Now I'm really confused. Heinrich was born in Sandlofs as was his father. I know that he was born in Sandlof because I have his birth registration. So that's why I thought maybe it meant he had reached the age of majority. So what would recent citizen mean in this case???? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ginni Morey from Campbell CA Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society Web Master: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cascchgs/ Personal Home page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~reinwald mailto: GLMorey@earthlink.net <mailto:GLMorey@earthlink.net> -----Original Message----- From: 7iron@gmx.de [mailto:7iron@gmx.de] Sent: 08 August, 2003 2:33 PM To: HESSE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HESSE] Citizen No, Ginni. It just means that he has recently moved to the town and is living there now. Think you confused "Citizen of Germany" with "Citizen of Sandlofs". Heinz ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== Postal Codes, How to Pay for Research, German Language Letters, Archive Addresses, German Telephone directory, http://members.cox.net/hessen/table.htm

Ginni, a) I wrote in reply to your first mail which didn't mention where he was born b) In case he was born there, the expression "recent citizen" makes no sense at all for me c) Things might clear up if you could give us the original German wording, not the translation, which might be faulty. Heinz