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Notes

  1. Michael Hauk, email to Karla Tipton on behalf of Heimatverein Ittlingen e.V., May 2026, Karla Tipton Collection.
  2. Joan Romig Reed, email to Karla Tipton, March 2024, Karla Tipton Collection.
  3. Clarence Romig and Ruth Romig, letter to Evelyn and Wayne Kearns, 20 December 1997, Karla Tipton Collection.
  4. Ibid.
  5. Crispenhofen Evangelical Church Records (Mischbuch Vol. 1, Bild 133), baptism of Eva Catharina, 30 March 1663. Michael Romig identified as Gerichtsmitglied. Digital image via Archion.de, June 2026. Primary source.
  6. FamilySearch index, LDS film 101891215. Crispenhofen and Bobachshof church records. Entries for the Stoffel Romig family, 1652–1663; Anna Maria baptized at Bobachshof, 1663.
  7. Crispenhofen Evangelical Church Records (Mischbuch Vol. 2, Bild 16), marriage of Hanns Leonhardt Schiermer and Maria Barbara, daughter of the late Andreas Romig, 15 May 1688. Digital image via Archion.de, June 2026. Primary source. An abbreviated entry on Bild 3 for the same event was earlier misread as "Schrimpf"; Bild 16 is authoritative.
  8. Crispenhofen Evangelical Church Records (Mischbuch Vol. 2, Bild 2), marriage of Wendal Romig, Wagner, and Barbara daughter of Martin Jenders, 13 September 1681. Digital image via Archion.de, June 2026. Primary source. The FamilySearch index reads the bride's surname as "Zendler"; the primary image shows "Jenders."
  9. Crispenhofen Evangelical Church Records (Mischbuch Vol. 1, Bild 128), baptism of Joerg Wendel Romig, 12 February 1658. His son Hanns Michel's baptism in Crispenhofen establishes his presence there in February 1689. John Adam Romich's birth in Neidenstein that same month is established by Hollenbach 1973. The geographical impossibility eliminates Joerg Wendel (b. 1658) as John Adam's father.
  10. FamilySearch index, LDS film 101891215. Stophel Romer buried 11 October 1694 at Bobachshof, age 67. Wendel Romegl/Remigs: infant son Hannes Georg buried 4 May 1695, Bobachshof; son Hanss Bernhard, age 10, buried 21 May 1703, Bobachshof.
  11. The identification of Wendel Romig (b. 1659, son of Stoffel) as Georg Wendel Romich cannot be settled under the project's settlement rule — no primary source directly links him to Ittlingen or Neidenstein. His Bobachshof children's deaths in 1695 and ca. 1703 create geographic tension with John Adam's 1689 Neidenstein birth (55+ miles apart). The proposed migration sequence is plausible but unproven. GLA Karlsruhe archive request submitted 30 May 2026 for documents that may resolve this. Follow up after 11 July 2026.
  12. Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America, Volume I: The Northern Kraichgau (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania German Society, 1983), entry 432.
  13. Gustav Neuwirth, Geschichte der Gemeinde Ittlingen (Ittlingen: Municipality of Ittlingen, 1981), pages 68–69 (B.IV Ortsherrschaften).
  14. Neuwirth, Geschichte der Gemeinde Ittlingen, page 234. The entry "Hanß Adam Romich" is drawn by Neuwirth from the 9 May 1721 Prozeßvollmacht at GLA Abt. 229 A 50203, cited in the lawsuits section with footnote 22.
  15. Neuwirth, Geschichte der Gemeinde Ittlingen, pages 149–152 (Romigshof), 325–326 (1839 Frondienstablösungsvertrag); archive reference GLA Archiv Gemmingen A 2398.
  16. Neuwirth, Geschichte der Gemeinde Ittlingen, pages 89–124 (B.V, Schweinekrieg and lawsuits). Archive citation footnote 22: GLA Abt. 229 A 50203.
  17. Neuwirth, Geschichte der Gemeinde Ittlingen, pages 89–90. Seal listed as "HR" in the Prozeßvollmacht seal table. The original document at GLA Abt. 229 A 50203 would confirm or revise this reading.
  18. Raymond R. Hollenbach, transcription of Moravian Church records, Congregation at Allemengel, transcribed 1973; copied by Warren J. Ziegler, 1980; LDS microfilm 115242; Lebenslauf of Adam Romich, Orange Family History Center.
