I have been working from five sources documenting the Vassel line that was granted a coat of arms in 1598.
I found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah a book that documents the nobility of Normandy, France and the Vassel family is in this book.
Working in the 1500s and early 1600s is not easy genealogy research and we are very grateful that Klaus Vassel went to the Archives in the city of Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France and found a research paper done in 1924 by Réne Dubourg tracing the Vassel family from the late 1400s into the mid-1700s.
I was amazed to find a microfilm copy of the Dubourg document at the Family History Library which I copied and have in printed book format. It has been a great help to see what Uncle Klaus was working from as he wrote four books about the Vassel ancestors in France.
These are the books I have from Uncle Klaus Vassel:
1. Vassel, Klaus, Die Vassel aus Neuilly-le Malherbe: Department Calvados der Normandie - eine Bestandaufnahme, (Aachen : K. Vassel, c1972) FHL 929.273 Va447v.
2. Klaus Vassel, Die Vassel aus Neuilly-le-Malherbe Departement Calvados der Normandie/ Frankreich - Eine Bestandsaugnahme, (Aachen: Klaus Vassel, 1986) 2nd edition.
3. Klaus Vassel, Les Seigneurs Vassel - Übersetzung -, Die Vassel Lehnsherren von Neuilly-le-Malherbe von René Dubourg, Caen. Übersetzung aus dem Annuaire des cinq Départements de la Normandie (Band 1924 S185 ff). (Aachen, Germany: Klaus Vassel, 1985). This is Uncle Klaus's translation from French into German of the Dubourg manuscript with comments.
4. Vassel, Klaus, Vassel family: Ahnenliste Vassel (Jens, Eick, Jörn), (Aachen, Germany : K. Vassel, c1974) FHL 929.273 Va447vk. Text in German. This is Uncle Klaus's direct-line tracing of the Vassel and his wife's Scheuch lines back as far as he could find them.
THANKYOU!
For your donations to the Vassel Family
Organization Fund
Because of
the kindness of your donations to the Vassel Family Organization Genealogy
Fund, you have also been donating, behind the scene, to the mission of Bruno
and Cari Vassel in Germany. Your donations have been sufficient so that I have
not had to ask for any additional money from Bruno and Cari this past year.
Thank you so very much!
The family
history effort continues to move forward. I have scanned and attached many
family pictures on www.familysearch.org on the Vassel, Elmer, Edwards,
Kessinger, Hill and Davies family lines. You can log in for free, and see the
pictures in Memories as well as
under each person that has photos attached. Such fun!
I marvel at
the genealogy records that are becoming more and more on the Internet. A really
great discovery was the church records of the town of Gröben just south of
Berlin, Germany which has provided information back into the 1500s on our 4th
– 7th great grandparents and their families. Ordinances for 116
people from this town and surrounding villages have been turned into the
temple. Another link gave me information about 232 descendants of our Vassel
line that went to Turkey during the French Revolution. These names have also been
processed through the temple system.
I have
worked with Bruno and Cari to identify the correct Kessinger family line ln Karlsruhe,
Germany and we are pleased to nail that down. I am also working through the
information Bruno, Cari and I found on our 7 week research trip in 2013.
I just keep
praying the Lord will give me a few more years of health and wisdom to keep
this great work moving forward! It has been fun to communicate with Elizabeth
Smithson and Cayr about helping with the research work. My sister Elisabeth
Vassel Anderson and I really enjoy Skyping and working together on the hundreds
of names in the two Greiner books we have from Germany. Bruno and Cari were
able to attend a couple of Greiner family reunions in Germany this year, and in
the process met family members who gave us new information on the Greiner
families who moved to Brussels, Belgium and Hungary. I also found Vassel
families in Slovakia from records that have been indexed and are online in www.familysearch.org.
I have been sorting hundreds of letters and photos in preparation for writing the Bruno Vassel – Mary Elmer book with will be a companion book to the Vassel-Kipke of Brazil book Vera kindly encouraged me to write with her help. Onward and upward.
Thank you so
much for keeping the bank account with sufficient funds so that I can cover the
various costs associated with genealogy research!
MERRY CHRISTMAS
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