This is very good advice. It is very true that many of the Ortsbuchs have incorrect and missing information. There are even mistakes in the church books which take a little bit of detective work to figure out. My father's uncle Imre, which he talked of often couldn't be found in the church books - I looked and looked over and over again. All the siblings were there - but no Imre. I did however find one with a different father's name and after searching the ENTIRE church books found there was NO other father/man with that particular name - hmmm, then I noticed the house number, Ah ha....there it was the same house number on all the other siblings records but the priest had recorded the father's name incorrectly - oh brother. So yes, check you facts - and double check them - no matter what the source is!!! Eve On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:17 AM, Bastian Dornbach via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to share some thoughts about all the lookups and roll calls: > As convenient as it might look to just receive all information from books, > please always be aware that information might not be correct. > > > > From my own experience I know that e.g. the Tschanad Family book has a lot > of flaws (wrong date of death, wrong conclusions about parents,…). > Furthermore regarding my early ancestors who came from the Holy Roman > Empire of German Nations (Germany) into the Banat, the author from the > Tschanad Family book just copied the information from Stader, Treude etc. – > which was also wrong. > > > > That led to me making wrong assumptions and finally standing there without > ancestors, because the people who were supposed to have left Germany to the > Banat in 1765 DID NOT leave their home town – and also died there. > > > > There were two people with the same name in the village, who both had a > son that also had the same name, both born only four months apart in 1764 > (I know! What a coincidence!). > > > > Treude just picked the wrong one, even though the data given in the church > books in Tschanad then didn’t match with the data from the German church > books (e.g. wrong name of my ancestor’s wife that also died already in > Germany right after giving birth to the son – so there was no way she lived > and died in Tschanad then. Furthermore, the name of the wife that died in > Tschanad didn’t match with the name of the wife in Germany). > > > > Only by going into the church record by myself (better said, with the help > of Sorin in Tschanad and an archivist in Germany), I was able to solve the > puzzle about who stayed in Germany and went into the Banat. > > > Always keep your eyes open! > > > Bastian > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Syrmia Regional Coordinator http://www.dvhh.org/syrmia