Dear List: Time to "fill in your dance cards" Kristie Aldrup, San Antonio, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: Jürgen Mittelhammer Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 5:17 AM To: 'Kristie Aldrup' Subject: AW: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] From the MadCoIL:List: Germans - Where they came from... Hi Kristie, I would translate the following Codes as: MSCH is Mecklenburg-Schwerin MSTR is Mecklenburg-Strelitz POME is Pommern SALT is Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxe-Anhalt) SCOG is Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) SHOL is Schleswig-Holstein SILE is Schlesien (Silesia) SWEE is maybe Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) THUR is Thüringen (Thuringia) Regards Jürgen > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Kristie Aldrup [SMTP:[email protected]] > Gesendet am: Montag, 1. April 2002 02:39 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] From the MadCoIL:List: Germans - Where they came > from... > > Dear German-Bohemian ReSearchers: Perhaps someone can help us on the Madison > County IL list. Send your suggestions to: [email protected] > Thanks, Kristie > > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 From: Roger Vaughn <[email protected]> To: > [email protected] > Subject: [ILMADISO-L] Where they came from - Marsha -The code appear to be > four letter abbreviations of cities or states. i.e., Baden Baden, Bavaria, > Brandenburg, Bremen, ?, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, ?, ?, > Hessian, ?, ?, ?, Mecklenburg, ?, Munster, ?,( West) Phalia, ?, ?, ?, Saxon?, > ?, ?, ?, ?, Thuringer, (Swartz) Wald, Wurtzburg. Perhaps someone else can > make corrections and fill in the blanks. Roger Monterey > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 From: Debbi Geer <[email protected]> To: ILMADISO- > [email protected] > > Subject: Where they came from - Marsha - Let's take that percentage down a bit > with these codes > > BADE - 489 - Baden > BAVA - 443 - Bavaria > BRAN - 2 - Brandenburg or Braunsweig > BREM - 5 - Bremen > BRUN - 39 Brunswick? > FRNK - 1 - Frankfort > HAMB - 7 - Hamburg > HANO - 493 - Hanover > HCAS - 27 - Hesse Castle > HDAR - 147 - Hesse Darmstadt or Hessendame > HESS - 71 - Hesse, Hessen or Hessian > HDEC - 1 - ? > LDET - 27 - Lippe Detmold or Lippe Darmstadt > LSCH - 4 - Lippe Schaumberg > MECK - 22 - Mecklenburg > MSCH - 3 - ? > MSTR - 1 - ? > OLDE - 12 - Oldenburg > PFAL - 1 - Pfaltz or Pfalz > POME - 1 - ? > RSCH - 1 ? > SALT - 2 - ? > SAXO - 117 - Saxony, Saxe or Saxon > SCHW - 6 - ? > SCOG - 1 - ? > SHOL - 22 - ? > SILE - 3 - ? > SWEE - 7 - ? > THUR - 2 - ? > WALD - 66 - Waldeck > WEST - 6 - Westphalia > WURT - 226 - Wurtemburg > UNKN - 23 - Unknown > NCOD - 12 - No Code > ASEA - 2 - At Sea > > Hope this helps. Debbi > __________________________________________________ > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 From: Marsha Ensminger <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] Subject: [ILMADISO-L] Where they came from - > Santa brought the Heritage Quest "Germans in the 1870 US Federal Census" CD > last year. The search process is rather klunky, and they use a four letter > code for birthplace that I haven't found a table of equivalencies for, but > the general breakdown looks like this: In the 1870 census there were 4111 > heads of households in Madison Co., IL identified as "German". Of these, > 1816 or 44% had their birthplaces recorded as either Prussia or Germany. The > remaining birthplaces (using the 4 letter code) were: > BADE - 489, > BAVA - 443, > BRAN - 2, > BREM - 5, > BRUN - 39, > FRNK - 1, > HAMB - 7, > HANO - 493, > HCAS - 27, > HDAR - 147, > HESS - 71, > HDEC - 1, > LDET - 27, > LSCH - 4, > MECK - 22, > MSCH - 3, > MSTR - 1, > OLDE - 12, > PFAL - 1, > POME - 1, > RSCH - 1, > SALT - 2, > SAXO - 117, > SCHW - 6, > SCOG - 1, > SHOL - 22, > SILE - 3, > SWEE - 7, > THUR - 2, > WALD - 66, > WEST - 6, > WURT - 226, > UNKN - 23, > NCOD - 12, > ASEA - 2. > I would guess that the last three are "unknown", "no code", and "at sea", > bringing the unidentified to 45% of the total. > ===== > Marsha L. Ensminger searching for Westerhold/t/z in the US and ?Get more from > the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ====Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

I don't have records for Alton Cemetary, but I have a book that shows Madison co. deaths. Here is what is listed: Chester Sherman, died: 31 Oct 1881, Mitchell Twp Jane Sherman, died 2 Feb 1878, Nameoki Twp it doesn't list a place of burial for them. I hope this helps you.