-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Ceal Wutka <ceal@wutka.com> An: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com <BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com> Datum: Samstag, 22. Januar 2000 19:46 Betreff: [BAVARIA] Confusing cities >I found my gggrandmother in the IGI and her place of birth is >Oberlauterbach, Oberb, Bayern. I sent an email to the geo server and in the >reponse were these two towns: > >Oberlauterbach >Part of: Wolnzach >GKZ : 09 1 86 162 >County : | | +---- Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm {PAF} >RegBez : | +------- Oberbayern >Land : +--------- Bayern >ZIP : 85283 >Popul : 232 >Locat : (Wolnzach) 48d36m N 11d38m E >Maps : TK25 7435 Pfaffenhofen > TK50 L7534 Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm > Euro Md57 > > >Oberlauterbach (Kr Schrobenhausen) >Part of: Aresing >GKZ : 09 1 85 113 >County : | | +---- Neuburg a d Donau {ND} >RegBez : | +------- Oberbayern >Land : +--------- Bayern >ZIP : 86561 >Popul : 230 >Locat : (Aresing) 48d32m N 11d18m E >Maps : TK25 7433 Schrobenhausen > TK50 L7532 Schrobenhausen > Euro Mb57 > >How do I determine which of these is the town I want? Basically, you have to search for your ancestors in both places. But, I would check, whether the family name you are searching for, still exists in one of those places and then start there. Except if it is a very common name. >I am confused by these >results. When I did a search on Mapquest, I had five results for this town >name of Oberlauterbach, all of them ssw of Berlin by different mileage >amounts. Surely there were not 5 towns named the same within a small area? Small is relative. Paricularely when you look at it from thousands of miles away. Regards Georg Paulus, Bavaria