Hi Marlene, I actually found the records for my grreat great grandmother in those IGI records. Through those records we learned that her father was from Gros-Karben. She had actually listed Frankfurt as his birthplace on the census record. The first researcher that I worked with actually was going to do more investigating for me in Kircheimbolanden. From what she told me, Peter Tork (remember the Monkees???) had ancestry from there. Small world! Bev W -----Original Message----- From: Marleen Van Horne <msvnhrn@jps.net> To: hesse <hesse@rootsweb.com> Sent: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 3:02 pm Subject: Re: [HESSE] Jumping to conclusions Regarding Kirscheimbolenden: I have ancestors from Ilbesheim Kirscheimbolenden. The church records ave been transcribed and are available through the IGI on amilysearch.org. The trick is that you have to do an IGI batch search n the surname to find every one of a specific surname in the church ecords. There are three sets of information: Batch Numbers: J989001 = male baptisms L989001 = female baptisms M989001 = marriages To get to this information, go to the website above. Scroll down to the ottom of the page. In small print there is a link to the old amilysearch. When you get the form, click on advanced search, then lick on IGI. Fill in the last name, and Germany and Bayern. Put one f the above batch numbers in the BATCH box. You will get all the ntries under that surname. I was able to take my Emerick ancestors back to 1650 or so, and found he names of the wives and their families. I have actually seen the microfilm for these church records. The riginal is in very bad shape, and stained, so that whole areas were nreadable. It seems to me that there are many more records available ow, than there were when I first looked at these records. It would ppear that the Library has used some enhancements on the film to bring ut more information. Marleen Van Horne ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message

The IGI was riddled with mistakes on my German family, so I would use it as another tool, but not the final word. Get the actual documents. Familysearch.org is rapidly uploading records, it's wonderful. But it's people like me transcribing, and others double checking, and mistakes are still made. I wouldn't trust only that as the final word on my family either. The family stories crack me up! But I've found with all our family stories that there is always an element that is correct - might be very small but you can see it and partly how these stories grew and were embellished. Susan Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:01 PM, user917826@aol.com wrote: > > Hi Marlene, > > I actually found the records for my grreat great grandmother in those IGI records. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marleen Van Horne <msvnhrn@jps.net> > To: hesse <hesse@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 3:02 pm > Subject: Re: [HESSE] Jumping to conclusions > > > Regarding Kirscheimbolenden: > I have ancestors from Ilbesheim Kirscheimbolenden. The church records > ave been transcribed and are available through the IGI on > amilysearch.org. The trick is that you have to do an IGI batch search > n the surname to find every one of a specific surname in the church > ecords. There are three sets of information: > Batch Numbers: > J989001 = male baptisms > L989001 = female baptisms > M989001 = marriages > To get to this information, go to the website above. Scroll down to the > ottom of the page. In small print there is a link to the old > amilysearch. When you get the form, click on advanced search, then > lick on IGI. Fill in the last name, and Germany and Bayern. Put one > f the above batch numbers in the BATCH box. You will get all the > ntries under that surname. > I was able to take my Emerick ancestors back to 1650 or so, and found > he names of the wives and their families. > I have actually seen the microfilm for these church records. The > riginal is in very bad shape, and stained, so that whole areas were > nreadable. It seems to me that there are many more records available > ow, than there were when I first looked at these records. It would > ppear that the Library has used some enhancements on the film to bring > ut more information. > Marleen Van Horne > > ------------------------------ > o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com > ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > he message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message