Re: John Crimmel, PA early 1800s
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Re: John Crimmel, PA early 1800s
Leann Crimmel 8/22/02
Mike,
I assume that you are from the PA branch of the Crimmels, which my father believes was started by a Hessian mercenary around the time of the Revolutionary War.If my assumption is incorrect, sorry for this e-mail.I am from the OH branch, which started when Johannes Grimmel (it was changed to Crimmel in the USA) came to Ohio in 1852, from Hesse-Darmstadt.As you know, there are no Crimmels in Europe, only the Grimmel or Krimmel name is used.If there is a connection between the PA and OH Crimmel branches, it is probably in what is now Germany.If you or any of your male Crimmel reletives have any Y-DNA testing, that could help determine if there is a link between the two branches.I had a 12-marker test done through National Geographic's Genographic project, and then I forwarded the results to Family Treen DNA.I am having 15 more markers tested, but will not have results until late June.Using the new 2008 nomenclature, my haplogroup is probably R1b1b2.I know my ancestry goes back to Hesse-Darmstadt.I suspect that it goes further back to Alsace, and then either Saxon or Celtic.