These pages have been composed as the result of the cooperation between members and editors of the OSG-GS
I wish to acknowledge the following persons for their contributions: Gene Jeffries and members of OSG-GS (SC, USA) and all others who have shared their research and files; Jim Steinwinder needs to be thanked for his excellent knowledge on the history of these papers and the fact he shared it all.
Special thanks to Beverly Shuler and Mary Bondurant Warren, who made it possible for me to work with the original handwriting of the first ministers in Orangeburg, members of the worldwide Giezendanner family. © Joop Giesendanner, the Netherlands

Please use this page to understand the German written originals,
do not hesitate to comment or improve, only together we achieve the best results:
mail to: Joop

• Given the time I will translate them all, but right now I rather do all transcriptions first

• In general a name ending on -in, will be used for the feminine members of a family,
  so: Example Giessendannerin, is the daughter or wife of Mr. Giessendanner.

• Why is Gießendaner in the original and Giessendanner in the transcript?
  Because plain text is a rule on most genealogical sites, ß may be ss or sz, both are allowed and used, the n is doubled because of the hyphen on top of it in the original

• Why are some parts of the transcript in red ?
  These papers are over 250 years old and sometimes beyond reading, the ink has vanished, the page is torn, there is an ink spot, whatever reason, if the Xerox of the original was not readable I have filled the gap if possible with what I anticipated was there

• German language as found in the original is explained below

original in

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Pictures by courtesy of 
Charles Howard Felder

Member of the Orangeburgh
German-Swiss Gen. Soc.
Member of the Salley Archives in Orangeburg