Etienne, I am greatly appreciative of your quick response and translation! My very basic French/German knowledge did provide translation some of the information (along with help from the appropriate French/English or German/English dictionaries!), but your translation gave me a lot more information than I ever would have been able to ascertain on my own. I have seen your responses to so many listers; you provide us witha lot of help that no doubt would be very difficult for us to obtain and for this, I and I am sure every other person you've helped, am extremely grateful. I wish I could be helpful to others on the list and hope that the site I used is one that perhaps others researching in this area of France were unaware of and thus, maybe I was able to help someone somewhere. I know I have spent hours looking through the various communities and documents and have found numerous family namesin the few towns of which I am aware were residences of my ancestors. Thankyou again, Joyce Bard On 4/13/2013 3:40 AM, Etienne Herrbach wrote: > Hi Joyce, > > my translation: > > Marriage No. 1 Gregor DIETSCH & Katharina, Wahlbach (W herafter), 16 > Juni 1875 > - Gregor DIETSCH, born W 12 March 1847, farmer W, major son of > deceased Joseph DIETSCH (farmer W) and Anna Maria FRITSCH (63 y, > without occupation, W, present and consenting) > - Miss Katharina DOLLMANN, born Koetzingen (now Koetzingue = K) 5 May > 1854, without occupation, residing K, major daughter of Joseph > DOLLMANN (83 y, without occupation, K, present and consenting) and > Maria Anna HARTMANN (63 y, without occupation, K, present and > consenting) > - publications: W Sundays 6 & 13 June, K > - groom's father died 27 April 1873 > - witnesses: Christoph BROGLY 67 y, farmer K, bride's cousin; Andreas > DIETSCH 23 y, farmer W, groom's brother; Johann Baptist LANG 26 y, > farmer K, bride's cousin; Franz Joseph BUBENDORF 44 y, school teacher > W, unrelated. > - marriage contract signed in notary BILLIG's office in Landser, 7 > June 1875 > - signatures: Dietsch Gregoire, Dietsch > Dollmann Catherine, Brogly > Dollman father of bride, Lang > hartman Bubendorf > fritsch mayor Dietsch > > Note the first names (Gregor, Katharina) spelled in German in text and > in French in signatures. Typical of that time period! > > Best wishes, > Etienne > >