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LATEST NEWS - Last Updated - 05 January, 2007 07:41
Check here every time you visit (and don't forget to REFRESH)


Family Crest Kevin Kosbab (Michigan) - Go Here

New Book for Sale 
South West (England) Family Histories
- Go Here

H or O for Odgers - Go Here

Correspondence Page - Updated - Go Here


Prior to Last Update...

New web site format and page finder... Go Here

Requests for information... Go Here

Searching for Kosbab Late One Night... Go Here (good story)

Millennium Time Capsule Project.. Go Here

Our Wedding - Lucy and Brian... Here (On our Ripefruit website)

Check out all the entries at the Forum... Go Here

E-mail from Jessie (Kusibab) O'Brien... Go Here

E-Mail from Carol Haley Re: Hodgers, Odgers, Vincent... Go Here

New Odgers Family Tree... Go Here

Just in case you missed it on the first page, we have started a Discussion Group talking about the origins of the surname - Kosbab, Kusibab, Kosbau, Kosbar?... Discussion Forum

Go on... Come and chat with a real life Kosbab... Go Here

The craziest reference to a Kosbab that you will ever see... No, it's not me !

The craziest thing you will ever see on the internet... Tossing Cows

Alternate map of old Europe.... Go Here

Joke of the Month... Go Here

It seems everyone wants to know what I like... Are they in for a shock !
Photograph - Click Here
Video - Click Here (next month)

Hoenick / Hoenicke / Hoenecke News... Go here

Is it Hodges or Hodgers... Go Here

What to do with LDS Microfilm Numbers

More regarding the surname Kusibab... Go here

Useless Kosbab Information... Go here

E-Mail from Knut Kosbab Re: Albert Heinrich Carl Kosbab

Improved Kosbab Email address request form (that works!)... Go Here

Kuisbab... Email from Jessie... Go here

Go here

The Origin of the Kosbab surname... Go here

Check out the new surnames in the Family Tree... New Tree Uploaded 8-1-2000

Harold Karl Kosbab and Flora Rella Broehm... Go here

Frederick Paul Kosbab... Go here

Bartz - New Additions... Go here

Some exciting Hunchen News... Go Here

Yahoo Listing finally... Go Here

Get your own Kosbab Email address for free... Go Here

Rosser Web Site for all details of the surname... Go Here

About this web site and the new Kosbab Family Tree... Go Here

Miss Hedwig Kosbab is famous... Go Here (another web site)

Westlake Web Site found... Go Here

Document 13-5-1876 enlarged... Go Here

New Rosser entries.. Go Here

Ever tried sending an email to Bruce Kosbab... Go Here

The best search tool you will find... Go Here

Updated Listing from Family Search... Go to Kosbab Special

A very special birthday celebration... Go to Florrie Fazackerly

Very interesting Kosbab news from America... Go to Kosbab

Genealogy Research Centre... Go to Research Centre

Wendy Irene Kosbab - Born 9th October 1958 Passed Away 23rd November 1999

Kosbab Link Site... Go to Links

Translation of Abschrift (marriage) documents... Go to Documents

New branch of the Kosbab Family Tree... Go to Kosbab (Gerd) also in Family Tree

Female Kosbab's Legs... Go to Australia

A listing of all towns in Stolp... Go to Germany Listings

The new Kosbab Family Tree... Go to England

Kosbab Leonard & Kenneth Family Tree Information (incorporated into Family Tree)

Kosbab William Henry Photographs...... Go to Photographs

Westlake Maud Mary Photograph.... Go to Photographs

Our new Kosbab Coat Of Web Site Arms.. Go to England

Updates and additions 19-11-99

Kosbau.. Why include Kosbau... Go to Kosbab

Census 1881 Great Britain... Go to Documents Go to Kosbab

Marriage Certificate Albert Kosbab (German) Go to Documents Go to Kosbab

The 1871 Cornwall Census... Go to Origins United Kingdom

Found in Kindred Konnections... Go to Names Kosbab

Kosbab Adlina... Go to Names Kosbab

New Photographs... Go to Photographs General

Yahoo People Search.... Go to Links Yahoo

Authentic Kosbab Coffee Mugs... Go to Hmmmmmmmm

New German Origin research information... Go to Germany

The Kosbab coat of arms? Go to Documents

Family Scrolls.... Westlake, Rosser, Vincent ... Names  

Looking for Kosbab... Go to Names Kosbab

The stamp - Charles 7th Go to Documents

Map from Gerd of Hinter Pommern... go to Maps

EMail from Gerd Kosbab

Short Service Record from Charlie Kosbab... Go to Short Service Record


H or O for Odgers

Hi Brian, 

Back again, have finally collated information I gleaned from IGI, plus Jeanne Vincent of USA. Jeanne's husband is the great great grandson Charles John Vincent ( Sidwell's brother) his son Philip was Jeanne's husbands great grandfather, she didn't tell me her husbands's father's or her husband's names.

