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The Hickengrund is made up of four villages Niederdresselndorf, Oberdresselndorf, Lützeln, and Holzhausen. Today these villages are in the municipality of 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|Germany]]. | The Hickengrund is made up of four villages Niederdresselndorf, 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|Germany]]. | ||
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> | |||
Detlev Kretzer has an excellent website [http://www.hickengrund.de/ www.hickengrund.de] written in German about this area. His informative website contains information on the history, genealogy and dialect of the area.<br> | |||
The German Wikipedia also has a short article about the area: [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickengrund Hickengrund].<br> | The German Wikipedia also has a short article about the area: [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickengrund Hickengrund].<br> | ||
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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. | 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> | ||
=== Ortsfamilienbuch <br> === | === Ortsfamilienbuch <br> === | ||
[http://www.online-ofb.de/hickengrund/?lang=de Ortsfamilienbuch Hickengrund] a very important resource, a "local family book" of the people with their vital statistics who have lived in the Hickengrund since the 16th century.<br><br> | [http://www.online-ofb.de/hickengrund/?lang=de Ortsfamilienbuch Hickengrund] a very important resource, a "local family book" of the people with their vital statistics who have lived in the Hickengrund since the 16th century.<br><br> | ||