Thank you, Marvin, for the look-up. Dottie On 01/04/14, Marvin Hoerig<mhoerig@wi.rr.com> wrote: Dottie, Only one Zang on the list. He was an Albert from St. Leon, Baden. Sorry, Marvin Hoerig in WI -------------------------------------------------- From: <[1]dottiew2@verizon.net> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 2:08 PM To: <[2]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<[3]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][4]mhoerif@wi.rr.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN[2][5]-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > References > > 1. [6]mailto:mhoerif@wi.rr.com > 2. [7]mailto:-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN[8]-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[9]-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:dottiew2@verizon.net 2. mailto:baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com 3. mailto:mhoerig@wi.rr.com 4. mailto:mhoerif@wi.rr.com 5. mailto:-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com 6. mailto:mhoerif@wi.rr.com 7. mailto:-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com 8. mailto:-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com 9. mailto:-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com