Aida, I have no lead document-just the information that he was born in Bohmen to Adam and Barbro Ehrl. This information came from Swedish documents found in Uppsala, Sweden so I assume they are church records. Linda

Linda: Too bad, this is not enough to go on, Bohemia is a large country with many small villages and they could have come from anywhere. If he was a glassblower this would narrow down the area a bit to the mountainous areas. But which ones? Gablonz, now Jablonec, is the most famous glass industry city. But there are also glass makers in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge), the Altvater Mountains, the Riesengebirge. See.... it is impossible to go on such a small lead and you would throw $800 plus away if you don't have more to give to a genealogist than that, because the initial search would be immensely costly. The way I would proceed, Linda, is this: call your neighborhood Mormon church and ask them, if they have a Family Research Center. If they do, go to the clerk and ask her if there is a microfilm on all the Uppsala churches registers. Tell them that you would be interested in going through all the death records looking for an ancestor. There you just may find your link. This will cost you only $3.50 for each microfilm and they have microfilm readers there to be used for free. They also have microfilm copy machines at $0.25 per copy. And with this copy in hand you then can go to a Czech genealogist,and you will have a properly spelled name and maybe a reference to the town where the deceased was born. Even if it is not Simon or Barbora (this would be the Bohemian spelling for a Czech girl, or Barbara for a German girl), that you might find, perhaps you find some other entry of any other spelling of Eherl, Ehrle,etc. perhaps a child that was born to them and had died, because then the parents would be listed also. This would give you a bona fide "lead document." So, up you go to the LDS Family Research Center and focus on Uppsala! Aida --------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: <Scrig@aol.com> To: <GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Ehrl (Erl, Earl, Eherl) Surname > Aida, > I have no lead document-just the information that he was born in Bohmen > to Adam and Barbro Ehrl. This information came from Swedish documents > found > in Uppsala, Sweden so I assume they are church records. > Linda > > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Would you like to see messages that were posted before you joined the > list? To search the archives, go to: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GERMAN-BOHEMIAN >