NOTES

    For information on how names are recorded here, and on naming conventions in the original records, see NAMES AND SURNAMES.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SOURCES:

    Information and stories saved and shared among many Kleen cousins;.

    Research in the church records of Arle and Hage via LDS microfilms listed below;

    Research in the Ortssippenbücher (OSB) of Arle and Hage;

    The published website:

          www.tjaden.com

        and the particular links there:

         Tjaden family from Menstede/Arle (tree 22)
         Tjaden/Kleen family from Arle (tree 23)

    Particular appreciation is due for the extensive assistance and sharing of records, many extracted from the OSB of Arle and Hage, by an Illinois Kleen.

    The LDS Family History Center of Orange Grove, Mississippi, through their able assistance, provided access to the following
microfilms of the Arle Church Records, Hannover, Germany, 1827-1874:

1237997 through 1237999; and

the microfilms of the Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1827-1874 (Evangelische Kirche Hage [Kr. Norden]):

1187695 through 1187697.

See: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp