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The Hickengrund is made up of four villages [[Niederdresselndorf, Germany|Niederdresselndorf]], [[Oberdresselndorf, Germany|Oberdresselndorf]], Lützeln, and Holzhausen. | The Hickengrund is made up of four villages [[Niederdresselndorf, Germany|Niederdresselndorf]], [[Oberdresselndorf, Germany|Oberdresselndorf]], Lützeln, and Holzhausen. Today these villages are in the municipality of [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Amt_Burbach Burbach] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegen-Wittgenstein Siegen-Wittgenstein] district, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia], [[Germany Genealogy|Germany]]. | ||
Detlev Kretzer has an excellent website [http://www.hickengrund.de/ www.hickengrund.de] written in German about this area. | Detlev Kretzer has an excellent website [http://www.hickengrund.de/ www.hickengrund.de] written in German about this area. His informative copyright website contains information on the history, genealogy and dialect of the area.<br> | ||
The German Wikipedia also has a short article about the area: | The German Wikipedia also has a short article about the area: [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickengrund Hickengrund].<br> | ||
=== Church Records<br> === | === Church Records<br> === | ||
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This area provided immigrants to the British colonies in North America, some of whom are listed in the following books:<br> | This area provided immigrants to the British colonies in North America, some of whom are listed in the following books:<br> | ||
Gerber, Adolf. ''The Emigration from Nassau-Dillenburg to America in the Eighteenth Century | Gerber, Adolf. ''The Emigration from Nassau-Dillenburg to America in the Eighteenth Century : The Conduct of the Governments Towards It and The Ensuing Fates Of The Emigrants''. Translated by Lissy L. Weirich. Privately published, 1984. | ||
<br>Goebel, Julius. [http://books.google.com/books/about/Briefe_deutscher_Auswanderer_aus_dem_Jah.html?id=Xv0qAAAAYAAJ ''Briefe Deutscher Auswanderer aus dem Jahre 1709'']. Illinois: Nachdruck aus dem Jahrbuch der Deutsch-amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois, 1912.<br> | <br>Goebel, Julius. [http://books.google.com/books/about/Briefe_deutscher_Auswanderer_aus_dem_Jah.html?id=Xv0qAAAAYAAJ ''Briefe Deutscher Auswanderer aus dem Jahre 1709'']. Illinois: Nachdruck aus dem Jahrbuch der Deutsch-amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois, 1912.<br> | ||
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