Bob- We French-Canadians are VERY lucky!! I volunteer one day per week at the local LDS Family History Center, which gives me a chance to help many people with different ethic backgrounds, and I try to guide them through the scant records available for their research. It is incredible what is NOT available compared to the vast records we FCs have. The Quebec records are the greatest records on the planet!! Les ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:10 AM Subject: [ILSTANNE] Historical note > FYI--the following is a comment I received from a contact in my paternal > ancestors' village in Swabia, south of Stuttgart. I guess it shows how lucky > we French Canadians are. > > "I am astonished that you find the dates of ancestors in France back to the > late 1500s. In our region a lot of records have been destroyed during the > Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648). Obviously the soldiers of the French > Revolution were not as destructive as the Swedish, French and Imperial troups > during the war 1618 - 1648 in Germany." > > > > > ==== ILSTANNE Mailing List ==== > You can search or browse the ARCHIVES of any RootsWeb list at: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >