Re: Annual Family Reunion
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Re: Annual Family Reunion
Darlene Gross 5/28/02
I don't know for sure about different spellings of "Schlotzhauer"--my ancestors came from Philippsthale in Hesse, Germany, and all descendants spell it "Schlotzhauer"--except for those who changed it to "Hauer".There is a family on the east coast that used to spell "Schlotzhauer" but now uses "Shlotzhauer" and I think changed about the time of World War I.We have not established a connection between that family and ours but are satisfied that it exists.My hunch would be that some of the family went to the New World and some maybe to Russia.My ancestor came in l837 in reaction to the upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and arrived via the port of New Orleans.Don't know if this helps or not.Mary.