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From: Jim Eggert x6127 <>
Subject: Re: 1822 City in Sachsen-Meiningen
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 02:08:38 GMT
In-Reply-To: bauerjw@ios.com's message of 1 Aug 1996 01:34:11 GMT


In article <4tp1ij$> ({...................}) writes:
> I found my ggg grandfather's naturalization records. He was born in 1822
> in Sachsen-meiningen. I can not read the city name because of poor
> penmanship. I see that the ruler of the land is listed as "the grand
> Duke of Saxony, Barnard". Here is a guess at what some of the letters in
> the city name matay be: ?ar?s ?eheom> Here is another guess at the
> letters: ?arts zehdom

Could part of it read Herzogtum or Herzogthum? Sachsen-Meiningen was
a duchy, which is what the German word Herzogtum means. The extra h
would be in the then-current spelling.

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=Jim Eggert

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