A Welsh Connection!
A while back, a very nice woman who lives near York, England, contacted me to see if I knew anything about someone named Constantine Hug, who was born in Baden, Germany and who emigrated to Wales in the mid-1800's. I have many Hugs in the family tree, as you will know from previous posts, but when I looked, I saw no one with the name of Constantine. I checked on Ancestry.com and MyHeritage.com, and the only thing I came up with was a Konstantine Hug who was born in Nonnenbach, Germany, in 1831. It says his parents were Sebastian Hug and Maria Dorer, and while I have several Sebastians in the family tree, I can't see where this Konstantine would fit in, especially since Nonnenbach is about 120 miles away from where the Hugs are centered in Heiligenzell or Lahr. I sent the information along, nevertheless. The road to Nonnenbach by jenknox -- Nonnenbach is a small town on the border of Germany and Switzerland, a couple of miles from the Bodensee, a large lake. In W...