Thanks Jane. Yes, I did have this information. My experience is early marriage records are rather brief with not much information. But you never know. I'll check it out. Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Moore" <jmoore@cmcpc.net> To: "Robert Evensen" <revensen@comcast.net>; "Banat List" <banat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] John Leks Robert, Do you have the marriage information for John & Elisabeth (29 May 1913 in Lake County, Indiana)? If not, do a search for John Lekz on ancestry.com, and it will come up. I don't know whether the original record would have a birth place for John. Jane Moore At 05:37 PM 1/12/2010, Robert Evensen wrote: >Hi Cathy, > >Thanks for all the sites and help. The name Robtbach is very clear on the >registration record. In fact it is printed in block letters, so there is >no >mistaking a European or Gothic script. I went to Dave's site on Banaters >to >the US and found no one with the name Leks. Now this is very strange. >Even >in Ancestry.com it is a rather unusual name as spelled. There are several >families with the name from Poland, but his record says Romania and he is >married to a woman from Großjetscha. I can only assume the spelling is >some >variant of the original German. > >To make the problem more interesting. John Leks's wife is Elisabetha Ott, >daughter of Michael Ott and Barbara Lambing of Großjetscha. In the FB >Großjetscha, Hans Wikete does not know what happened to Elisabetha, so >there >is only a birth date. I found her emigration record from Hamburg on 14 Sep >1906. I don't believe she is listed yet on Dave's list. As soon as I find >her American landing, I will report it to him. So I am feeling comfortable >that John Leks is from Romania. What village is still the question! > >Robert > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Cathy Deschu" <cjdeschu@yahoo.com> >To: "Banat List" <banat@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:31 PM >Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] John Leks > > >I thought I'd mention 3 sites which are helpful finding village names. >Sadly >in Robert's case, I found no Robtbach. There is a family name similar .. >Rohrbach. Perhaps it is something like that. Transcribing from old >handwriting can be very tough. While searching Ellis Island for my >grandparents, there was no one on the list with the village I knew they >came >from in the sites initial search results. But when I actually looked at the >real transcript, I could see the Ellis Island transcriber had mistaken the >2 >first letters for something totally different. Another thing I learned is >if >something "sounds" the same it often is the same, despite their spelling >variation. I've found at least 10 different speilings for Deschu. So give >yourself a little flexibility when searching. > >Here are the links for the 3 sites that might help others .. and even >Robert. > > >There is an online resource for finding villages. It identifies itself as >being for Jewish researchers, but most villages were not only Jewish. It >will find villages with similar spellings or sound throughout eastern >Europe. I found my grandmothers Ukrainian village on it, when no other >resource had. It's worth a try, so I thought I'd mention it. > >http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp > >This is also a handy village name resource. > >http://www.feefhs.org/links/banat/townban.html > >One other resource is > >http://www.dvhh.org/banat/village/index.htm > > >Cathy Deschu in dark, windy 27º Pennsylvania (we're having a heat wave) > >--- On Tue, 1/12/10, Robert Evensen <revensen@comcast.net> wrote: > >From: Robert Evensen <revensen@comcast.net> >Subject: [BANAT-L] John Leks >To: "'Banat List'" <BANAT-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 5:02 PM > >In a 1942 US Draft registration, John Leks lists his birth place as >Robtbach, Romania. Any guess as to where that is? His wife is born in >Großjetscha. > >Robert Evensen > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >BANAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message