Dan Bravard wrote: > DJW and Brian: > > I have the rolls in question on permanent loan at my local FHC and > would be quite willing to look up a few entries. However, with the > rather lengthy description below could you summarize what you want me > to look up? It would make things easier for me. > >> ...As for the marriage of the parents, without the baptismal record >> identifying the exact parents, there is no roll of film which would >> help. Also, we >> don't know if your Louise Kiefer was the first or the fifteenth child >> born >> of the marriage so we don't know how long the parents were married >> prior to >> her 1844 birth. >> >> However, from another index, this time for marriages, we do know that in >> 1843 a Bernard (probably Bernhard) Kiefer and a Monica Reinbold (perhaps >> Rheinbold) were married in Urloffen but in the prior several years, >> other >> Kiefer males married women named Maria Anna, Maria Anna and Maria >> Magdalena. >> We are still at the point where you need to research those Urloffen >> films >> unless someone on this List or through Dan's contacts happens to have a >> connection for you. > I'm not sure of much about my gggmother Louise Kiefer (Frohbesen), except maybe, possibly, there is a chance that she was: Born in Jun 1844, lived in Urloffen, Offenburg, Baden until ~1851-1854 then lived in Lower East-Side Manhattan (E Houston St.) after marrying around 1860 to Georg Frohbesen/Frobesen/Frohbessen and was buried 22 July, 1919. Thanks, Brian D.