If you look through the list of Charles John Vincent's children, you will see that he and his wife appear to have included certain second names.  William gets ARTHUR,  Henry gets JENKIN - is this because they are using second names as a way of recording family surnames.  They also name one child Philip.  If James Vincent and Sidwell Arthur are our John's parents, then James' father was PHILIP Vincent Jnr.  From Charles' children's names I think we could be on a winner.  Could the other names be for Mary Ann Odgers Family - There are an awful lot of Odgers down there in Budock.  I reckon John Vincent probably had a finger in changing a, maybe mistakenly believed, dropped H! 

All that said, until I find the marriage between Mary Ann (H)Odgers and John Vincent, and or both their death certificates, we cannot prove a ruddy thing.  But isn't that the joy of genealogy.

Carol 

Editor Note:  The new tree mentioned here can be viewed in the Family Tree section - Go Here

 

 

Book for Sale (tell them we sent you!)

South West (England) Family Histories / Stuart Raymond

This 128 page book attempts to list all the published family histories and pedigrees relating to families from the South West, i.e. Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire. A tremendous amount of research has been published; I have not counted the number of families mentioned, but it must be well over 2,000. Published by the Federation of Family History Societies in association with SA & MJ Raymond. Price £8.10.(including postage) Overseas (airmail) £10.00; $US17.50. Email orders welcomed. Books will be sent airmail for payment on receipt. Payment accepted in Sterling, U.S. dollars or Australian dollars, preferably by personal cheque. Please inquire for Australian dollar and surface prices.

Stuart Raymond, Genealogical Bibliographer, Publisher & Bookseller P.O.Box 35, Exeter, EX1 3YZ, U.K. stuart@samjraymond.softnet.co.uk  Ph. (01392) 252193 Visit http://www.soft.net.uk/samjraymond/igb.htm for British genealogical books.


Kosbab Family Crest

We were asked by Kevin Kosbab (Michigan) if he could the family crest.  The answer was yes, but it is not a Kosbab family crest but the crest of the area where we believe we are from.

Unfortunately the email address Kevin used is not working, so Kevin please contact me again.


New web site format.

One of the comments I regularly receive is... 'Good Site but I found difficult to navigate' so, I have embarked on a new layout that hopefully will make it easier for everyone to get around.  The navigation at the bottom of each page has been reduced and I have introduced an INDEX page, with descriptions of the contents of each page.

I hope you all like it!


Searching for Kosbab late one night!

I can remember (not that long ago) when you could type in the name Kosbab and not get anything.  Tonight I typed the name into an old source and was surprised (shocked) to see this:

MetaSearch

Surname Helper has 17 matches for surname KOSBAB
Obit Times has 6 matches for kosbab[6]
SSDI has 86 matches
RSL has 3 surname entries matching kosbab
WorldConnect has 15 matches for Surname: kosbab
GenSeeker has 1 matches for words kosbab
USGenWeb Archives has 2 matches for words kosbab

And so should you !  There is a little surpirse soon !


Surname Information Request

Every week we receive enquiries from people interested in Surnames & Places that appear in our family tree.  We respond by extracting the details of the surname requested plus the closest direct ancestors and descendents and sending a gedcom file containing the information. 

Since the last update the following names have been queried:

  • Rivne/Rovno/Rowno (towns)

  • Rohla

  • Engelhardts

  • Endris

  • Popay/Popey

  • Bogenrieff

  • Goeden

  • Trent

In addition to this list there were a few enquiries passed onto Carol Haley in relation to Westlake and Gerd Kosbab relating to German requests for Kosbab.

If you would like information related to our Family Tree... Go Here

If you would like to be informed of Updates to this site... Go Here

Millennium Time Capsule Project

The Family History Archive is a unique opportunity for people with an interest in family history to ensure that their descendants in 2201 can trace their family line. 

Of course we have submitted The Kosbab Family Tree for inclusion.

Further details can be found at http://www.millennium-timecapsule.com/history/

E-Mail from Carol Haley

Back again, have finally collated information I gleaned from IGI, plus Jeanne Vincent of USA. Jeanne's husband is the great great grandson Charles John Vincent ( Sidwell's brother) his son Philip was Jeanne's husbands great grandfather, she didn't tell me her husbands's father's or her husband's names.

 
If you look through the list of Charles John Vincent's children, you will see that he and his wife appear to have included certain second names.  William gets ARTHUR,  Henry gets JENKIN - is this because they are using second names as a way of recording family surnames.  They also name one child Philip.  If James Vincent and Sidwell Arthur are our John's parents, then James' father was PHILIP Vincent Jnr.  From Charles' children's names I think we could be on a winner.  Could the other names be for Mary Ann Odgers Family - There are an awful lot of Odgers down there in Budock.  I reckon John Vincent probably had a finger in changing a, maybe mistakenly believed, dropped H! 
 
All that said, until I find the marriage between Mary Ann (H)Odgers and John Vincent, and or both their death certificates, we cannot prove a ruddy thing.  But isn't that the joy of genealogy.

Notes: 
I have added the attached ftw file into the Kosbab Family Tree...
I have also created a special Odgers Tree for easy on-line viewing.


Talk with Me...

As a web designer I am always looking for ways that will increase traffic, but most importantly... make us laugh !  I have installed the following software on one of my biggest accounts to see how it goes... the personal touch ! 

Simple enough.. Click on the link and chat with me (on-line live) if I happen to be online.  Go to the bottom of this (or any) page and click on the Chat to me LINK...

Joke of the Month

Everything comes in phases seems to be the way of this world.  At the moment it's Jokes by E-Mail.  Not a day goes by when another e-mail arrives sporting a new joke, so I have decided to include a 'JOKE OF THE MONTH' section into our web site.

To kick off our new millennium Joke of the Month page is one from Jessie O'Brien


KUSIBAB

Originally found this in Guest book..

Name: Jessie Kusibab O'Brien
Country: USA Date: Wed Jan 5 12:47:17 2000
Comments: I have found errors in microfilm where Kusibab was mispelled and spelled Kosbab instead..Thought I'd share this with you....

Then recieved...

Microfilm 1960619 Sepnica, Poland 1786-1908 Kusibab and there is Kosbab
Microfilm 1960620 Marriages-Sepnica, Poland
Microfilm 0937400 Births, Marriages - Debica, Poland
also run Kusibab through Yahoo.....with unknown state.you will be surprised! also run Kosbab through Yahoo and see what you get........

Jessie Kusibab O'Brien Roseville, MI


Frederick Paul Kosbab

My name is Bruce Anthony Kosbab and I currently live in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
(a suburb of Milwaukee). I came across your site and it interested me. My
grandparents were Aggie and Frederick Paul Kosbab. My father, Fritz Paul
Kosbab, had mentioned that they had come from Pommern. My father was born in
Bonduel, Wisconsin and had 3 brothers (Bill, Rudolph, and Julius) and 3
sisters (Emma, Minnie, and Martha). Bill lived in Green Bay, but passed away
some years ago. Julius stayed in Bonduel and passed away about 15 years ago.
Rudolph and the sisters lived in Milwaukee. Rudolph and Minnie are the only
ones still living. My father was born June 22, 1912 and passed away March 13,
1991. He retired in Milwaukee in 1976 and moved to Shawano, Wisconsin where
he sent his last years. If you have any more questions please e-mail me at
the following address:

bkosbab@bigfoot.com

P.S. I was born to Fritz and Charlotte Kosbab in Milwaukee on January 20,
1953.


Bartz

BARTZ,Anna H. 1866 1939/W SOMMERFELDT,August
BARTZ,Carl est 1837 /W STRICKER,Augusta

KOSBAB 1930 alive/M GEHRMANN
KOSBAB,Harold est 1902 /M BROEHM,Flora (more information)

Source

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Harold Karl Kosbab and Flora Rella Broehm

For your information.  Harold Karl Kosbab (10/21/01) and Flora Rella Broehm
(10/16/08) (both deceased) were married on 09/22/1927.  They had two
children, my mother, Marion Anna Kosbab (04/16/28-10/01/84) and my uncle
Donald Kosbab (still living).  I don't know much about the Broehms - I know
that quite a few of Floras siblings lived in the Appleton, WI area. I only
recall Elden Broehm and Butch Broehm, although I remember as a child going
to see grandma's brothers and sisters who lived on farms in Outagamie Co. 

Source: Bruce Witthuhn <bawitt@ix.netcom.com>

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Hunchen, Louise  (31st December 1999)

Until recently we believed her maiden name to be Hinchen, but that was altered to Hunchen (courtesy of Charlie Kosbab).  Now Carol Haley (isn't she amazing) has located the following information which does tie in very neatly regarding age and a place for our great great grand mother...

