I investigated the whereabouts of these families with the following results :
 | Some families changed their intentions and did not emigrate at all. |
| Other families received a travelling allowance and had indeed been in
South Prussia, but came back some months later in 1799. They still had to pay back the travelling allowance, of which most of them were unable to, due to poverty. |
| Other families settled at the estates of Erbprinz Wilhelm von
Oranien, most of them lived there still 1804, but left from there in 1804 or 1805 after having achieved enough of a travelling allowance, some of them came back to their home country before Oct. 19th, 1805. |
Further details (in German only) in:
| Walter Kolb, Die Auswanderung von
Siegerländern nach Südpreußen im Jahre 1799 Beiträge zur Siegerländer Familienkunde, Heft 9. Siegen 2001 |
| Walter Kolb, Losschein nach Südpreußen in : Siegerland 78 (2001) S. 137-149 |
