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in 1973 when the region which spawned our branch of the Heiden
family was behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany, I took a
chance and sent a letter to the Central Agency for Genealogy in the German Democratic Republic
in Leipzig, Germany. To my pleasant surprise, they responded
with some valuable information. The letters were in German but I
quickly found someone who could translate them for me.
The six letters were as follows: |