For many years I have been looking for Anton Späth born 1831 in Baden. Would this fellow in Baden have way to narrow my search? He came to America in1851. Thanks for any help on this brick wall. Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "djweber" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 9:06 AM Subject: [Ortenau] Ortenau Information > At various times, I have forwarded information that your List Administrator > who lives in Baden has added new details at the Source site of < > http://ortenau.speedyspace.de/search/ >. He continues to add lists of > information for us at that site. > > In addition, many of us, may have books or information on the Ortenau or on > certain towns within the Ortenaukreis. While some of our sources are too > complicated to obtain short lists of information, other of those sources may > have vital details which could help others with interest in the same town or > in one of the identified surnames. > > Would we please search in our own Town reference books to see if we might > have any such valuable information which we could forward to the List so our > List Administrator might add that information to the companion "Source" web > page. > > Check your own reference books. We have no desire to impinge on any > copyright but short lists obtained and identified as from a certain book or > source normally would be permissible and could be very helpful to others on > this Ortenau List. Send your information to the List and let Wendelin > handle the conversion to the "Source" page. > > Currently, that Source page offers links for: > Ortssippenbücher (Kinship Books) Index.... > Altenheim > Dundenheim > Ichenheim (partial Index) > Kippenheimweiler > Müllen > Schutterzell > > Auswanderer (emigrants).... > Aus den Memoiren einer alten Offenburgerin > Diersburg > Hofweier > Niederschopfheim > Nordrach > Prinzbach und Schönberg > Schutterwald > > Andere Quellen (other sources).... > Ortsarchive (Town archives) > Teilnehmer an Napoleons Feldzug 1812 (soldiers for Napoleon) > Achern - Kirchensteuerliste (churchtax list) 1666 > Diersburg - Familiennamen (surnames) > Durbach - Familiennamen (surnames) > Gamshurst - Geschichte der Pfarrei > Hofweier - Familiennamen (surnames) > Hornberg - Bauernhöfe (farms) 1471-1590 > Hugsweier - Bürger (citizen) 1793 > Niederschopfheim - Familiennamen (surnames) > Niederschopfheim - Heiraten, Tote 1690-1717 (marriages, deaths) > Nußbach - Kirchenbuch (parish record) 1645 > Önsbach - Archiv (town archiv) > Zunftmitglieder (member of guilds) in Offenburg 1705-1714 > Renchen - Familiennamen (surnames) > Steinach - Familiennamen (surnames) > Bürgerverzeichnis des ehemaligen Amtes Willstätt 1590 > Hausinschriften im Hanauerland (house inscriptions in Hanauer country) > Windschläg - Familiennamen (surnames) > Dokumente von Kloster Wittichen (documents of cloister Wittichen > Bürgerverzeichnis von Zell a. H. > Calendertool (Julian to Gregorian / Gregorian to Julian) > > GEDCOM.... > Vorfahren Maria Anna Zapf.GED (50 kb) > Genealogische Daten aus Biberach und Umgebung (Kurt Erlemann) > > Other towns.... > Familiennamen von (familynames of) Rastatt > > ----- > > djweber > [email protected] > > > > > > > > ==== DEU-BAD-ORTENAU Mailing List ==== > List your surnames at the Ortenau Search web site > < http://ortenau.speedyspace.de/search/ >. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >

Bruce, Your question is certainly a main reason that Wendelin has set up so many addition/companion web pages for we on the Ortenau List. His hopes are to offer details and potential answers which we might never find in our own searches. I understand that much of the additional information available to us has come from history books and records available in the Ortenaukreis area. His request which I put on-line was the hope that we might have additional bits of information from purchased town books or other sources so that we could help others on this List. I am certain that you have done everything possible in US church records, court records, naturalization records, newspaper articles, death and cemetery records and every other US potential source to find some indication of the town in Baden from where your ancestor Anton Späth emigrated. US records are the best source to pinpoint one ancestor. Many of us have found our answer in US records; many of us may still be searching for a Baden location. From the message which welcomes each of us to this List, I quote "We merely hope that each of the members by sharing knowledge, by sharing investigative methods, by sharing results within this smaller land area may give help to all the members." That is what we are here for and hopefully some detail in one privately-owned sources given to the List for the companion web site may help another on the List. I would ask you if you have found Anton Späth's record in the LDS filmed Baden Emigration Index? As the necessary title is not the easiest to remember to search in the LDS catalog, I would suggest < http://www.websters.net/blackforest/didyouknow.html > as a lead in. Only about fifty percent of the emigrants applied for permission to leave so this is not a complete index of the emigrants. The on-line Auswanderer List (Glatzle/Müller index; Müller for the Baden emigrants) is still a work in progress and with luck, maybe. This project, in part, has been hosted by the Faculty for Informatics of the University of Applied Science in Karlsruhe and substantial information is on-line; it is just not complete. I have much more faith in the Baden Emigration Index but the Auswanderer List is a tool for use. For a quick look, that URL is < http://auswanderer2.lad-bw.de:8080/auswanderer/deutsch/index.htm >. If the German language instructions at this page appear confusing, "Sie Ihre Vorfahren", "Suchformular" and "Anfrage Senden" are your key words for clicking away link by link to find an individual....of course, after listing the name between the Suchformular and Anfrage Senden actions. I guess the idea is to find out where you have gone, what you searched for and if Wendelin or any of the List members can help you. djweber [email protected] ---------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce A. Spade" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [Ortenau] Ortenau Information > For many years I have been looking for Anton Späth born 1831 in Baden. > Would this fellow in Baden have way to narrow my search? > He came to America in1851. > Thanks for any help on this brick wall. > Bruce >

To all list members: Apparently there has been a slight change in the URL for the Baden and Württemberg emigration site. The correct address is now: http://auswanderer2.lad-bw.de/auswanderer/deutsch/index.htm The old address had :8080 in it. George | |The on-line Auswanderer List (Glatzle/Müller index; Müller for the Baden |emigrants) is still a work in progress and with luck, maybe. This project, |in part, has been hosted by the Faculty for Informatics of the University of |Applied Science in Karlsruhe and substantial information is on-line; it is |just not complete. I have much more faith in the Baden Emigration Index but |the Auswanderer List is a tool for use. | |For a quick look, that URL is < |http://auswanderer2.lad-bw.de:8080/auswanderer/deutsch/index.htm >. If the |German language instructions at this page appear confusing, "Sie Ihre |Vorfahren", "Suchformular" and "Anfrage Senden" are your key words for |clicking away link by link to find an individual....of course, after listing |the name between the Suchformular and Anfrage Senden actions.

George, Thank you! When one is as old as I am, change is not expected but you are completely correct a change has been made in the Auswanderer URL. The old address is dead and only < http://auswanderer2.lad-bw.de/auswanderer/deutsch/index.htm > works now. Maybe I should look for more ancestors and I might stay current on those web sites. djweber [email protected]