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Heidelberg, Germany

Lizzie, Larry and Mark arrived safely in Heidelberg Nov 23, 1999 and will be there for about three years. We will look forward to their impressions and reports from the Old Country.
Their current e-mail address is mcnownlz@hotmail.com
and snail mail address:
L & L McNown, c/o M.W.R.D., Unit 29058, APO AE, 09081

Listed below the letter dates are various Heidelberg and German websites,
Mark's site and photos,

and, of course, genealogy since many of Lizzie's ancestors came from this same Palatine area of Germany in the early 19th century.

Letters from Germany

1999
Nov 24... Nov 27... Nov 30... Dec 1... Dec 4... Dec 7... Dec 9... Dec 17a... Dec 17b... Dec 21... Dec 23...
2000
Jan 1... Jan 6... Jan 11... February...

Heidelberg and Germany Websites:

Heidelberg & Wurtemberg
Darmstadt (in State of Hessen)
- Darmstadt sites
Stuttgart (in State of Wurtemberg)
Esslingen (from whence came the Kiess-Waltz lines)
- Esslingen topics including live cam shot
- Medieval Stained Glass Windows preserved in churches of Esslingen
Frankfurt am Main (in State of Hessen)
- live webcam view of Frankfurt. Frankfurt is about 100 km north of Heidelberg. This site also gives the weather and other information about Frankfurt.
Black Forest
- Black Forest live webcam
Kassel (in State of Hessen)
- Kassel site (in English) near the Flecke homeland
Trier
- Trier on-line (Wendell & Kermit were here once)
Hesse, Winterkasten, Reichelsheim
Homeland of the Schmit Family a few miles north of Heidelberg
- map of Winterkasten area and Lannert family links including photo of area around Reichelsheim
- State of Hesse, Germany
- Hessen Germany, homepage
- Reichelsheim homepage
Bavaria, Nurnberg, Vilseck, Amberg Sites
- Bavaria-Swabia website (in English with links to castles, maps etc.)
  - German castles, monasteries and ruins
- Traveling with Ed and Julie in Bavaria
- Bavaria
- Nurnberg homepage
- History of Vilseck
- more Vilseck
- Amberg Home Page
- Oberlinger Organ in Amberg
General
- Alsace-Lorraine
- Strasborg
  - The Cathedral
Israel
- webcam of Jerusalem, Western Wall

Mark

Photos

(snapshots - click on photo to go to larger view)

Aug 1999

Genealogy: the great grandparent lines and immigrants or early ancestors:

Schmidt
..........Johan Wilhelm Schmidt (1811-74), from Winterkasten, Germany, abt. 1830
..........m. Anna Schwinn (1819-1905), from Bada-Kechum, Germany
................Johann Georg Schmidt (1774-1796), Winterkasten, Germany
................m. Margaretha Lannert
.......................Johannes Schmidt (b. 1737), Winterkasten, Germany
.......................m. Anna Elizabeth Kriechbaum (b. 1736), Winterkasten
..............................Johann Peter Schmidt (b. 1709) Gadernheim, Germany
....................................(changed name from Schmitt to Schmidt)
..............................m. Anna Elizabeth Korber (b. 1712), Winterkasten, Hessen, Germany
..........................................Johann Barthel Schmitt (1681-1741)
..........................................m. Anna Barbara (? surname) (1683-1741)
............................................(Johann & Anna died of disentery on the same day in 1741)

Johnson
..........Jesse Johnson (1782-1825); lived in Northampton, NC
...............Elias Johnson (1808, NC - 1897, IN)
...............Sarah "Sallie" Pierce (1806 - 1880)

Storms
..........Peter Storms, Sr. (1754-1832), from Germany, abt. 1790
..........Elizabeth Bartley (1756-1835)

Weller
..........Johan Philipp Weller (1689-1761), from Diedenshausen, Westfalen, Ger 1728
..........Anna Elizabeth Schafer (1704-1772), from Germany
..........(ancestors of Maggie Weller who m. Charles Johnson)

Foltz
..........Frederick Foltz, Jr (b.1847), from town near Stuttgart, Germany
..........m. Caroline Waltz (daughter of William Waltz & Mary Hurr)
.................Frederick Foltz (b.1825), from town near Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, Ger 1852
.................Rosanna Goodecoontz (bc.1827), Germany

Waltz
..........John George Waltz (1776-1858), from Wurtemberg, Ger 1804
..........Catherine Kiess (1779-1853), from Wurtemberg, Germany 1804
.................George Kiess (wrote diary), from Wurtembeg, 1804
.................(towns in Wurtemberg: Moehringen & Eszlingen)
.................(John George Waltz was father of William Waltz who m. Mary Hurr)

Mathes
............Lucinda Doak Mathes (1806-1844)
.......................Alexander (I) Mathes (1740, VA - 1806, TN)
.......................m. Isabella Ord (dau of Robert Ord and Ann Leith)
................................Alexander Mathews (bc.1700), from Northern Ireland 1708

McNees
............Dr. George Allen Gernade McNees (1804-1844),
............m. Lucinda Doak Mathes (1806-1875)
.......................Joab Webster McNees (b. So. Carolina; parents from Scotland)
.......................m. Sarah McCollum

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