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own relatives who gave it to us. Rest assured, 99.9 % of the information in this paper is accurate!
Many of the German priests used the Latin spelling for the names recorded, example being, Johannes for Johann, and Josephus for Joseph, etc. Last names were sometimes ?Latinized? where they added ?in? to the name if it was a female - Catharina Hermannin, for Catharina Hermann. When we found a record using the Latin spelling, we used the typical German spelling in our paper to keep things simple, plus no one was ever called ?Josephus,? but simply ?Joseph.? Additionally, we find the same name spelled several ways. This was probably due to many Germans in the early years could not spell their own name, forcing the priest to spell the last names ?phonetically.? We find the name Hausch spelled as House, Houch, etc. Zengerling was spelled as Zangerly, Sengering, etc. For the purpose of this paper, we used what has become the more popular spelling today, or we used the most common spelling of the name at that time. This will keep the confusion to a minimum.
Lastly, in our forty years of researching this family, we have collected many documents to support the information in this paper. We did not find this information on the internet! We used original sources such as bible records, census records, church records, etc. We also have many photos of the people named in this report, especially the first through the third generation born in the United States.
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Jerry D. & Deborah W. Heitzmann
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Diamondhead, MS 39525	Email Address: jerryheitzmann@aol.com
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