You are probably referring to the link below. Although my information came from lecture material. I looked for a similar statement at an Internet site, like here: http://medeltiden.kalmarlansmuseum.se/e-niva3/1-6-5.phtml?userid=0 The Town Life link is here: http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/<http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/townlife.html> townlife.html <http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/townlife.html> Aida On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I may be mistaken, and I am more frequently than I'd like, but I think > Linda and Gloria were hoping for a specific reference to your source that > "children of Burghers who married were granted [full?] Burgher status". > > That line was a new one for me also. Much of the rest of your post I was > already aware of. I have seen statements in my readings that in, at least, > some states (such as The Netherlands) children of Burghers had Burgher > status. Although, nothing in my readings has indicated whether that status > held over into "adulthood". I know that Burgher status could be lost for > various reasons. > > I too was looking forward to seeing a specific reference for your above > statement. While I would love nothing more than to spend hours delving > into the information in your links, my schedule doesn't frequently allow > such open-ended research tasks. ;') > > Brian > > On Fri, July 1, 2011 10:22 pm, Aida Kraus wrote: > > To Gloria and Linda: > > The quickest resource is Zedlers Lexikon (around 1706-1736) which you can > > actually access on line, provided you can read the print. The original > > typeface is "Fraktur" in German, which is also known as "Gothic print" in > > English. There is an index on this site and you can choose the subjects. > > Here is the link: > > http://www.zedler-lexikon.de/index.html > > ... > > > -- > 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 >