Great information John!
Thank you so much for sharing your research with us! Although most of these names are a 'disconnect' to the family tree that I have, it is good to record this information in the event that we can some day connect them to our family tree.
I'm learning every day as I read your emails (and others as well).
Harlan M. Zeinstra
Raph descendent
John,
then there is the "Rappe" story and believe it or not, I do have one tax
receipt for Scott county Mississippi where it is actually spelled as Rappe and has
nothing to do with the story at all -seemingly coincidental -guess the person
that wrote it couldn't possibly believe it could be spelled like he heard it-
Hah!
Rhonda Raye
Linda, Thanks for the explanation. It did seem that
they were on the right track or at least the
documentation all seemed to be in order etc. but
somehow it did not seem right to me. So I kept hoping
they would find something that would explain but then
I just received a kind of short e-mail suddenly which
really did not explain much of anything except that it
sounded that they had lost interest. Since I seem to
run into this quite often even with people who are
definately known to be kin, it just seemed li
does anyone happen to know if the surname Raye with that spelling also comes
from any other known sources besides us Rapes changing to Raye. I know there
are other Rayes here in GA besides my family but earlier this week my Mom got a
phone call from somebody looking for his Georgia Rayes. One he was searching
for was a Donald Raye. Mom not caring that much for all my babbling on this
subject does however remember once meeting Donald Rape/Rapp and told the guy
she thought Donald had been dead for year
Sorry Harlan,
No that is not right.
For a moment forget which of these men pertain to
which branch of the family. Starting in the time of
the late 1500s there were three men of the Reeb name
living in the town of Herbitzheim. These men were
named Heinrich, Jacob & Nicolaus. Civil (Notary)
documents refer to the men Jacob & Nicolaus as
brothers however we have no document to state
specifically the relation of Jacob & Nicolaus to
Heinrich. Now since I will be referring to some others
of the same names I w
I have not checked the list of the present subscribers
to the GUS-REEB-L@rootsweb.com (list) recently so I am
not exactly who is still on the list. However, I want
to thank those of you who are here and to tell you
that I appreciate your participation and espiecially
the messages and responses to the posts of others. I
am not certain whether Harlan is back with us or not
but I am hoping he is and if not I am hoping he will
return soon. A few weeks ago I had noticed an
unsubscription to the list from Harlan
Come to think of it, I have also heard some say that
their name Rene was not pronounced as "Renn-Nay" and I
sort of think this may be the great American spirit of
independance stemming back to the time of our American
Revolution when Americans yearned for complete freedom
not just for themselves but from any and everything
that reminded them that we, our government, economy
and even our culture was too dependant upon Europe.
Afterall, Rene' sounds very French and while France
did send Lafayette to help us g
Harlan,
Thanks for the alert. I was in error and had looked at
the spouses date and entered it for both, sorry about
my mistake. The correct date of birth was 6 Jan 1862
for August Reeb and the correct date for Mary
Elizabeth Gaster was 14 May 1874. Their marriage date
was 8 March 1899. August was son of Joseph Reeb and
Barbara Crontz (this is the spelling of her maiden
name in the marriage record, however, I am not certain
this is the correct spelling. Just for informational
purposes this Joseph Reeb was
Very interesting! If I read this correctly, the father of our Heinrich Reeb (baptized in 1599) was Jacob Reeb? And this Jacob had both our Heinrich and this Michael? If this is true, then I've just been made aware of another generation of my family tree that I didn't know about!
Harlan
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> Harlan,
>
> As for Anton Gartner, I do not have a record. However,
> although I have no documentation for him, I suspect
> that he may have been related to another b
John,
I know there is a way to find various symbols in the computer such as "greek"
letters etc. but since I haven't needed them I haven't tried to find them. I
did find out when transcribing Jacob Nathaniel Rape's letters though that
there is no symbol on the computer keyboard for "cents" (as in $ and "cents") like
there was on typewriters.
Not all names have lost their extra symbols as in the various forms of Rene'
(mine), Renee, Renae etc. although unless your keyboard is set up to slant the
acce
No, no, no ... I think I now understand. Our Heinrich (b 1599) was a brother to jacob (b 1604). I'm a bit slow tonight .... hope I got this correct this time.
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> Harlan,
>
> As for Anton Gartner, I do not have a record. However,
> although I have no documentation for him, I suspect
> that he may have been related to another branch of
> Werner Reeb's Ameircan cousins, that would be the St.
> Clair County, Illinois Reebs. My only clue, however,
> is th
Harlan,
I want to inform you that it is people like you who
respond to these posts which encourages me and
probably others, who like to share information with
others, to continue the sharing. I understand that
many if not most of the subscribers to the Gus-Reeb
list may not recognize the Reebs who have lived in
Columbus, Ohio area (Franklin County) as they are not
descendants of Gustavus Reeb, the father of Peter,
Gustavus, Nicolaus, and Michael who emigrated from
Pisdorf to Pennsylvania in the 1750s, the
Hi John,
"Linda, please let me know about the two ladies who we
did hear from, whether you think they are Rape
descendants or not.
