Dennis Benarz wrote: > Hi Marie > > While baptismal records usually provide correct spellings and are indeed > very interesting (for me, primarily because they contain the names of the > godparents who were often extended family members), I rely on parish > marriage entries to provide a broad foundation of firm family information. Dennis, Oh, for sure, a church marriage record can provide the best info (names of parents, date/place of birth, witnesses who were usually related to the bride/groom), sometimes baptismal records of children born in the US to parents who were married in the "old country" can be a better resource for providing where the immigrant parents were born. Or if you're really unlucky like me, the danged church marriage record for your immigrant ggps only says that he married her on this date and these witnesses were present, and the baptismal records for their children (same parish) say the child born to these parents was baptized on this date and these are the godparents' names. Not even the country of birth on any of the records! <g> -Marie