Your ancestors just stayed in their villages.

I say it's Baloney!
Now if you are a an dedicated genealogist searching for family history like I am, you know by now that title is a bunch of malarkey. I am going to prove it to you with this brief family history.
My information comes from Ancestry and the Nord Celle orts family book site where I have been lately browsing.
I am personally interested in their family name OTTE. As I study my new family tree of HEINS background. I think it was their influence along with surname of DIETRICH AND BURMESTER, MEYERHOF, which brought my Bergen celle family to the area of Dahlenburg, Bleckede Luneburg [ also surrounding villages] and Dannenberg areas. Also of influence to migration and mingling was the location of a University located at Telmer.

Here an interesting take on the name of Fall Creek Wisconsin. Found in Bergen Cellle or Nord Celle info supposedly from a book about Bergen Celle, which I have never seen.

1.Ehegatte:(1st spouse) Friedrich HEINRICH PROEHL* 01.05.1844 in Breloh Munster+ 08.04.1911 in Plymouth Wisconsin USA oo 21.10.1873 in Fall Creck Wisconsin, USA Keine Kinder gefunden!(No children }

According to 1880 census a# 142/145- Heinrich PROHL or PROEHL age 36, with wife Elisabeth KONRAD was a Lutheran minister, who married at Fall Creek. They had two children by 1880 -Willie age five born abt 1875 in Wisc. - Christ born 1864 in Prussia was sixteen and worked at the saw mill. Residence Augusta Eau Claire - District 138 census. Inhabitants of Bridge Creek page 18 of 23.

More Proehls immigrated in 1882 to the Eau Claire county.Wisc.

Herman PROEHL [Error Of Herman Prahl]
Home in 1900:	] Bridge Creek, Eau Claire, Wisconsin [Augusta, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Age:	45
Birth Date:	Mar 1855
Birthplace:	Germany
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Immigration Year:	1882
Relationship to head-of-house:	Head
Father's Birthplace:	Germany
Mother's Birthplace:	Germany
Spouse's Name:	Amelia PROEHL

According to author Herr Fink, Heinrich PROEHLl and his wife Elisabeth, a USA citizen of Ohio died at Plymouth, Wisconsin. [His name was misspelled as Prochlon census]

Many other Germans Ministers came from Hermansburg as missionaries. Some took further learning in Wisconsin, Mo. and some other leading missionary training facilities.

His ancestors were from Dannenberg, Luchow-Dannenberg
begraben: in Augusta WI USA, [area of many Amish and Mennonite citizens]. Also from Breloh Munster.

Below is Heinrich 's * 1844 father.
Heinrich FRIEDRICH (FRITZ) PRÖHL
*06.05.1811 in Prisser, Luchow-Dannenberg
+ 13.02.1884 in Augusta WI USA
Bemerkungen:(notes)
in Dannenberg, Luchow-Dannenberg
begraben: in Augusta WI USA

His first wife - ANNE MARIE OTTE
* 10.02.1808 in Hermannsburg, Celle
+ 16.12.1853 in Breloh Munster
she had a son born in Hermansburg Celle.
HEINRICH CHRISTOPH OTTE [Her first born son recorded by Herr Fink in book] Listed below him is his wife.
* 19.01.1838 in Hermannsburg, Celle
+ 20.05.1910 in Gillett Arkansas USA
He married oo 17.06.1870 in Prairie City Mo USA
Catharine Magdalena MÖLLER
* 01.10.1837 in Elmshorn, Pinneberg
+ 17.03.1909 in Honey Grove, Fannin, Texas, USA

....................................................................

1.(father) Heinrich FRIEDRICH (FRITZ) PRÖHL
* 06.05.1811 in Prisser, Luchow-Dannenberg
+ 13.02.1884 in Augusta WI USA
.............. His children with Anne Marie Otte.

1. Heinrich Christoph OTTE * 1838 in Hermannsburg, Celle,
+ 1910 in Gillett Arkansas USA.

2. Friedrich Heinrich PROEHL
* 01.05.1844 in Breloh Munster + 08.04.1911 in Plymouth, Wisconsin USA

3. JOHANN HEINRICH WILHELM PROEHL
* 1841 in Breloh Munster, + um 1860 in Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

4. HEINRICH CHRISTOPH PROEHL * 1847 in Breloh Munster, + 1855 in Seedorf, Uelzen.
begraben: 03.07.1855 in Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen

5. HANS HEINRICH Diedrich PROEHL * 1850 in Breloh Munster, + 1853 in Breloh Munster.
* 31.08.1850 in Breloh Munster
+ 31.12.1853 in Breloh Munster
begraben: 04.01.1854 in Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Okay, now you see how they moved around. Those busy Prohls. I can now easily see why some of my family may have been from Westphalia after all. [ Not these though, lets be clear about that] Speaking of which, I should caution you not to mix up the Munster in Celle, which carries no umlaut and that of Muenster of Westphalia, which does carry a umlaut. I am not sure if there was any roman Catholic religion involved in this family.

I think I also have been a busy little bee, so it's time for me to buzz off.
justme jo

Note 1:
There were PROHLS in Dohnsen, and Wardboehmen, [and even in the Nahrendorf ] region. Marrying Otte, Ahrens, Marquard, Allerman, Kruse from Fallingbostel and the local area of Bergen.
Note : Family History linage: 1 Anne Marie Otte 1808 ;
2 father -JOHANN PETER OTTE
* 09.09.1774 in Hermannsburg, Celle + 28.07.1845 in Hermannsburg, Celle.
wife - Martin from Hermansburg, Celle.
3 father - HANS JAKOB OTTE
* um 1738 in Hermannsburg, Celle + 29.03.1818 in Hermannsburg, Celle
wife - (ALVEN) ALM * 02.02.1753 in Beckedorf, Celle + Hermansburg.
4 father - HANS JACOB OTTE * um 1710 in Schlüpke, Hbg., Celle
+ in Schlüpke, Hbg., Celle
wife - WIEDING -* um 1713 + 24.08.1772 in Schlüpke, Hbg., Celle
5 father - HINRICH OTTE * um 1636 in Oldendorf, Celle
+ 23.05.1710 in Oldendorf, Celle.
wife - N.N. born abt. 1640 having seven children and the last child was born at Schluepke, Hbg. Celle.

Note 2:
This tree brings up the surname ELLENBURG from Klein Sommerbeck and her father from Sommerbeck and Dahlenburg. A name which cropped up in my past investigation of the family in the home region area, [ It brought up Seedorf or Neetze location via Hannoverrootsweb's mailing list.] which suggests to me that I should do some further browsing. And maybe that gal from the mailing list because many of her names corresponded with same places as some of my people.


Source:
- http://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de/famreport.php?ofb=bergen&ID=I48890&nachname=AHRENS&modus=&lang=en
This site claims it is information taken from a book written by Herr Fink about region Nord Celle, and Bergen Kries Celle. Luneburg Stadt in Niedersachen, Deutschland.

- Ancestry.com website for Census.