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From: "katie angermeyer" <>
Subject: [SW_VA] Germans from Alsace to SW_VA
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 04:12:32 +0000


Eddie, That is so interesting about the links to Alsace. Tell me if you see
any Myers/Moyers/Majors/Mayors in Alsace (any spelling will do). Refresh my
memory. Which of the sects did they belong to? Katie

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>From : "Edgar A. Howard" <>
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Subject : [SW_VA] Germans from Alsace to SW_VA
Date : Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:38:42 -0400

Volks,

The following is an expert opinion on some records I found
in Strassbourg, Germany/France. It was records of a
protestant church, and the earliest dates are circa. 1560.
There is mounting evidence that the Germans that came to
SW VA came in groups, usually religious groups, that had
lived together for generations. -eddie

<< There are two columns, and the first readible word in the left
column is "Sontag". The first words in the second column are
"Johaness Flinner". The names I reacted to were "Margaret Andes"
and "Jobst Schwinfelder", which I take to be a corruption of
Schwenkfelder. I note now that there is a Kegley on the list. The
Andes were the inlaws of Kaspar Fleenor, and the Kegleys are thick
around Lone Star north of Benhams. The Schwenkfelder reference
is to that faith, and underlines that there were Schwenkfelders
associated with the ancestors of the Rich Valley Germans. It is
amazing how many rich valley names are on those Alsace lists.
One of my best friends is a Fraley, and that name and Flinner are
next to each other on those 1656 Strausburg church records. This
underlines two facts:

A) the people in Alsace were of mixed religious backgrounds
B) The families of Rich Valley have been moving in lock step across
the globe for at least 450 years.>>






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