Dave Dreyer, My ignorance is showing. What's a W and K? Why/how would I use it? And where do I find it? Thank you, Charlie Tiller > From: banat-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: BANAT Digest, Vol 5, Issue 202 > To: banat@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:02:40 -0600 > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:51:05 -0700 > From: "Dave Dreyer" <ddreyer@pacbell.net> > Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] DILK message from Harold Bratsko > To: "Banat List" <BANAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <74096D149FC34EFCB0AB7AC37C0C7507@D99J3Q21> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Charle; > Aside from some transit families which had a relatively short tenure in > Hatzfeld there was little internal migration from other Banat localities > into Hatzfeld. This was true of other Banat localities settled in this > period 1768-1778. Actually, Hatzfeld, as the population expanded, was the > source of many families who settled the daughter villages along the lower > Thiess. > As to your other point. There are a variety of reasons why the place of > origin on many of the original settlers is obscure. First of all, record > keeping was not all that exact. If you look at KBs for German localities in > the 18th century you find the same problem. This is an old problem in > German research. One finds that the family one is studying suddenly stops > as you work backwards and there is no indication of where they came from. > To solve this problem one usually starts looking in the adjacent villages > and starts to pay attention to the flow of populations. If it was not for W > and K Banat research would be much more difficult, but not everyone was > registered in Wien or some registration record did not survive. Some > settlers to the Banat came overland and did not travel through Wien. Place > of origin may seem an obvious piece of information to record for us but > really how important would it be on the part of the church? If you have > ever looked at any church records here in the U. S., good luck if you can > find a place of origin indicated. > Back to W and K. W and K was compiled by students from the original > records. Apparently, these students would come to an entry from time to > time which was unreadable or at least difficult to read and they would skip > such entries. Apparently this was discovered much later when someone sat > down and compared W and K with the original records. > Dave Dreyer