Re: Richmers or Richmyers??????
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Richmers or Richmyers??????
8/27/00
Hi, we are also Rickmers from Germany.My grandfather Otto Jakob Karl Rickmers immigrated to the US about the time of WWI.We lived in Germany for several years and met many of our Rickmers relatives there.There are some on the island of Meldorf off the Black Sea and many more in part of northern Germany.I know that one of the Rickmers was referenced in Hitler's Mein Kampf but I have no idea which branch of the family that is.Our know our relatives were sea-farers because we have the sea chest from the 1700s from a Jakob Rickmers.It is a beauty!
I will tell my family about this site since we have been researching family history, too.I have also heard that the spelling may have been rykmers at some point.
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Re: Richmers or Richmyers??????
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