Helen..I may have missed it...Have you checked the records of Emmanuel Catholic Church in Daytonwhere he married Regina Rachel Lehman(n) a on 28 June 1847.I've found that during that era,Catholic church's kept their records as they did in Europe--Ie birth, death and christening recordsPLUS familybook records (if you're not familiar with these, they are very similar to the familyrecords sheets used by genealogists. Familybooks were begun with the birth of the first child My Catholic Alsatian ancestors who immigrated abt the same time, and settled in villages on the outskirts of Cleveland.Their family book pages and the the christening records oftheir first born children included the parents birth villages. However, after they'd had fiveor six kids the Priest stopped entering the birth village info of the parents) Hopefully, the records of Emmanuel Catholic Church were microfilmed by theLDS church and you can order them from the Salt Lake Library. if not available through thelocal church they should be available via the diocese. (Tho I advise you phone to make surewhich diocese would have the records from that church and time period. Since the jurisidiction ofthe diocese changed as the number of churches multipledShirley in San Diego ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Helen Lehman <hlehman48@aol.com> To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com Subject: [A-L] Which Muhlhausen are the ZINCK Family from? Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:36:34 -0400 (EDT) Hello, I seek someadvice about where to look for records? My husband’s ancestor Celestine/Colestin ZINCK/ZINK was born 06 April1821 “near Muhlhausen in Alsace”, according to his obituary in the Gedenk-Blatter,Dayton [Ohio, USA] German newspaper of memorial obituaries. Weknow he came to the USA in about 1844, also in his obit. He married Regina Rachel Lehman(n) atEmmanuel Catholic Church in Dayton on 28 June 1847. His father was Joseph Zinck- born abt. 1780,died 10 June 1865 in Montgomery County (near Dayton). I believe his mother was Terressa – born1784, died 02 Nov 1853 in Dayton. Iknow, from his father’s last will and testament, that he had two brothers;Anton 1810-1889 and Joseph 1820-1855. Both brothers died in Dayton or the area. The whole family are of the Roman Catholicreligion, at least after they came here. I made theassumption that my best bet would be to check the records of the Catholic Churchfor “near Muhlhausen in Alsace”. Istarted with the city of Mulhausen that is north-northeast of Haguenau. Unless I made a mistake, the Catholic Churchclosest to this Mulhausen would be Pfaffenhoffen. I read (as best I could) the baptismalrecords for 1768-1792 but failed to find even one occurrence of the surname ofZINCK/ZINK. I searchedthe civil births of the town of Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France for the years 1802through 1830 for Zinck family members. I searched the followingmicrofilms from the Family History Library: Film #'s 715480 (Ten-yearindexes 1802-1822), 739888 (births 1802-1805), 739889 (births 1806-1819), and739890 (births 1820-1830). Between 1802 and 1820 I located two Zinckfamilies residing in this town. There was the family of Jean Zinck and BarbaraObrecht. I located one child born to them in 1811 named Jacques. The other family was the family of Jacques Zinck and MargueriteTritthardt. I identified two children born to them, Jean on 29 July 1811and Susanne, born in 1814. Between 1820 and 1830 I located four Zinckchildren born. The following were children of Jean Zinck and RosineSollinger: Jean, born 20 November 1825 and Rosine, born 11 July1827. Henriette Zinck was born to the unmarried Madelaine Zinck on 29June 1828. Sophie Zinck was born, also in 1828, to Jacque Zinck andSophie Dridhard. These were the only Zincks that I found born in Mulhouseduring this time period. Could theyhave left a different Muhlhausen? Whatexactly does “near Muhlhausen in Alsace” mean? I havealready corresponded with Mr. Bruno Sauer at the Catholic Church in Muhlhausen,Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. He doesn’thave any ZINCK/ZINK records there. Anysuggestions will be greatly appreciated. Helen Lehman [hlehman48@aol.com] -- Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________ NetZero now offers 4G mobile broadband. Sign up now. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT1