Thanks Karen, it is good to have two heads thinking.....next to my Dad's factory was the famous Moser glass factory and that is in Western Bohemia on the foot of the Erzgebirge and there are, of course, a whole conglomeration of glass and porcelaine factories along the border. Back home, the hand-cut lead glass is famous world wide and there is even a "Karlsbader Schliff" which is the name of a pattern. But I think Linda's ancestors came to Sweden in the late 1800? But yes, Linda, try the website of Neugablonz and look in their phone book for some Ehrls because then you would have a connection to the Gablonz in Bohemia! VERY good idea, Karen! Aida --------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: <KarenHob@aol.com> To: <GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Ehrl (Erl, Earl, Eherl) Surname > In a message dated 5/11/2006 6:17:17 PM Mountain Standard Time, > Scrig@aol.com > writes: > 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, > > I have not followed this thread very closely. If your ancestor was > associated with glass blowing in Bohemia, there were a number of Bohemian > glass > workers who went to Sweden from the Gablonz area in 1938-39. It is > possible they > chose to go to Sweden (to escape occupation by the Third Reich) because > others > from their area had already settled there in the past. > > One area of glass making that Aida did not mention was in the borderlands > with Bavaria. There were still many glasswerks in that area when I > lived in > Germany in the 1970s. > > I have read about some of these border gassworks. Some made mirrors and > sheet glass and others made stemware and ornamental glassware. The > Bohemian > patterns and more information about Bohemian glassworks is probably all > over the > Internet if you search. > > Many people dislocated from Gablonz area in 1945 ended up in Neu Gabonz > in > Bavaria where they now produce a lot of the same glass bead products for > which > Gablonz was famous in the past. > > You may find someone named Ehrl living in or near Neugablonz if you > search > the German white pages. It is not a rare surname. > > Karen > > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Visit the German-Bohemian Heritage Society Web Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ >