As a followup to Paul's excellent post on parishbooks, I'd like to recommend the book, KInship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 by David Warren Sabean. To quote the back cover, "This work analyzes shifts in the relations of families, households and individuals in a single German village during the transition to a modern social structure and cultural order." I became fascinated by the family relationships and intermarriage between families while researching Lauffen am Neckar. Over the years I have been in touch with several people who are descendents of the villagers my ancestors must have known in Lauffen. Many of the same surnames ocurred repeatedly in family registers and parish registers over three hundred years. I began to wonder why certain families intermarried and why godparents were chosen. Kinship in Neckarhausen, while not a light read, provided insight into life in a German village during those years. Regards, Kathi OTT Williams (Kraft, Steinle, Allinger in Lauffen am Neckar)

Hi, Kathy, Also a very useful post! Are you aware of any similar kinship studies done for the Kreisgau area, including Unteroewisheim and surrounding villages? Thanks, Lorraine Allrelated Researching Lapp/Lapp and Bertsch families 1709 to America (alternate spellings Barse, Barsh, Bars, Bersh, Bersch, Beersch, Beersh, Bertsch, Bresch, Bretsch, Borst, Borsch, Boersch, Buers, Burs, Pears, Pares, Peerts) On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:09 AM, <bigbluedog1@cox.net> wrote: > As a followup to Paul's excellent post on parishbooks, I'd like to > recommend the book, KInship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 by > David Warren Sabean. To quote the back cover, "This work analyzes shifts in > the relations of families, households and individuals in a single German > village during the transition to a modern social structure and cultural > order." > > I became fascinated by the family relationships and intermarriage between > families while researching Lauffen am Neckar. Over the years I have been in > touch with several people who are descendents of the villagers my ancestors > must have known in Lauffen. Many of the same surnames ocurred repeatedly in > family registers and parish registers over three hundred years. I began to > wonder why certain families intermarried and why godparents were chosen. > Kinship in Neckarhausen, while not a light read, provided insight into life > in a German village during those years. > > Regards, > Kathi OTT Williams > (Kraft, Steinle, Allinger in Lauffen am Neckar) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies." Iliad, VI.146-150, trans. Lattimore. So, tell me again, why the heck am I raking up all these leaves?