Hi Charlie- I don't need anything - just wanted to say hi. I've seen the names Georger/Joerger & Adolph/Adolf in the Siegen records. Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Sheridan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:05 PM Subject: [A-L] Old Tombstones in several cemeteries in Bas-Rhin > If anyone is researching the surnames in the villages listed below and > would like a photo of that tombstone please e-mail me with the family > name. > > Some monuments are dated late 18th or early 19th century while others have > a 19th century date but the person was born in the 18th or early 19th > century. > > I’ve come across few old tombstones in the villages visited and of those > many have been eroded and unreadable. > > I also have photos of many 19th century headstones and if you are looking > for a specific family in one of these villages I’ll take a look. > > Benfeld – GEORGER & KOPP; GEORGER; MARANDE; ROHMER; BLUMSTEIN; MERTIAN; > STACKLER (3 monuments). > > Ebersmunster – HURSTEL (5 monuments); LORBER & MULLER; LOHNER (poor). > > Hilsenheim – ROHMER > > Huttenheim – RIEDWIG; EDEL; WILHELM. > > Kertzfeld – REIBEL, SCHMITT & KLEINDIENST (1 monument); SCHAUB & MEYER (1 > monument). > > Kogenheim – ADOLPH, KRETZ & BAUR (1 monument). > > Direct all correspondence to me. > > Charlie > Homosassa, FL > > [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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

Hi List, Just a thought about tombstones. This has raised long discussions on some other sites and I don't mean to do that here, but... burial and cemetery care and rotation/recycling varies greatly in Europe compared to North America. If one isn't aware of that you can feel like you are banging your head against a stone wall. Hopefully the village you are looking for still has their cemetery intact. In the case of mine, the mayor of the village had all the tombstones removed and destroyed in the 1950s. The cemetery that is there now is "new" and of little use when searching ancient dates. But, there is another possible source available in some villages. That is the war monuments or memorials to fallen soldiers. I have been able to use these to verify both family and witness names found on birth, marriage or death certificates. You know at least they came from that village and so you can follow up from there. Narda On 29 August 2011 11:34, Carolyn Beno <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Charlie- > I don't need anything - just wanted to say hi. I've seen the names > Georger/Joerger & Adolph/Adolf in the Siegen records. > Carolyn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charlie Sheridan" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:05 PM > Subject: [A-L] Old Tombstones in several cemeteries in Bas-Rhin > > > > If anyone is researching the surnames in the villages listed below and > > would like a photo of that tombstone please e-mail me with the family > > name. > > > > Some monuments are dated late 18th or early 19th century while others > have > > a 19th century date but the person was born in the 18th or early 19th > > century. > > > > I’ve come across few old tombstones in the villages visited and of those > > many have been eroded and unreadable. > > > > I also have photos of many 19th century headstones and if you are looking > > for a specific family in one of these villages I’ll take a look. > > > > Benfeld – GEORGER & KOPP; GEORGER; MARANDE; ROHMER; BLUMSTEIN; MERTIAN; > > STACKLER (3 monuments). > > > > Ebersmunster – HURSTEL (5 monuments); LORBER & MULLER; LOHNER (poor). > > > > Hilsenheim – ROHMER > > > > Huttenheim – RIEDWIG; EDEL; WILHELM. > > > > Kertzfeld – REIBEL, SCHMITT & KLEINDIENST (1 monument); SCHAUB & MEYER (1 > > monument). > > > > Kogenheim – ADOLPH, KRETZ & BAUR (1 monument). > > > > Direct all correspondence to me. > > > > Charlie > > Homosassa, FL > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > -- > 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