Tomas, I have recently found my Waldeck family. The surname was uncommon, Götting, which made my search easier than most. Using Ancestry, Footnote and the Ellis Isle and Castle Garden sites, I finally found the naturalization application for someone with this surname on which he indicated that he was from Wellen. There happened to be 2 Wellens in Germany, but my immigrant indicated, on the ships manifest, that he was from Waldeck. So, I assumed that he was from Wellen, Waldeck, and contacted the pastor in that village. She sent me 2 pages from the ortsippenbuch with contained my Göttings. She also referred me to someone in the village who is a member of a local history group. I wrote to the pastor in English, which was fine. The historian clearly found someone to translate for him. Good luck. Brenda In a message dated 6/12/2009 5:43:28 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Tomas, >From a previous similar query of mine it was indicated that although the records for villages in the Principality of Waldeck appear to exist, because OSBs (ortssippenbuch) has been published for many villages, the church records have not been allowed to be microfilmed by the LDS. (From information I have from the LDS, the percent of microfilmed records for Waldeck is around 4%.) This usually means that a local genealogist needs to be hired to access the records. You will need to find the exact village name in Waldeck, to continue your search. At 02:00 AM 6/12/2009, you wrote: >From: Bobbi <[email protected]> >Subject: [HESSE] Re: M?ller - Hutton - Waldeck - Liverpool >To: [email protected] > >Try familysearch.org to see if they have filmed the church books. >In the library catalog, try doing a keyword or place search. > >Bobbi > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tomas Christie" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:08 PM >Subject: Re: [HESSE] M?ller - Hutton - Waldeck - Liverpool > > >Thank you Don. I have done all the basic research possible in Liverpool, but >I tried to keep the information in my request as simple as possible. Rosalia >M?ller always declared herself to have been born in Waldeck and I had hoped >that there might be some record of her birth or baptism there. We know she >still had family there but don't know anything about who they were - except >that there was probably a brother. We don't know how or when she came to >Liverpool or how she met Henry Mark Hutton. >In Liverpool she certainly didn't follow the Catholic faith so would have >been more likely to have been from a Lutheran family. > >The story of her father having been an officer is likely to be true as there >is a small portrait that is believed to be him. > >I really need any help and guidance of how to go about a search in Germany. > >Thank you. > >Tomas Christie ____________________________________________________________ Click for top financial advice. Reduce debt & save for retirement. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/BLSrjpYVtyGQgWgVw10ePr6R1r5kK WkhJlJdZaA5jra6WqNOGKJB1mTApI8/ ------------------------------- 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 **************Download the AOL Classifieds Toolbar for local deals at your fingertips. (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolclassifieds/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000004)