Hello: This is my first Post to your web site, Our family has a tradition that says my Father's 3rd Great-grandfather was Samuel Richard- reichert??? Who came from your area or his family that is. around 1787also I was told this info Samuel Richard " 12 MA" has any one done any research on this, or his family ??? Samuel Richard was in Westmoreland PA USA. Back in 1830. The story was that Samuel Richard was from your area ?? Here is my other Email address baronrichard@q.com hope to hear from some one ???? Jim

Hi Jim, it sounds as if you need to do some more American research. For all European research, you must have a village name, or at least a small region with a few villages, because that is where all the records are kept! There are few to no departement, county or region-wide censuses or other general surveys such as our US Census records. So, you must do your American or Canadian research, before trying to "jump the pond" back to Europe. Have you found the naturalization applications? Often the first and second application contain much more detail than the final certificate. How about obituaries, in particular those published in small local newspapers, church publications, or German or French newspapers? Many of the old newspapers are available on microfilm. For instance, see the holdings of the NYU: http://library.nyu.edu/research/german/. These microfilms will often be available by Inter-Library Loan. Talk to your librarian about local policies. http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2004/03/obituaries.html, http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2003/12/death-records-obituaries-biographies.html and http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa071299.htm might have more help on that. For more ideas, see: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/european-research.html Also, are you in contact with this researcher? http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=marilynhowe She has a Samuel Richard in Westmoreland County PA. Valorie PS: This isn't a website, but an email list. On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:09 PM, carolyn richard <cjrich1@msn.com> wrote: > Hello: > This is my first Post to your web site, > Our family has a tradition that says my Father's 3rd Great-grandfather > was Samuel Richard- reichert??? > Who came from your area or his family that is. > around 1787also I was told this info Samuel Richard " 12 MA" has any one done any research on this, or his family ??? > Samuel Richard was in Westmoreland PA USA. > Back in 1830. > The story was that Samuel Richard was from your area ?? > Here is my other Email address baronrichard@q.com > hope to hear from some one ???? > Jim -- Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507013560 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/valoriez MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/valoriez Genealogy Blog: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/ All my pages: http://valorie.zimmerman.googlepages.com

Dear Valorie: Thank you for your email and your points . Will follow them and hopefully latter I hope I could Get back to you When I have Narrowed down to a city ?? Will try to get intouch with MS Howie first ? And will Look at NYU . Then I'll Sign off Your list to I can Get More Detail Info. Thank you again Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valorie Zimmerman" <valorie.zimmerman@gmail.com> To: <alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [A-L] Hello This Is My First Post To Your Web Site. > Hi Jim, it sounds as if you need to do some more American research. > For all European research, you must have a village name, or at least a > small region with a few villages, because that is where all the > records are kept! There are few to no departement, county or > region-wide censuses or other general surveys such as our US Census > records. So, you must do your American or Canadian research, before > trying to "jump the pond" back to Europe. > > Have you found the naturalization applications? Often the first and > second application contain much more detail than the final > certificate. How about obituaries, in particular those published in > small local newspapers, church publications, or German or French > newspapers? Many of the old newspapers are available on microfilm. For > instance, see the holdings of the NYU: > http://library.nyu.edu/research/german/. These microfilms will often > be available by Inter-Library Loan. Talk to your librarian about local > policies. http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2004/03/obituaries.html, > http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2003/12/death-records-obituaries-biographies.html > and http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa071299.htm might have > more help on that. For more ideas, see: > > http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/european-research.html > > Also, are you in contact with this researcher? > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=marilynhowe > > She has a Samuel Richard in Westmoreland County PA. > > Valorie > > PS: This isn't a website, but an email list. > > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:09 PM, carolyn richard <cjrich1@msn.com> wrote: >> Hello: >> This is my first Post to your web site, >> Our family has a tradition that says my Father's 3rd Great-grandfather >> was Samuel Richard- reichert??? >> Who came from your area or his family that is. >> around 1787also I was told this info Samuel Richard " 12 MA" has any >> one done any research on this, or his family ??? >> Samuel Richard was in Westmoreland PA USA. >> Back in 1830. >> The story was that Samuel Richard was from your area ?? >> Here is my other Email address baronrichard@q.com >> hope to hear from some one ???? >> Jim > > -- > Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507013560 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/valoriez > MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/valoriez > Genealogy Blog: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/ > All my pages: http://valorie.zimmerman.googlepages.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 >

JIm Check out http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp or http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ or http://www.surnamenavigator.org/ Just fill out the blanks , and click " search " , or " go " If the records are not entered , then You may have to order some films , of that town ( if You find the town's name ), of that time , from the FHC library Karl Roussin ========================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "carolyn richard" <cjrich1@msn.com> To: <ALSACE-LORRAINE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 4:09 PM Subject: [A-L] Hello This Is My First Post To Your Web Site. > Hello: > This is my first Post to your web site, > Our family has a tradition that says my Father's 3rd Great-grandfather > was Samuel Richard- reichert??? > Who came from your area or his family that is. > around 1787also I was told this info Samuel Richard " 12 MA" has any > one done any research on this, or his family ??? > Samuel Richard was in Westmoreland PA USA. > Back in 1830. > The story was that Samuel Richard was from your area ?? > Here is my other Email address baronrichard@q.com > hope to hear from some one ???? > Jim > > -- > 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