Dear sirs, I just recently read the attached mail, and I am very happy that persons like Betty could have find their ancestors. I also have a long time searching for my grandma Maria Fahlbusch, that was born in Germany but I dont have the exactly place, and I can´t get information about her, but maybe if Betty can give the Church´s address where she went or something that can help me. I will we very gratefully regards Gabriela Bdhery@aol.com wrote: De: Bdhery@aol.com Fecha: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:10:52 EDT Asunto: Re: [HESSE] Fürth Evangelical Records Para: HESSE-L@rootsweb.com I have researched my famly for many years, and just recently returned from four weeks in Germany and surrounding countries. Since 1995, I knew where I needed to obtain information, but due to things between the LDS (Morman Church) and the German Archives, We cannot obtain them except one record at a time at a cost of almost $100.00. They refuse to let the LDS copy their records due to to their baptising them into the LDS faith. The only way to obtain the information is have someone do it for you. It is a shame that they could not be made avaliable to us. The Evangelical state Archives in Hessen is the only way to find the old church records. I wished for years read everything that I could and now I have what I need and want. I went to Germany and got it. The state Church Archives, is hard t find. I went in circles for 30 minutes and could not find it, finally got a map from a service station and found dead end streets and some not wide enough but for one car and they do park cars on the sidewalk also. Many streets are still cobblestone. I will contact Rootsweb, and write a story about my research and I think they will put it in the Newsletter that arrives every week. I love the newsletter, because it tells of other people's finds and can help us do our own research at times. I have read it for eight years. We all want to research our families both unknown and the famous. The famous people have the money to have someone do their research and the poor people sit and wish. Well after my Husbands death last year I could not get away, to do my research. In May of this year I made arrangements to fly to Hessen, Frankfurt, Germany and drive to Kassel and found family and had a wonderful family reunion, and found records back to 1654. Things that I had wished for for the past 14 years, and knew that they had to be there. My grgr grandfather was a Hessian Soldier and I found him in the book Hetrina, there are two volums and are in alphibical order and then miscellaneous misses at the end of each. Many people who have family that arrived in USA in 1775 to 1790 could be Hessians who deserted from the troups. England recrited the King of Germany to conscript these young men and send them to help fight for the rights of England. If you know history, you will have already known this. I loved the small villages so much and the look of Germany that I will be returning there in August, September and part of October of 2005. I am a 73 year widow, and have done research for many years. I am not a professional, but am well versed on Genealogy, lectured and taught it, and started a group that is now a genealogical society. If you do not belong to a society, please do. you can learn so much from others and enhance your own research. I have known since 1990 who my family was in Germany and basically where they originated from. I now have records that will take me a long time to get into my computer, and family that will eventually come to the United States to Visit, and see what we look like and return home to their beautiful country. Betty ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== Going on Vacation? Longer than 4 days? Go to http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/HESSE.html to unsubscribe --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Todo lo que quieres saber de Estados Unidos, América Latina y el resto del Mundo. Visíta Yahoo! Noticias.