  19. Ittlingen Evangelical Church Records, LDS Microfilm 1189132, baptism of Agnes Margaretha Bernhard, 2 December 1687. Handwritten research notes by Karla Tipton, c. 1990. Mother's maiden name Huber confirmed from Ittlingen Evangelical Church Records, burial register, entry 19, Anna Elisabetha Bernhardin, 9 December 1755; digital image via Archion.de, June 2026. Primary source.
  20. Ittlingen Evangelical Church Records (Kirchenbuch), LDS Microfilms 1189132 and 1189133. Primary images examined via Archion.de, June 2026. Master portfolio transcription: ittlingen_church_records_romich_master_portfolio.md.
  21. Emmaus Moravian Congregation, burial records, Old Moravian Cemetery; entry for Friedrich Romig, death 6 July 1783. Age at death confirms birth year 1713. Ittlingen Kirchenbuch (LDS Film 1189133, page 13) records baptism in April 1714. Both dates accepted from independent records; the one-year gap between birth and baptism is unexplained.
  22. Ittlingen Evangelical Church Records, LDS Film 1189133, Johann Martin Romich, born 23 February 1719. Primary source image via Archion.de, June 2026. This child was not present in earlier compiled source lists for this family; the primary source imaging resolved the omission.
  23. Ittlingen Evangelical Church Records, LDS Film 1189133, page 24, Anna Maria Romich, born 13 June 1724, baptized 16 June 1724. Primary source image via Archion.de, June 2026. FamilySearch index gives June 15; the primary record reads June 13.
  24. Raymond R. Hollenbach, transcription of Moravian Church records, Congregation at Allemengel, LDS microfilm 115242; Lebenslauf of Heinrich Romich, confirming birth on 15 February 1729 at Ittlingen to "old Brother Adam Romich." Primary source. The FamilySearch index "Johann Heinrich" for John Adam's 1729 son is correct. An earlier misreading of the master portfolio transcription had reversed this child's name with Philip Balthasar's son Johann Dietrich; the Allemengel Lebenslauf resolves the question.
  25. Ittlingen Evangelical Church Records, LDS Film 1189133, Georg Wendel Romich, born 8 September 1731, baptized 9 September 1731; godfather Gottfried Greiner, Schultheiß of Ittlingen. Primary source image via Archion.de, June 2026.
  26. Ittlingen Evangelical Church Records, LDS Film 1189133, 1729 baptism entry for Philipp Balthasar Romich's son. Wife's name given as Agnes Elisabetha. FamilySearch index and earlier compiled notes give only "Elisabetha."
  27. Philip Balthasar Romich's son Johann Dietrich, baptized ca. 28 January 1729, died 25 November 1749, age 20. Ittlingen Kirchenbuch (LDS Film 1189133); Neuwirth, Geschichte der Gemeinde Ittlingen.
  28. Neuwirth, Geschichte der Gemeinde Ittlingen, pages 153–154 (Mayleshof lease, 1752–1767); page 178 (1751 boundary survey, Philip Balthasar as Feldrichter); pages 234–235 (1752 Bürgerliste, Ortsgericht); GLA Archiv Gemmingen A 2506.
  29. Neuwirth, Geschichte der Gemeinde Ittlingen, page 393 (Bürgermeister list): Adam Romich, Bürgermeister approximately 1844–1855.
  30. Joan Romig Reed, email and travel correspondence to Karla Tipton, 1997–2026, Karla Tipton Collection; Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, "Ship Dragon, 1732," transcription accessed 1999.
  31. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, "Ship Dragon, 1732"; Captain's List, Oath of Allegiance, and Oath of Abjuration, 30 September 1732. Also: Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants, entry 432.
  32. Hollenbach, Moravian Church records, Allemengel, Lebenslauf of Adam Romich.
  33. Ittlingen Evangelical Church Records, LDS Film 1189133, Anna Elisabetha, daughter of Philipp Balthasar Romich and Agnes Elisabetha, born 2 December 1731, baptized 4 December 1731. Marginal death note: "† 1732." Primary source image via Archion.de, June 2026. A FamilySearch index entry giving a death date of 1798 for this individual is contradicted by the primary-source marginal note.
  34. Hollenbach, Moravian Church records, Allemengel, Lebenslauf (biographical memoir) of Ursula Romich, died 21 December 1766. Her surname at birth is given as Wanner in two independent primary-source transcriptions (Hollenbach 1973; Burgert 1983). Compiled sources including Joan Reed's research summaries give Warner. Wanner is used here as the recommended reading pending examination of the original German records.
  35. Ibid.
  36. Caspar Stoever, marriage record, Johann Adam Romich and Maria Ursula Krämer, 19 June 1733; Caspar Stoever Marriage Records, IGI No. 7723688. Also: Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants, entry 432.