Marvin: If you can find time, I am looking for the surname of Zang b. 1795c. in Goldbach, Bavaria. Thank you. Dottie On 01/02/14, Marvin Hoerig<mhoerig@wi.rr.com> wrote: I now have some statistics that were gleaned from the list of prisoners held in Fort A at Rastatt during the Baden Revolution in 1848 and 1849. Some are rather surprising but most were to be expected. There were 38, 432 Prisoners on the list There were 37,552 that claimed to be Deutsch There were 53 home countries listed There were 37,198 towns and villages listed There were 177 females There are several hundred records that have no given name listed There only 7,080 prisoners with their ages listed The youngest prisoner with an age listed was 14 The oldest prisoner with an age listed was 77 There were 34,653 prisoners from Baden, Bayern had 576, France 177, Hessen-Darmstadt 350, Hessen-Kassel 463, Prussia 344, Württemberg 549, and less than a hundred each from all the other countries. There were 3 prisoners from the USA and 3 from England. I suspect that these 38,432 guys were less than thrilled at being incarcerated. No doubt they were less that forthcoming about the personal information given to their jailers. The small numbers of records that have ages listed makes it difficult for genealogists to identify ancestors. Most records have a town of residence listed but that is not necessarily where the prisoner was born. There is a column for place of birth which is used far less than the residence column. In the lookups I have done, I have not included any marriage information because most answers recorded are the same; single-NO - married-No - - impossible to tell which may be correct. I still do look-ups but only for one surname per email. I no longer do Face Book and will not answer requests for look-ups sent to the BW list. I will answer all requests as my time permits and in the order received, but only if sent to my email address and the word "Prisoners" is on the subject line. (this is to keep List Administrators happy) I will send (to your email address only - not to BW list) a list of towns and villages if I can figure out how to narrow it down to a manageably size. In the future, I hope to be able to do residence look-ups in addition to the surname look-ups. There is a lot of great information here but not for every one of the prisoners. I have answered several hundred requests over the past few years and am aware of only a half dozen or so cases of toppled "brick walls". I console myself by thinking I just wasn't notified of some of the successes. Marvin Hoerig in WI [1]mhoerif@wi.rr.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BADEN[2]-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:mhoerif@wi.rr.com 2. mailto:-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com

Dottie, Only one Zang on the list. He was an Albert from St. Leon, Baden. Sorry, Marvin Hoerig in WI -------------------------------------------------- From: <dottiew2@verizon.net> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 2:08 PM To: <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com> Subject: [BW] Baden Revolution Prisoners > > Marvin: > If you can find time, I am looking for the surname of Zang b. 1795c. in > Goldbach, Bavaria. > Thank you. > Dottie > > > On 01/02/14, Marvin Hoerig<mhoerig@wi.rr.com> wrote: > > I now have some statistics that were gleaned from the list of prisoners > held > in Fort A at Rastatt during the Baden Revolution in 1848 and 1849. Some > are > rather surprising but most were to be expected. > There were 38, 432 Prisoners on the list > There were 37,552 that claimed to be Deutsch > There were 53 home countries listed > There were 37,198 towns and villages listed > There were 177 females > There are several hundred records that have no given name listed > There only 7,080 prisoners with their ages listed > The youngest prisoner with an age listed was 14 > The oldest prisoner with an age listed was 77 > There were 34,653 prisoners from Baden, Bayern had 576, France 177, > Hessen-Darmstadt 350, Hessen-Kassel 463, Prussia 344, Württemberg 549, > and > less than a hundred each from all the other countries. There were 3 > prisoners from the USA and 3 from England. > I suspect that these 38,432 guys were less than thrilled at being > incarcerated. No doubt they were less that forthcoming about the > personal > information given to their jailers. The small numbers of records that > have > ages listed makes it difficult for genealogists to identify ancestors. > Most > records have a town of residence listed but that is not necessarily > where > the prisoner was born. There is a column for place of birth which is > used > far less than the residence column. In the lookups I have done, I have > not > included any marriage information because most answers recorded are the > same; single-NO - married-No - - impossible to tell which may be > correct. > I still do look-ups but only for one surname per email. I no longer do > Face > Book and will not answer requests for look-ups sent to the BW list. I > will > answer all requests as my time permits and in the order received, but > only > if sent to my email address and the word "Prisoners" is on the subject > line. > (this is to keep List Administrators happy) I will send (to your email > address only - not to BW list) a list of towns and villages if I can > figure > out how to narrow it down to a manageably size. In the future, I hope to > be > able to do residence look-ups in addition to the surname look-ups. > There is a lot of great information here but not for every one of the > prisoners. I have answered several hundred requests over the past few > years > and am aware of only a half dozen or so cases of toppled "brick walls". > I > console myself by thinking I just wasn't notified of some of the > successes. > Marvin Hoerig in WI > [1]mhoerif@wi.rr.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN[2]-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > References > > 1. mailto:mhoerif@wi.rr.com > 2. mailto:-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > 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