Hi, No doubt : Michel DAHLINGER ("fils naturel reconnu") was born in << La Robertsau >> (part of Strasbourg) and lived in Colmar at the time he married Eve JACOB in Niederroedern. Ewald (mother tongues Alsacian and French) -------------------------------------------------- From: "gloria ishida" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:35 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [A-L] Robertsau, Strasbourg and marriage help > Steve, thanks so much. You may be right but I still am a bit confused by > the statement (and I may be mistranslating (never studied French, just > used it in my inimitable fashion when living in Switzerland so need some > clarification: > > Mairie de Niederroedern ... Le trente Janvier ... (1858 at one o'clock) de > releveé ACTE DU MARIAGE célébré en la Maison de Commune de Michel > Dahlinger > a la Robertsau Mairie .... > > I thought that Mairie Niederroedern was only verifying or accepting the > statement that they had been married at the Mairie de Robertsau. > > Such is my French. > > One would think that Strasbourg records included Robertsau. There is no > way to input Robertsau for the civil records.. I did find the couple > living in Robertsau (banlieu de Strasbourg,quartier rouge) in 1861 when I > found the birth and death of their daughter on familysearch. I then found > her records via "adeloch" that gave the area. What one learns by trying! > > Best, > > Gloria > > > > On Jun 30, 2011, at 8:55 PM, Stephan Wall wrote: > >> Hello Gloria, >> >> I looked at your records and saw the marriage bann filed in Niederroedern >> in the >> year 1858. I also looked at the Niederroedern Marriage records and saw >> that >> Michel Dahlinger and Eve Jacob were married there on January 30th. Since >> they >> married in Niederroedern, they would not have married again in >> Strasbourg. I >> verified this by searching the Strasbourg index for 1858 where I found no >> mention of them. >> >> > >> I also noticed on their marriage record that Michel Dahlinger was born at >> "la Robertsau Mairie de Strasbourg". I'm no expert but, the translation >> program >> I use tranlates this to be "the Robertsau Townhall of Strasbourg" >> > This is correct. >> >> I hope this helps >> Steve > > > -- > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Ewald, now I see it! Trying to doctor my conversational French at my age. Now I think Eve must have visited her mother earlier in Robertsau and became acquainted with Michel. I guess I can assume Marguerite came home for the marriage, now that there was necessarily a grand celebration. Gloria On Jul 1, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Ewald K. wrote: > Hi, > > No doubt : Michel DAHLINGER ("fils naturel reconnu") was born in << La > Robertsau >> (part of Strasbourg) and lived in Colmar at the time he married > Eve JACOB in Niederroedern. > > Ewald > (mother tongues Alsacian and French) > --------------------------------------------------