The Petersen Family

[Eva Elisabeth]

(09-05-2014 01:56 AM)Lincoln Wonk Wrote:  Hi Eva,
I understand. Thanks for explaining. It's so good to have your perspective. I hope you can return for the conference in April.
Kathy

Thanks, Kathy! I would love to, and the program sounds so fantastic, but don't know yet if I can.

Here are some statistics to illustrate:

Currently, 64 Pietersens live in Hannover. Hannover has 525.875 inhabitants => 0,012% are Petersens. The distance to the Danish border is 267 km = 165 miles.

To compare:
Hamburg: 721 Petersens, 1,799 million inhab. => 0,04% 145 km = 90 miles dist.,

Kiel: 258 Petersens, 242.041 inhab. => 0,11%, 74 km = 45 miles,

Flensburg: 398 Petersens, 89.357 inhab.=> 0,44%, directly at the Danish border.

Here you can see where the cities are located (FL = Flensburg):
   
(PS: Please apologize that I stick to spelling Hannover with "nn".)

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(09-04-2014 08:49 PM)Lincoln Wonk Wrote:  Getzinger said Anna Klomann Petersen was originally from Hepe Darmstadt, Germany.

Hepe Darmstadt does and didn't exist, obviously this was a misreading. "ss" written in old German or Suetterlin letters easily look like a "p". Here's a key to the font:
http://germantranslationservices.org/ger...erlin-font
So I assume she was from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (in German actually: Hessen - Darmstadt).