John V."
Thank you very much for your reply---you are very kind and so generous
with your information.
To answer your above question, the two ladies were Emily Osborn and
Dotty Lay (sisters). When I contacted the Christian County
Genealogical Society looking for information on my William Lincoln
Angel, Rosella Brookens sent me copies of letters, documents, etc.
from t
Dear Group,
I want to thank John V. Reeb for inviting me to join this group. Also,
thanks to all of you who have welcomed me to it. John and I have been comparing
notes about the Reebs in Alsace and have made an interesting time of it.
To start, I have to say that I am not descended from any Reebs who came to
America so all my research has been related to those in Alsace. Their
descendants married into the Muller (Miller) family of Herbitzheim, and my ancestors,
the Millers, came to America in 182
No, I am sorry if I did not tell it right. We have
found no document to precisely state a relationship
between our early Heinrich Reeb (by this I mean we the
descendants of Gustavus Reeb...in other words Peter,
Gustavus (younger), Michael (Harlan's direct line
immigrant ancestor) and others. What we know is that
when Jacob's son Heinrich was baptized (infant) in
Herbitzheim (village about 3 to 6 miles north of
Keskastel) our Heinrich Reeb's wife was the godmother.
Jacob's wife then had a daughter in 1602 na
I may have posted my welcome of Ron to the the list
just a little too soon, so perhaps I should explain.
Ron and I have been communicating via e-mail for a few
months. Not sure, but I think that Ron may have found
some of my posts on the internet about Reeb family
genealogy. Although, naturally Ron is interested in
the genealolgy but more importantly our conversations
have mostly been about the earlier family histories in
that area which is in modern days known as the western
portion of the department (si
Harlan,
As for Anton Gartner, I do not have a record. However,
although I have no documentation for him, I suspect
that he may have been related to another branch of
Werner Reeb's Ameircan cousins, that would be the St.
Clair County, Illinois Reebs. My only clue, however,
is that I do see the name Gartner or Gaertner in my
files on St. Clair County, Illinois Reebs. I will
check further into this and let you know if I find
anything.
Joseph W. Hodel was son of John Hodel and Elisa Reeb
and was born in Fount
John,
thank you for the bit about German naming customs that was interesting about
baptismal names and what they were actually called. Know of any good books on
the subject of German naming practices and also how their surnames came about?
Rhonda
During the years I have been actively involved in the
genealogy of my Rape ancestry. and which later became
known as my Reeb ancestry, I have always strived to
seek out the truth and correct genealogy pertaining to
our family history. At some time during the year of
1979 a cousin (now deceased) of my father told me
about a retired lawyer in Dallas, Texas who had been
actively researching the genealogy of our own Rape
family. After I expressed interest in the research of
this retired Dallas lawyer, my father
REEB-ROOTS-L@rootsweb-com is the URL for the
Reeb-Roots list. If you are not already subscribed to
that list type in REEB-ROOTS-L-subscribe@rootswebcom
and then type in the word "subscribe" in both the
subject line and in the body of the e-mail without the
parenthesis of course. Do not type any other words
except subscribe as the e-mail goes to a computer
which UNLIKE US HUMANS get confused. John V. Reeb
--- Rstarthistle@wmconnect.com wrote:
> Would you post the URL?
>
>
> In a message dated 10/3/
this prefix or title is the first name of each male Reeb through the late
1700's .( I am looking at the Reeb family chart or tree) given to me by
Juanita Rape when I first started discussing geneology with her. John V.Reeb's
name is on a little square with his address of Ca. so I would assume it was
distributed by you John. The first name that doesn't have "Johann" as its
prefix was when the spelling changed to Rape so John Francis Rape (son of Johann
Peter Reeb) was the first to drop the
Please welcome Ron F. Miller to the Gus-Reeb e-mail
list. I have recently posted about my having made
contact with Ron a few months ago. Ron is a descendant
of Agnes REEB, daughter of Heinrich REEB. This is the
younger of two early Heinrich Reebs who we had up to
about five years ago carried an approximate birth year
of 1602 based upon his age given in the record of his
death, however, I came to believe that he was indeed
the same Heinrich REEB who was baptized in 1599 in
Herbitzheim, and at which baptism o
Rhonda,
Yes, I agree with you and I too have had more than one
experience with Americans who do not believe it
possible that a name could be Rape. Funny thing is
they are still wrong even if our own name was not
originally Rape. I sometimes wished that I had a copy
or even a photocopy of the page in Rietstaps Armorial
General which is a very old publication wherein they
listed the many Coats of Arms. Not only does one find
RAPPE there but also one will see three different
descriptions for coats of arms for
Linda, Well I am surprized to hear from you and in the
past few days I was reminded about your branch of the
family as recently I am hearing from a lady in Texas
who is not a Reeb/Rape but her aunt by marriage was
recently widowed and this lady is very much into
genealogy so she is trying to learn as much as
possible. In her case, the aunt is a descendant of
John Rape the son of Gustavus who Early Settlers of
Sangamon and even his age at time of death indicates
he was born 1794 and in SC. Her link to him is