Hi Dorothy, Thanks for getting back to me. I found my ggf on the same records and he was buried from that same church! Bur, my ggf wasn't a member of the church and he was buried as a non-Quaker at the Darby Friends Burial Ground - no headstone because he wasn't a member. He died in 1886. Isabelle On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Dorothy Klein <scubamama@aol.com> wrote: > > Isabelle, > > It was on Ancestry under Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. Last year > about this time Ancestry added that database of records from the > Pennsylvania Historical Society. My relatives were found in the St James > Evangelical Church Records, however I have never been able to find their > graves. My great grandmother's burial was in Milltown, Montgomery County > according to St James, but according to Philadelphia Death Records it was > Summerville, Montgomery County. My great grandfather had no burial place > listed and there is no death record for him although he died in 1884. His > daughter who died two months before him was listed in St James as being > buried in Milltown, Montgomery County, but her Philly Death record says > Cheltenham, Montgomery County. Sometimes when one door opens another closes. > > Dottie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Isabelle Addis <ikaddis@gmail.com> > To: baden-wurttemberg <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thu, Feb 13, 2014 5:15 pm > Subject: Re: [BW] BADEN-WURTTEMBERG Digest, Vol 9, Issue 39 > > > Hi, please tell me the name of the Philadelphia church. > Thanks, Isabelle > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Dottie Klein <scubamama@aol.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Tom > > After many years searching for my great grandparents and where they came > > from in Wurttemberg I found their church in Philadelphia. The church > > included their villages in their death listing! I thought I had died and > > gone to heaven. It opened up so many records. > > I struggled and failed with the Old German records, but then learned > there > > was an Ortsippenbuch, which I probably, misspelled available. I bought it > > and it made things so much easier. They came from Schopfloch and > > Oberiflingen. > > Thanks again for your info! > > Dottie > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Feb 13, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Tom Kuehn <kuehngenes@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Dottie, I just got lucky. > > > > > > A person in Northern Germany found my website and contacted me about a > > > sister-in-law to one of my ancestors. We exchanged information, and > > struck > > > up a friendship. He was instrumental in interceding on my behalf, > > > contacting a researcher in Baden, and then he also contacted a museum > > that > > > covered Weingarten archives. And he helped translate the old German > > script. > > > > > > I would not know how to find a person to help, and how to communicate > > with > > > them. In my efforts, the person in Germany writes to me in German and I > > > respond in English and it works out quite well - thanks to translation > > > software. The trick is reading the old German script and rewriting it > in > > > current German. Baden script I could not read, but Weingarten is not as > > > difficult. > > > > > > Bottom line, the person found me because he found value in what I had > > > posted publicly of my website. I reciprocated by helping him with USA > > > research, and I sent him a book published associated with church in > > > Southwestern Missouri that had stories about the German immigrants > > > including the one he had inquired about. > > > > > > The real trick is that you have to find the place your ancestor came > > from - > > > which I did know from cemetery and other records in the St. Louis area. > > > Working backward got me to Germany. It is all pick and shovel work! > > > > > > The most important thing is to find the town they come from in Germany. > > > Obituary records often help, but what is listed as from Germany, is > > > sometimes Alsace-Lorraine because the person died while that area was > > > occupied by Germany. Then searching church book records page by page > (no > > > index) you can find family members. > > > > > > Another tool that I learned of from the local Family History Center is > a > > > series of books called "Map Guide to German Parish Registers: Kingdom > of > > > Württemberg by Kevan M. Hansen. It maps out the Districts of the > Kingdom > > > with Parish / Town Cross reference tables for each completed district. > > Not > > > all districts are completed yet. The two districts I was interested in > > > were: Donaukreis (which includes Ravensburg -> Weingarten), and > > Neckarkreis > > > (which includes Grand Duchy of Baden). As I recall the maps relate to > the > > > 1871 timeframe for Kingdom of Württemberg. > > > > > > Hope that helps. > > > Tom > > > > > >> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Dottie Klein <scubamama@aol.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Tom > > >> Great info! I was wondering how you found someone in BW to research > the > > >> emigration records. I know the places they emigrated from but would > > love to > > >> learn more. > > >> Thanks > > >> Dottie > > >> > > >> Sent from my iPhone > > >> > > >> ------------------------------- > > >> 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 > > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >