Re: Ludwig Kahl / Lewis Call GER to PA
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In reply to:
Re: Ludwig Kahl / Lewis Call GER to PA
10/23/00
James,
Sorry, I should have added a correction. Ludwig Kahl turned out to be Ludwig Tobias Kall, son of Johann Tobias Kall. All I had were family stories that the last name was Kahl, then I got Grandpa's death certificate which listed his father as Lewis Call. From Baden (incorrect) according to the 1870 PA census index. So I posted the query you responded to.
So I asked for a census look-up on the Venango County genforum list. Got a lot of info that definately proved the relationship including a 1919 biography of one of Grandpa's brothers that said the family was from Callsburg, Germany.
Turned out to be Kallstadt, Pfalz, not baden.
Thanks, now, if I only could find his wife's parents. He went to all the trouble of changing the spelling and the family still disowned her for marrying a German.
Bob