1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Bill Moyer, Britzius File I.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Bill Moyer, Britzius File I.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Bill Moyer. "From: BMoyer Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:53:39 EST Subject: Re: Britzius family To: diannestevens X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 113
Dianne, when I first went to Germany looking for ancestors of Sue's, the
church records in Speyer were open just a day or two. I found a card with very
faint writing that i thought said Matheis Britzius came from "karnten" which I
took to be maybe Carinthia. My daughter and I even drove down there and looked
through phone books. I thought "ktern" might be another interpretation,
meaning from Kaiserslautern. Later someone discovered he was from Soetern, a town
between Waldgrehweiler/Bisterschied and Trier. A souterrain in French is a
tunnel, and the town has deep tunnels underneath it though noboby now knows
why. My present theory is that the family descended from a Roman soldier who
retired in Trier. There is a rock I learned about in geology class called
"brescia'" that is mottled and I think igneous--anyway, an old type rock mountains
are made of. It's found in northern Italy in a place called Brescia, which in
turn is named for an ancient tribe called the Brescii. The first notes I
found for Britzius families said they came from Bjern or Beiern, which I finally
realized meant "Bayern", the German word for Bavaria The old "y" was a
strange letter written kind of like a "j" with a dot, or just an "i." Finally
someone sent me a copy of a family bible page that named Bisterschied. That led to
lots of information stored in Rockenhausen and other places."
1Bill Moyer, Britzius File I, received via USPS 24 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.