Marilyn To find out more records of Your G.Grandfather , and You know the town that He came from. Check out some microfilms from the FHC library Karl Roussin ============================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn Potthast" <omaandopa06@att.net> To: <alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [A-L] Holle > My question to you is even if you have the town where they came from in > Alsace-Lorraine who do you get that information. I have my gr > grandfathers > birth certificate where he was born. How do I go about from there. I > also > can't find the ship he came over on which was in the late 1850's. The > Birth Certificate says Cosswiller. So where do I go from there? Anyone > can > help me would be appreciated. > > -----Original Message----- > From: alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Valorie > Zimmerman > Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:12 AM > To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [A-L] Holle > > Hi Mary Ann, and welcome to the wonderful world of A-L 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 lots of ideas of how to go about this, see: > http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/european-research.html > > I hope this is helpful. > > Valorie > > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Mary Ann Webb <conansmom@att.net> wrote: >> Hello! >> >> My great grandparents emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine to the USA in 1888. >> I > know their birthdates and know they were married in 1886 however I do not > know what city they were from or other family members names ie their > parents, siblings, etc. Do you have any suggestions on how I can obtain > this > information? >> >> Thank you! > -- > 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 > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature > database 3440 (20080913) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature > database 3443 (20080915) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.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