Dear Dave et al, Below, I've pasted your and Amy's messages of a couple of weeks ago, regarding Ernsthausen records. Since you do get periodic requests about Ernsthausen, I'm wondering how we might identify ourselves centrally and hopefully get to a critical mass, re funding some retrieval work in Vojvodina? As you suggest, if the cost would be in the $2,000 range, and we could get together 20 or more people, $100 or less per person might be getting into an affordable range. Who it would be who went there is another question on which I'd appreciate your insights. Regards, Marilyn PS, compliments to Rosina Schmidt and Dave Preston, through whose efforts I enjoyed your presentation on the St. Hubert Museum, and look forward to watching the other films as time permits -- especially on strudel! Message: 4 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:29:36 -0700 From: "Dave Dreyer" <ddreyer@pacbell.net> Subject: [BANAT-L] Ernsthausen records To: "Banat List" <BANAT-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <8448BC6E00F74331B28FBD24B455D745@D99J3Q21> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Amy; I get an inquiry about Ernsthausen research and its records about every month or two. There are a fair number of researchers who are interested in these records. The information that Bruck gives about the location of the Ernsthausen records is essentially correct. I would differ on his comments about the archives. >From what I have heard over the years they are not user friendly and not well organized. It is my understanding that filming of the records with a digital camera is not permitted and that copies cost about a Euro/page. In spite of these obstacles it is likely a determined researcher could get copies of the records. It only makes sense for Ernsthausen researchers coordinate their efforts and attempt to obtain a complete set of the records so that eventually a family book could be written. The birth,marriage and death records 1860-1900 probably amount to ca 1000-1500 pages. Even at $1.00/page the total cost would be about $2000. If this cost were shared among all those interested in the records it would not be a prohibitive amount for any one individual. It only requires an individual who will do what it takes to organize this effort and do what it takes to acquire the records, which may require a trip to Neu Satz and sit in the archives until the records are forthcomi! ng. Dave Dreyer ----- Original Message ----- From: Amy Nichols To: 'Dave Dreyer' Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 7:51 PM Subject: Ernsthausen Hi Dave, Since you seem to be so familiar with all the Familienbuchs in the works, I thought I would ask you a question about Ernsthausen, if you don't mind. Twelve years ago Nicholas Bruck sent out the following email to the list: The records for Ernsthausen from 1860 to 1900 are in the archives of the Vojvodina in Novi Sad. The address for these archives is as follows: Pavle Stanojevic, Director Archiv Vojvodine Dunavska Ulitza 35 Novi Sad, Yugoslavia Telephone (38121) 21-244 Fax (38121) 22-332 They have centralized in this archive the catholic church records from the towns where the catholic churches were closed and we really should undertake an effort perhaps via the Mormons to have all these records microfilmed or photocopied. This archive is located in the rear of the building of the Museum of Novi Sad, quite in the Center of this capital city for the Vojvodina. I visited the place last month and Marlog Miroslav, the officer in the archive, explained that we would need to contact the Minister of Culture of the Vojvodina in Novi Sad to get access to these records. The place seems to be well organized and administered and they have both microfilm equipment and photocopy machines. If you still have anybody in Ernsthausen or in other places in Yugoslavia, they can go to these archives and copy out of these books the data you need. Particularly of you know the name and the year of individuals, then this task is considerably simplified. I looked at the site that lists all the Familienbuchs that are being worked on, but did not see anything for Ernsthausen. So I was just curious if you might know if anyone ever was able to microfilm these records or if you've heard anything that might be in the works for this village? I know that the Sartscha book contains some information from Ernsthausen, but that only seems to be a small number of the actual records that seem to be floating somewhere out there. I hope you're having a good night! I know how busy you must be and I really do appreciate all the help you've given me! Amy ------------------------------