Gerry, On 10 Aug 2008 at 17:56, Gerry Miller wrote: > I'm curious to know if one could search the Archives for a certain > person not knowing where the person's village might be. > If so I may be could hire someone to search for me? Sorry, that not possible. The preserved church records are books or sheets once written by the minister manually. They are not searchable like data in a data base. So you need to know the person's village before searching in the church books (or films) of the archive. > I would be looking for Jacob ÖHLER born Mar. 1835 Württemberg, > Immigrated 1855. I have found no ships record, naturalization > record. But there is one searchable data base which may be a good starting point to find possible places where OEHLERs once have lived in Württemberg: the data base of emigrants of Southwest Germany often cited this mailing list: <http://www.auswanderer-bw.de/auswanderer/index.php?sprache=en> Now my suggestion how to proceed: go to the search formular, key in OEHLER. The data base is giving you a list of some dozens OEHLER emigrants. Then focus your interest to those OEHLERs who emigrated between say 1850 to about 1860. In order to check where these OEHLERS came from click on blue icon at the left of the line for details. These details show you the place where the emigrants came from and the archive where the emigrant records are preserved. For Württemberg emigrants the relevant archive is in Stuttgart, for Baden emigrants the relevant archive is in Karlsruhe. At the end you have at least some good place, knowing (1) there lived OEHLERs in the time span in question and (2) some of the OEHLER families emigrated from there. The next step would be to check the church books of these few places for the searched person. There is a certain chance but no guarantee that you will find in one of the books your Jacob OEHLER. Good luck Dieter -- Dieter Joos Ueberlingen / Bodensee, Germany Webmaster of RootsWeb's Baden-Wuerttemberg Mailing List > > Thanks. > > ...Gerry in MO > > > > ------------------------------- > 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
baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com writes: >But there is one searchable data base which may be a good starting point to >find possible places where OEHLERs once have lived in Württemberg: the >data base of emigrants of Southwest Germany often cited this mailing list: > ><http://www.auswanderer-bw.de/auswanderer/index.php?sprache=en> > >Now my suggestion how to proceed: go to the search formular, key in >OEHLER. The data base is giving you a list of some dozens OEHLER >emigrants. Then focus your interest to those OEHLERs who emigrated >between say 1850 to about 1860. In order to check where these OEHLERS >came from click on blue icon at the left of the line for details. These details >show you the place where the emigrants came from and the archive where >the emigrant records are preserved. For Württemberg emigrants the >relevant archive is in Stuttgart, for Baden emigrants the relevant archive is >in Karlsruhe. > >At the end you have at least some good place, knowing (1) there lived >OEHLERs in the time span in question and (2) some of the OEHLER >families emigrated from there. The next step would be to check the church >books of these few places for the searched person. There is a certain >chance but no guarantee that you will find in one of the books your Jacob I just have to say that I read this and even though I thought I'd tried this link before, perhaps I used the wrong surname or a different link. In any event, I inserted Mörz and lo and behold, got exactly the right person, dates and all! This has made my evening, after years of searching, so thank you, danke danke schön, Dieter. I also found a Johann Simon Mörz and wonder if it is likely that he is a relative - brother? - to Karl? He emigrated in 1851, 3 years earlier and now I am tracking down where he went, never considering this name might be a family match. His emigration number is one digit different from Karl's (34828 and 34829), so can one assume they applied at the same time or perhaps they were the only ones who applied in that place? So Karl was a Bauer, Evangelical (protestant) and apparently from Hardthausen am Kocher. With the emigrant identification number as well, where is the next best place to start filling in holes? Is it Utah or Stuttgart? There are so many questions that arise, including one that was discussed earlier on this list. Would 500 fl have been a small or an average amount of money to have? (This was a family of 2 adults and 3 small children.) My other question (for now) is: What information is contained in the "gemeindeschluessel" number (in this case, it is 08125111)? Does this match a parish? Apologies for asking questions that have been discussed, but it is hard to focus on details of some exchanges when one is still trying to manage that 'next step'. Kathleen