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fr. Keith Riggle
10/13/2012 at 3:09 PM
Looking at the "Descendants of Christoff Reigel" link that you sent, it would appear that Janisue Rigel doesn't have the latest and best information from Stefan Riegel and Charles Riegle, which is presented and explained on Stefan's website. Janisue has this Riegel family coming from Chemnitz, Sachsen (Saxony), Germany, which is a totally different part of Germany from where we know Mattheis and his family lived and died. Stefan explains it all in his FAQ at http://stefriegel.cwsurf.de/riegfaq.htm. I strongly believe that you need to remove Jacob Riegel and Barbara REBENTISCH as the parents of Mattheis Riegell and leave him with parents unknown. We're very lucky to have the parish register of the Becherbach bei Kirn church listing the death of Mattheis and the birth or baptism of many of his children, but we may never find a record of his own birth or baptism. After all, we're talking about an event that occurred around 1600 in a part of the world that has seen many wars and consequently many records destroyed.
