I collected these records over the past three years but have not yet given them the attention they deserve. A good bit, if not most was already known to me, but it is clear as I begin to look through it now, that much is new. It will take me a long time to go through it methodically. Rather than leaving it to sit unused, I am posting it now for all to see. In fact, I need your help to organize and analyze it.  You will see that I am not even sure where some of the people fit in!

The first pages were collected at a visit to the GFF in Nürnberg: I was not fully aware of their sources. I found even more in the city archives of Neustadt an der Aisch.  Some came from the efforts of Herr Ludwig Wendel who had privileged access to the actual church books across the region, and from Herr Martin who may have had similar access. The material from Gresten appears to have been transcribed by Herr Schöberl of Gresten.  Some of the material has the fingerprints of my relative, Fritz Hasselbacher, who visited Gresten many years ago and was one of the few allowed access to the castle and church records. Some comes from the family tree of Pfarrer Georg Kuhr.  Some is still of unknown origin to me. I want very much to give proper attribution, and will do so as swiftly as I can identify the sources.   Needless to say, these records represent the work of truly expert German family historians, some of whom may be actual relatives!  Whatever the respective sources, these are the definitive records of the early Hasselbacher family of Germany.  They represent transcriptions into modern German of the difficult (if not impossible) to read church records of up to 400 years ago.

The following records use some German genealogical or even idiosyncratic abbreviations. I will post a "helper" page later. My intension is to translate and interpret what is presented for each person, and to give links to images of the actual church records, many of which I have. This will be a work in progress and I expect it will take many months. I will try to identify new material, so keep coming back, or better, contact me and tell me what you would like me to work on next!

Peter Hasselbacher
April 4, 2008. Revised 7 Nov 2009.

Name	Born	Born or Lived	Died	Place of Death	Comment
Stephan Haselbacher	1570	Gresten	1641	Gresten	Oldest known Hasselbacher ancestor.
Wolfg. Hasselbacher	1603	Gresten	1674	Oberroßbach	Ancestor of most known modern Hasselbachers.
Andreas Hasselbacher	1607	Gresten	1675		Brother to Wolff.
Thomas Hasselbacher	1639	Gresten			Brother to Wolff.
Hans Hasselbacher	1644	Gresten	1700	Unterschweinach	Father of Christoph and the Münchsteinach line.
Paul Hasselbacher	1672	Oberroßbach	1750	Stübach/ Diespeck	Son of Wolff and Agatha page 2
Christoph Hasselbacher	1673	Unterschweinach	1730	Münchsteinach
Paulus Hasselbacher	1700		1776	Diespeck	page 2
Jhn. Georg Hasselbacher	1710		1774	Münchsteinach	page 2
Jhn. Balthasar Hasselbacher	1754	Münchsteinach	1822	Münchsteinach
Simon Hasselbacher	1776	Emskirchen	1815	Puschendorf
Geo. Leonhard Hasselbacher	1803	Herzogaurach	1868	Puschendorf
Adam Hasselbacher		Gresten	1667
Jhn. Paul Hasselbacher					Burghaslach, Rehweiler. ? Placement
Johann Hasselbacher		Diespeck, Schauerheim			Son of the elder Paulus; b. 1702  page 2
Multiple names		From Dottenheim			page 2
Multiple names					LW
Multiple names
Paul Hasselbacher					Schauerheim. Need to place.
John. Martin Hasselbacher	c1734	Rimbach, Rößleinsdorf
Paul Hasselbacher	c1709	Linden, Mrk. Erlbach
Jhn. Conrad Hasselbacher		Diespeck
Margaretha Hasselbacher		Diespeck
Georg Hasselbacher		Diespeck
Jhn. Georg Hasselbacher		Diespeck
Jhn. Georg Hasselbacher		Eschenbach
Johann Hasselbacher		Elgersdorf
Jhn. Adam Hasselbacher		Gunzendorf
Simon Hasselbacher		Gunzendorf			page 2
Georg Kaspar Hasselbacher		Gunzendorf			page 2
Georg Hasselbacher		Emskirchen
Adam Hasselbacher		Wilhelmsdorf, Gunzendorf
Paul Hasselbacher		Stübach			A second analysis.
Various names		Pfarr. Dottenheim, Hermnsuses			page 2 page 3