Greg: If I can interject with a question. Are you trying to find the origin of your ancestor or just the information on the permit(s)? Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "djweber" <djwdjw@ix.netcom.com> To: <deu-bad-ortenau@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [Ortenau] Permission to Emigrate Permit > Greg, > > Six possible answers... > > Wendelin will know and will answer your question. > > Another member of this List may have run into the same question for their > emigrant ancestor from Waltersweier. > > The original permit is on file at the Town Hall of Waltersweier or at a > neighboring town known only to a researcher familiar with the area and the > record-keeping methods of the area. > > The original permit was forwarded to a particular Archive, perhaps > Karlsruhe > or Freiburg and would be available for a cost....again possibly something > known only to a very few German researchers. > > The Permit you want and hundreds of other permits were sold as scrap paper > to a local Paper Mill a hundred or so years ago. Over the centuries paper > has had its cycles of scarcity and in many areas recycled paper was not > and > is not a new Go-Green activity. (Or the Town needed the money from the > sale > of their old papers.) > > Your ancestor left the Grand Duchy without legal authority and no such > Permit exists. > > May we hope that your answer will be from one of the first four thoughts. > > I have seen such documents from areas north of the Ortenau, both in Baden > and in other former Germanic countries. In most cases, they are very > complete in details on the individual, his family, his finances and the > Town > Council willingness to allow the family to emigrate. > > djweber > djwdjw@ix.netcom.com > ------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Hilton" <grhilton@msn.com> > To: <deu-bad-ortenau@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 9:55 PM > Subject: [Ortenau] (no subject) > > > > Where might I find records of the requests for emigration from the town of > Waltersweier near Offenburg that an individual would have needed to get > permission from Germany to move to North America. > > Bernard Vetter of Waltersweier left Baden around 1815-1816. I understand > that these records are often full of information on the individual as all > debts would have had to have been settled before he/she could have left. > > Has anyone seen such records? > > Greg Hilton > > > >