HUENCHEN & HOENECKE FAMILIES

Christian Danial HUENCHEN + Luisa Henrietta FROMHOLTS =
Friedrick August HUENCHEN
Carl August HOENECKE + Christiane Caroline GOETZE =
Christiane Wilhelmine HOENECKE

Children of Friedrick & Christiane:

Carl August HOENECKE1 (HUENCHEN?) Ch 13/7/1845 (3)
August Rudolph HUENCHEN Ch 5/12/1852 (1)
Otto Theodor HUENCHEN Ch 28/8/1856 (1)
Otto Gustav HUENCHEN Ch 25/12/1860 (1)
Louise Auguste HUENCHEN Ch 2/5/1858 (1)

I believe we can all see there is some creditable association for searching further.  I spent the afternoon searching using the 4 new variations (Huenchen, Fromholts, Hoenecke and Goetze). 
Carl August HOENECKE Sex: M
Event(s): Christening: 13 Jul 1845 Dorotheen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
Parents: Father: Friedrich August HUENCHEN Mother:

Batch number: Dates Source Call No. Type Printout Call No. Type
C999052 1842-1848 0070235 Film 1180434 Film =
Kirchenbuch, 1677-1937 Evangelische Kirche. Dorotheenstädtische Kirche Berlin

C999052 1848-1854 0070236 Film NONE
C999052 1854-1861 0070237 Film NONE
C999052 1861-1867 0070238 Film NONE

It does present us with...
Why does Carl take his mothers surname? Possible married twice!
The mothers name differs between the two sources...
Christian Wilhelmine GOETZE
Christiane Wilhelmine HOENECKE

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Found at OurAncestry.com

Hoenecke, Carl 1870-1879 TX CD319 Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1870 (#319)

Hoenecke, Carl H. 1538-1940 United States CD354 Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1538-1940 (#354)

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Kosbab Email Service...

We have been experiencing problems with the submission form which does not always work.  If this happens it does not issue a confirmation.  If you have already applied and not received advice by email please re-submit by e-mail.

With our new domain we are able to offer you (free) an address like...

E-Mails sent to your new Kosbab address are either re-directed to your existing email address or they can be downloaded from our web site (private)... and remember the service is totally free!

To take advantage of our E-Mail Service... Go Here


New Kosbab Family Tree

The major change you will see over the next few weeks will be our new... searchable Kosbab Family Tree with (believe it or not) 6,580 Individuals, 3,740 Families all associated with the Kosbab name.

I have merged all the Kosbab GEDCOM files and converted them into web site files that can be viewed directly on our web site.  Regardless of whether they are descendents or ancestors, find the name and then trace their associations up and down at will.

The next step involved transferring all the research information from our web site into these files, so that everything will be contained in one simple (but large) file. If you want to see what has already been transferred Click Here.

Unfortunately, some of the old links on this site will now not work, as I transfer data from the site into the tree, I am moving all the research material to one big (and long page).  So, if a link does not work go to the Kosbab Research Archive page.

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Nah nah nan na nah

Anyone who has searched for the Kosbab name will have found Bruce Kosbab.  Some say that should have been my name (as I was born in Australia) but any way, we have all sent emails to good ol' Bruce without ever receiving a reply.

Well I have... finally!  He, or she, as it was Janice Kosbab who emailed me...  I found they had just registered kosbab.com and it had a connecting email (bingo)

She says that her mother possibly has some Kosbab info, so fingers crossed!

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COPERNIC 2000

I have been asked many times, how is it that I have found things on the internet, that you cannot.  Well I use Copernic which searches all the main search engines at the same time.  It also now searches newsgroups as well. 
For those interested COPERNIC 2000 is available free for download..
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Wendy Irene Kosbab - Born 9th October 1958 Passed Away 22nd November 1999

I would like to thank everyone for their kind words and sympathies. I know the hurt in my heart, so I can only imagine what it is like for my parents, family and Wendy's family 20,000 miles away in Australia.


I hope everyone likes the new look web site.  The old site was loading pages far too slowly and I wanted to incorporate our new Kosbab Coat of Web Page emblem.  All new information will be summarized on this page with a link to it's location.  Information will be classified by whether it relates to a Place of Origin or a Surname.

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Anyone interested in statistics?  Our Web site stats for last week...

Visitors for last week divided per weekday

Sunday (07 November):

85

visitors

Monday (08 November):

21

visitors

Tuesday (09 November):

23

visitors

Wednesday (10 November):

24

visitors

Thursday (11 November):

33

visitors

Friday (12 November):

23

visitors

Saturday (13 November):

43

visitors

Amazing really! (our little Kosbab site being inspected by over 250 visitors in one week!