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From: "Thomas Fiske" <>
Subject: Re: Scheidt... was Re: [KYJEFFER] New but old
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 18:32:15 -0800
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Dear Patrick,

That's amazing. It may have been this family which cause my ggm to come to
the Louisville area. You know, people wrote back and said, "The streets are
paved with gold, etc." It happened to other Bavarians. My ggm arrived in
1865, she said, on a census form.

Tom the bewildered

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Hays" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:38 AM
Subject: Scheidt... was Re: [KYJEFFER] New but old


> There is also a Scheidt family history, which is available at the New
> Albany-Floyd County Public Library Indiana Room. There were many Scheidts
> in Indiana, including some that married some of my relatives... but not
> many. I don't have much on them.
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John & Michele Simmons" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [KYJEFFER] New but old
>
>
> > Database: Kentucky 1910 Miracode Index
> > Combined Matches: 2
> >
> >
> > Edward Scheidt
> > Enumeration District: 0039 Color: W
> > Age: 17 Birth Place: Kentucky
> > Visit: 0091
> > County: Fayette
> > Relation: INMA
> > Relatives: Husband Edward H Dovak (W)
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > ----
> >
> > John N Scheidt
> > Enumeration District: 0144 Color: W
> > Age: 69 Birth Place: Germany
> > Visit: 0153
> > County: Pendleton
> > Relation: Husband
> > Relatives: Daughter Margret 31, Kentucky
> > Daughter Gertrude 17, Kentucky
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > ----
> >
> >
> >
> > Viewing records 1-2
> > =============================
> > Database: Kentucky Census, 1810-90
> > Combined Matches: 1
> >
> >
> > Year Surname Given Name (s) County State Page Township or Other Info
> Record
> > Type Database ID#
> > 1890 SCHEIDT NICKLES Pendleton County KY 162 Short Creek Precinct KY
> 1890
> > Veterans Schedule KY16014010
> > =======================
> > Database: Louisville, Kentucky Directories, 1890
> > Combined Matches: 2
> >
> >
> >
> > Name Business Name Occupation Location 1 Location 2 City State Year
> > Henry J. Scheidt B. F. Avery & Sons floorboss 1822 Baird KY
> > William Scheidt P. W. Carle clerk 420 6th KY
> >
> > ============================
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Thomas Fiske <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 10:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: [KYJEFFER] New but old
> >
> >
> > > Dear Mary and Listers,
> > >
> > > I seem to recall in the dark dim past some Winklers in Louisville,
> > pre-1957.
> > > But I do not remember why. My Germans were Paul, Sebastian and
> Scheidt.
> > > Not the English Sebastians, who were already in KY a hundred years
> before,
> > > but the Bavarian ones who got off the boat about 1856 or so. They
swam,
> > of
> > > course. There is no record of them on any ship list.
> > >
> > > Believe it or not, I have never been to the L.A. library, but I have
> > > corresponded with the librarians. They have a copy of a 1904
genealogy
> of
> > > the Grover family, who lived in Owen and Scott counties in KY. A.P.
> > Grover
> > > was once the US Congressman for the Louisville District. The L.A.
> > > librarians have no idea how long they have had the genealogy or how
they
> > got
> > > their hands on it.
> > >
> > > My concerns are more mundane, such as where to park once I am
downtown.
> > >
> > > Tom the bewildered.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mary Davis" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:14 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [KYJEFFER] New but old
> > >
> > >
> > > > I also live in L. A. County CA (part time only). At the moment I am
> at
> > my
> > > > Birmingham, AL address. I am researching in Jefferson County, KY
for
> my
> > > > husband's roots - a family by the name of Winkler. This was his
> > > > grandmother's name. They were German. Most of the things I have
> > studied
> > > in
> > > > Louisville are census records and in L.A. you can find City
> Directories
> > > for
> > > > Louisville at the L.A. Library. They have a great genealogical
> > > department.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Thomas Fiske" <>
> > > > To: <>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 6:45 PM
> > > > Subject: [KYJEFFER] New but old
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Dear Listers,
> > > > >
> > > > > Just a few minutes ago I leaned there was a Jefferson Co. list. I
> was
> > > > born
> > > > > in Jefferson County, but moved away years ago and now live in L.A.
> > Co.,
> > > > CA.
> > > > >
> > > > > On my father's side I am related to several German families that
> > landed
> > > in
> > > > > Louisville. I have been trying to trace them with little success
> due
> > in
> > > > > part to the flood of 1937-38 which wiped out a lot of courthouse
> > > records.
> > > > >
> > > > > On my mother's side I am related to a pack of Virginia people who
> > seeped
> > > > > across the Cumberland Gap into Owen, Scott, Woodford, Henry and
> other
> > > > > counties before ending up in Jefferson.
> > > > >
> > > > > As a graduate of Louisville Male High, I am qualified to do many
> > things,
> > > > but
> > > > > nowadays I mostly write genealogy articles and historical fiction
> > novels
> > > > > that take place in Kentucky.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am mainly interested in knowing which immigrant records were NOT
> > wiped
> > > > out
> > > > > by the 1937 or any other flood.
> > > > >
> > > > > Tom Fiske
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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