Shirley, The information at the LDS FamilySearch are to be used as leads to obtaining the actual records. You really need to visit your local LDS Family History Center and rent the microfilms of the records for your villages of interest. Usually more of the story can be formulated from the actual records. There is a reference in the LDS Ancestral Files at FamilySearch for your family (AFN:1H3X-977) that was submitted by GUENTHER W. AND ANGELIKA KAISER of LAYTON UT. According to that information they lived in St. Georgen, Freiburg, Baden. In addition to many entries for your family in the LDS IGI Files submitted by patrons (may be of questionable accuracy), there are also these extracted records in the LDS IGI Files (usually highly accurate). ========================== IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 FR. SALES DRAYER Spouse: M._ THERESIA KOCH Marriage: 02 OCT 1825 Katholisch, Sankt Georgen Breisgau, Freiburg, Baden Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. Batch No.: M942583 1784 - 1870 0873341 IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 FRANZ SALES DRAYER Spouse: AFRA MARIA HANSER Marriage: 25 JUL 1830 Katholisch, Sankt Georgen Breisgau, Freiburg, Baden Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. Batch No.: M942583 1784 - 1870 0873341 ========================== The source reference in that marriage (microfilm number 0873341) points to these records. ========================== Kirchenbuch, 1650-1907 Katholische Kirche Sankt Georgen Freiburg (Breisgau) (Main Author) Parish register transcripts of baptisms, marriages, deaths, family registers and confirmations for Sankt Georgen, Freiburg (Breisgau), Baden, Germany, including Wendlingen and Uffhausen, all now part of Freiburg. ========================== Note: not all the records for Sankt Georgen have been extracted, so the children of Franz Sales may not be listed in the IGI Files. BTW: Salesii is likely the Latin form of Sales. At 02:01 AM 12/27/2008, you wrote: >From: "Shirley Fox" <shasta@satx.rr.com> >Subject: [BW] Salesii (Sales) Dreier Family > >Hello > >I am new to your list. I'm researching my 3rd >great Grandparents that came from the Grand >Duchy of Baden Salesii Dreier (also listed as >Franz Sales Draier) and his wife Maria Kathatrine Hanser. > >The marriage records to his daughter Sophia to >my 2nd Grandfather Urban Mengwasser in America >shows that she was born in Wendlingen. We know >of two brother that were at the wedding (Daniel >and Charles), but cannot find anything on her family here. > >I currently am trying to trace them back to >Baden and maybe get an understanding of what >happened to the family. I have searched the >FamilySearch site and found that Salesii may >have been married two-three times. The first >wife appears to have been Maria Theresia Koch >her son Daniel was at the wedding of his half >Sister Sophia her mother is listed as Maria >Katharine Hanser listed on her marriage >certificate. However in Family Search it is listed as Afra Maria Hanser. > >Two Children show Afra Maria Hanser as the >Mother all other children show Maria Hanser as the mother. > >Need to confirm who the parents were for Salesii >and if he had two or three wives and who their parents were. ____________________________________________________________ Click here to learn more about nursing jobs. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/PnY6rx9WtgrL50VX6jkO4HsXMBSyP15zzS0qUilj73qwrTT2tDcuI/