"Our early Theiss and Lauer ancestors migrated to America from the villiage of Hirstein in the Wolferswiler parish of the Dutchy of Zweibrücken in what is now the state of Saarland, Germany. Large numbers of Germans flowed into Pennsylvania which was the most widely advertised of the British colonies in America. Our ancestors joined their countrymen already here ... ."--Introd. Joh Matthias Theiss/Tice/Dice (1704-1748) was born in Birkenfeld, Grünbach,...