Always keep your eyes open is a good advice! I have also come across a lot of church book entries with wrong dates, wrong ages, names and birth places that took a lot of research to get solved. But the greatest riddle of all I could solve last year. And you won¹t believe it, in the Official Hungarian civil birth register in Szigetvar in my 1911 born great grandmother¹s entry is written in the wrong father. It took me two years, dozens of e-Mails and letters, many speculations and ideas (but because of this riddle, I got in contact with far relatives, new informations and unknown photographies) until I could compare it with her baptism entry. In this it is written in the correct father, same age, same profession, same residence as the wrong one. I can only guess, why the writer of the civil register wrote in Gusztáv Horváth as father instead of Agoston Dsida. But I know now, why my family was not able to get her birth certificate after her death, as she is listed in the official civil register as Erszébet Horváth instead of Erszébet Dsida. ;) But also the same advice, don¹t always believe everything, that is written down. Where people work, there happen mistakes. Good luck for all researches! Liebe Grüße, Daniela Am 18.01.18, 15:17 schrieb "DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES on behalf of Bastian Dornbach via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES" unter <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]>: >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 didn¹t match with the data from the German >church books (e.g. wrong name of my ancestor¹s 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 didn¹t 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