later as they may or may not have been German/Prussian, they may have lived
close to border areas or in one of the many countrys that came and went.
Asutria, Hungary, Bavaria, Rhine Land, some of what is towday Poland. All
of these were often German speaking peoples.
Religion helps narrow down areas that they left and where they settled.
Find others in the area, find the chruch wehere they first went to when
they went to America. People from this part of the world often times had
their social lives centered around thier chruch.
lastly with Zimmerman/Zimermann, remeber the NN and N cahngedged sometimes
in the same document when immigrating or in the same family, an N was
dropped or added.
Sorry if you thought I was preaching, but that approach has worked well
from me.
Rob Bowe
Zimmermann descended from Micheal Freidrich Gottlieb Zimmerman, son Of
Johann Zimmermann, (Koertenthin, Isle OF Wollin, Pommern, Prussia (North
Germany East OF Hamburg.) Immigrated to Dodge County, Wisconsin.
Clair Johnson wrote:
Yes. Bayern is the same as Bavaria. Neuhaus means (new house). But
it
has been a long for my german.
No, I do not know what town my grandmother was born in.
She and Albert came over separately as they did not know one another
then. They met in Brooklyn.
Two problems for me. One is that I do not know when either of them
came or with whom.
Two is that I don't know anyone from their pasts.
My father Edward Frederick Zimmerman did not talk about his past. His
sister Clara said that her mother and father did not talk about their
past. So we have very little information to go on.
So, Albert and George could have come over together or George and Lena
could have come over together. Believe they would have had to travel
to Breman or another port to come over.
Need a lot of help.
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