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Willkommen
Our Contribution to the Historical Archives of Dittelsheim-Heßloch
This, the story of Thomas Schembs, is our gift to Herrn Hermann Hofmeister, Pfarrer Michael Roos, and the citizens of Dittelsheim-Heßloch for welcoming many of us during our Fifth Familientreffen in July 2023. Brazilian cousins were with us.
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Background
In the 1980s Reinhold Schembs (Mainz/Laubenheim) began researching his family history. A few years later Jim Schembs (Phoenix, Arizona USA) independently started trying to discover from where his great-grandfather Jacob Schembs, an 1850 German emigrant, had come. Reinhold and Jim made contact in 1995 and began collaborating on the Schömbs family history. In 1999 they were joined in their project by Monika Schoembs (Nürnberg).
Most importantly, as it relates to the story of Thomas Schembs, was when in 2005 Fernando Gusmão (Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) reached out to us with his research of Brazilian records.
We now have over eighty emigrants from 1825 until 1940. The Thomas Schembs family is considered a single emigrant. We also have a large password protected family website with the stories of each of the emigrants. And over 11,000 cousins in our Stammbaum.
Hopefully some of the townsfolk from Dittelsheim-Heßloch who know they too are descended from the Schömbs will reach out to tell us through the "Please Click to send Comments or Questions" Link above.
The story is designed to be read on a computer or tablet, not on a smart phone.
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From Dittelsheim to Brazil
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The Story of Thomas Schembs and his Family
Thomas Schembs was one of the early German emigrants to Brazil. He and his family left Germany in 1825 in the first wave to Brazil. The story is a compilation of all we have been able to learn of the family up through about 1940.
To access the story CLICK HERE.
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The Larger Story of Emigration to Brazil
Fernando Gusmão, a Brazilian cousin through marriage, has had his staff at Grupo Sinos produce an 18 minute Documentary on why Germans (and others) emigrated to Brazil in the early 19th Century. And what Brazil was like in those early days. They have been professionally produced in German with subtitles in Portuguese (the national language of Brazil). Separate documents of the subtitles are available in English.
The Documentary is entitled "Für Immer" auf deutsch, "Para Sempre" em portugês, and "Forever" in english. Each title has the same meaning. The emigrants decisions to emigrate to Brazil were "forever" decisions.
Visitors to this website are encouraged to watch them after reading The Story of Thomas Schembs.
" Für Immer" (German audio and German subtitles)
" Para Sempre" (German audio and Portugês subtitles)
" Forever" (German subtitles translated into English)
And finally two documents telling the story of Torres, a German settlement on the Atlantic coast of Brazil founded in 1826. The Schembs were among the first settlers in Torres.
"Origins of Torres" in Portugês and English and Deutsch.
"Immigration to Torres" in Portugês and English and Deutsch.
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