Hello Tom, sorry for the confusion. I meant the main archive in Baden "Generallandesarchiv" (GLA) in Karlsruhe where you can find many documents for our research area. BTW: South Baden has a special archive in Freiburg (Freiburg was capital of the state Baden 1947-1952) with the name "Staatsarchiv". And there are few smaller archives of former dominations. Wendelin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fitzsimmons" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 10:11 PM Subject: [Ortenau] Archive? > On reading that a list of soldiers is in the Archive, I went to > > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > then typed DEU-BAD-ORTENAU in the box and got back a search engine > for the list. Nothing shows up about a list of soldiers, so I am > guessing that Wendelin means some other archive. > > Tom Fitzsimmons.

Thanks for the clarification, Wendelin. I visited the excellent archive in beautiful Karlsruhe three years ago and that is where I found Gustav Binz' booklets on growing-up in Mahlberg and Freiburg. My great grandfather, August Binz, was mentioned in one booklet and I was thrilled to read his name there. My wife and I drove our car from a small hotel in Karlsruhe to get a bite to eat, and then found we could not make our way back because of one-way streets and pedestrian-only streets. We finally had to hail a taxi and ask him to drive ahead of us to show us the way!