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From: "Don Watson" <>
Subject: Re: [Ger-Gen] Neabuhr/Niebuhr - but EVERYONE take notice!! Don't delete this!!
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:21:36 -0600
References: <0IE900DNE2LK8J@mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>


Germans are typically very efficient, down to the tiniest detail, although
many of the old registers, filled out in ancient or old script, have not
been modernized or translated. I have some suggestions for the surname you
are interested in.

1) http://members.cox.net/hessen/telephones.htm
2) Just below the access point for the telephone book you'll see a surname
frequency link.
3) http://familysearch.org
4. http://members.cox.net/hessen/table.htm , first names, surname lookup.

That should go a long way in determining the spelling used in the time
period you are interested in. I suspect that Neabuhr (which is pronounced
virtually the same as Niebuhr) is an American effort to spell the original,
which was Niebuhr.

We have a pronunciation table at
http://members.cox.net/hessen/learninggerman.htm

:-)
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew L. Lane" <>
My great-great-grandmother, Carolina Neabuhr, was born in New York in 1859.
I have had a tremendously difficult time locating a record of her birth.
The last name may have been spelled Niebuhr and she may have been born in
1858 or 1860.

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