Hi Jacque, Do you have more information about Peter Croft? According to the site www.geopatronyme.com the names Kroft/Krofft and Croft/Crofft are unknown in Alsace-Lorraine (no birth registered in Alsace-Lorraine between 1891-1990). The names Kraft/Krafft are more present in Alsace-Lorraine. The site www.castlegarden.org shows a great number of Peter Kroft/Kraft. See the following sites (long URL!) http://castlegarden.org/search_02.php?m_ship=&po_port=&p_first_name=p*&p_last_name=kraft&o_occ=&co_country=&province=&town=&m_arr_date_start=1820&m_arr_date_end=1913&submit.x=38&submit.y=15 http://castlegarden.org/search_02.php?m_ship=&po_port=&p_first_name=p*&p_last_name=kroft&o_occ=&co_country=&province=&town=&m_arr_date_start=1820&m_arr_date_end=1913&submit.x=79&submit.y=21 Happy Easter Ewald -------------------------------------------------- From: <Rmomba@aol.com> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 2:55 AM To: <alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com> Subject: [A-L] 1852 ship from LeHavre to New York > Peter Kroft (known by Peter Croft in United States) got on a ship in > France > at Le Havre (Havre De Gau) and came to America. I have been unable to find > him on any ship lists and read that there is no lists of passengers > sailing out of Le Havre on passenger vessels. There is a list of those > who sailed > on freight vessels from 1750 through 1886. The departure manifests are > very hard to read because they are in old French script and fine and > faint, > and supposedly not indexed. > > Has anyone heard about this list? And is it something that would require > someone fluent in French to look at? > > Jacque Wallingford > _Rmomba@aol.com_ (mailto:Rmomba@aol.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

I am a "lurker" but always watch this list with great interest. Sometimes I find people mention info they have gotten off sites I am not familiar with. Would some of you be kind enough to list one of two of your favorite FREE Alsace Lorraine related websites - especially those that actually have searchable databases? I'm sure there would be duplicates, but I'm also sure others like me would appreciate discovering some new resources! Thanks to all! Karen Gauny Crisalli

On 4/4/2013 6:00 PM, Karen Crisalli wrote: > Would some of you be kind enough to list one of two of your favorite FREE > Alsace Lorraine related websites - especially those that actually have > searchable databases You probably already know these, but... <archives.cg67.fr/scripts/05sources/05_sources_table.asp> <www.geopatronyme.com> Todd

On 4/4/2013 6:00 PM, Karen Crisalli wrote: > I am a "lurker" but always watch this list with great interest. Sometimes I > find people mention info they have gotten off sites I am not familiar with. > > Would some of you be kind enough to list one of two of your favorite FREE > Alsace Lorraine related websites - especially those that actually have > searchable databases? I'm sure there would be duplicates, but I'm also sure > others like me would appreciate discovering some new resources! > > Thanks to all! > > Karen Gauny Crisalli > Also... <population.bas-rhin.fr/ellenbach/ellenbach_flash/ellenbach_flash.php>

www.cdhf.net (paid membership required for some content) -- I use it frequently for the index of marriages which, although by no means comprehensive, can point you to communities in which a surname was found at some point in the past; click on Bases de données in the black bar across the top of the page; on the resulting page click on marriages in the second box on the right side of the page; and on the next page click on Accéder à la base. You can do searches by groom (Epoux) or bride (Epouse), and if there are more than 50 results you'll have to narrow your search by date range. The search engine supports wildcards (* for one or more letters, ? for a single letter). Click on the left arrow icon to start the search. www.geneanet.org -- not specific to Alsace (which is also true of www.geopatronyme.com, already mentioned); a free account will get you access to basic data; very useful because it is based in Europe rather than the US, so it has much more information from European genealogists than does wc.rootsweb.com, where I post my own GEDCOM files. http://fr.geneawiki.com/index.php/Archives_en_ligne -- also not specific to Alsace, but a very useful one-stop place to go to determine what records are available online by department Robert Behra

Hi Karen, reading your mail, only one thing pop's up: re-consider your membership in this list. Why did you join? It is all about giving and taking. Taking and giving. Lurking is okay. But you are requesting without giving anything. Hard soap! Regards, Ralf Stamporek --- Original Nachricht --- von Karen Crisalli am 05.04.2013 00:00 > I am a "lurker" but always watch this list with great interest. Sometimes I > find people mention info they have gotten off sites I am not familiar with. > > Would some of you be kind enough to list one of two of your favorite FREE > Alsace Lorraine related websites - especially those that actually have > searchable databases? I'm sure there would be duplicates, but I'm also sure > others like me would appreciate discovering some new resources! > > Thanks to all! > > Karen Gauny Crisalli -- Wciaz poszukuje osob o nazwisku STA(M)POREK w Kielcach i okolicach.

Ralf, I have never had to be always giving in order to ask for help on any list that I am a part of! Karen asked a legitimate question and deserves a polite answer ... Not a critique of her involvement! JudyS Sent from my iPad On Apr 4, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Ralf Stamporek <r.s@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi Karen, > > reading your mail, only one thing pop's up: > re-consider your membership in this list. Why did you > join? > > It is all about giving and taking. Taking and giving. > > Lurking is okay. But you are requesting without > giving anything. Hard soap! > > Regards, > Ralf Stamporek > > > --- Original Nachricht --- > von Karen Crisalli > am 05.04.2013 00:00 >> I am a "lurker" but always watch this list with great interest. Sometimes I >> find people mention info they have gotten off sites I am not familiar with. >> >> Would some of you be kind enough to list one of two of your favorite FREE >> Alsace Lorraine related websites - especially those that actually have >> searchable databases? I'm sure there would be duplicates, but I'm also sure >> others like me would appreciate discovering some new resources! >> >> Thanks to all! >> >> Karen Gauny Crisalli > > -- > Wciaz poszukuje osob o nazwisku STA(M)POREK w Kielcach i okolicach. > -- > 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