Deep into the German/French ancestry on my Dad’s side is my 9th great-grandfather François-Alexis DeLEVI (variations: DeLevy, Levi, Levy).
He was a Surgeon by trade in a small town called Homburg. It was surrounded by walls and it was essentially a barracks in his time, with military activity bustling. When I visited the Archives at Homburg back in 2014, I was told he would have been “in demand” as the town’s surgeon; he would have treated injuries & wounds suffered by soldiers & others in town.
DeLevi is an interesting guy. He was a native of Chiron, Cher, France, he married 4 times, and he had 17 children. Child #4, born 2 Oct 1702 in Homburg, was my ancestor, Marie-Elisabeth DeLEVI. She was one of 7 children that François-Alexis had with Marie-Louise GUILLAUME.
These were French families – Marie-Elisabeth married into one too, Nicolas BENOIT (a master hatmaker) – who brought their skilled trades to a town that offered opportunity. Near the modern day Germany/France border, this was also an area that was repopulated & transformed after the Thirty Years’ War in the 1600s.
In the generations that followed, they married into German-speaking families as this region was a bit of a melting pot. My branch of DeLevi & Benoit descendants moved to a small village called Bierbach where they practiced the trade of basketmaking, and they brought this skill with them to the United States.
Here’s the direct line from François-Alexis to me:
François-Alexis DeLEVI 🇫🇷 –> Marie-Elisabeth DeLEVI 🇩🇪 –> Marie-Elisabeth BENOIT 🇩🇪 –> Anna Margaretha FUCHS 🇩🇪 –> Magdalena SCHMITT 🇩🇪 –> Gertrud RECHIN 🇩🇪 –> Jacob Nicolaus WEBER 🇩🇪 –> Elizabeth WEBER 🇺🇸 –> Margaret HILBURGER 🇺🇸 –> Rita ROMANE 🇺🇸 –> Patrick KANALLEY 🇺🇸 –> Craig KANALLEY 🇺🇸
Craig Kanalley 
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