From the Siegerland to Germanna

Preface by Horst Schmidt-Böcking 7 Preface by Joachim Frank 13 Introduction 17 The lay of the Siegerland: Siegen and Trupbach 19 Trupbach¿a short historical review 27 History of iron mining in the Siegerland and Trupbach 33 Charcoal production and the ¿Haubergswirtschaft` 45 The importance of farming 53 An `Amicable Donation¿¿ Historical background of the 1714 emigration 63 Emigration in 1712 and final settlement in 1714 71 The Trupbach emigrants¿family trees 75 The Trupbach emigrants¿birth houses 79 The New Contact between Germanna and the Siegerland 95 Famous descendents of the Siegerland/Trupbach emigrants 97 Acknowledgments 107 References and Remarks 108 Appendix I: The 1989 Siegener Zeitung article 112 Appendix II: Encounter in an airplane 117 Appendix III: Ancestry research on the American side by Benjamin Clark Holtzclaw, Jr. 123 Appendix IV: Ancestry research on the American side by William Irvin Utterback 127 Appendix V: On the origin of the Otterbach family 133 Appendix VI: Family trees of the emigrant relatives in the Siegerland 136 Johannes Otterbach 136 Hans Holtzklau 149 Johann Kemper 166 Johannes Fischbach 182 Christoffel Richter 200 Henrich Spielmann 214 Johannes Brombach 230 Hans Merten 244 The Authors 244