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 Beginning with the patriarch Sebastian Kilian, a farmer in Kuehnhard, born before 1560, this book ends
 is great-great-great-grandchildren living in America in the 1700s. Sebastian was the
 great-great-grandfather of the immigrant Andreas Kilian who settled in North Carolina west of the
 Catawba River, before 1749. Through DNA testing, proof of the European origin has been found and
 links this American family to a modern day German family.

   Cover: St. Lambertus Church, Hengstfeld, Andreas’ father & his 11 siblings were baptized.

   Here you will find:

• The ethnicity of Bavaria and Wuerttemberg
• The lives and genealogy of the Andreas Kilian family of Germany and America
• A historical perspective on the social, economic, and political challenges of the times
• The study of German documents up to 400 years old

   Records from 17th–19th centuries reference 117 people from other families including
   Busch, Butz, Cranz, Ebert, Fischer, Gross, Hoerner, Probst, Trump, Walther and Weber.

   Supporting documents include:

• Copies of 85 baptismal, marriage and burial records from German church books
•  Land records for 1612 and 1613 from the Barons of Wollmershausen in Wuerttemberg
• The ship Adventure passenger list in 1732
• 2 oaths signed by Andreas Kilian in Philadelphia in September 1732
• Copies of 30 pages of land grants, deeds, militia lists and a will from the NC archive
• 114 photographs of the places where members of the family lived

   Five villages where six generations of Kilians lived ca. 1560 to 1732. Left to right, the
   villages where the direct line Kilians lived:

1-Kuehnhard   Sebastian

2-Limbach   Georg Sr.

3-Lobenhausen   Georg Jr.

4-Schainbach   Georg Jr. &   Andreas Sr.

5-Steinbach   Andreas Sr. &   son Andreas (NC)

   The book is available by mail for a gift donation of $45.00; includes handling & shipping.
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