This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xh.2ADE/1682 Message Board Post: Just some things I gleaned today at the FHL in Salt Lake: Abstract of record from LDS FHL INTL Film #1189092, Kirchenbuch, 1640-1887: Georg Jacob Foernsel, son of Jacob Foernsel and his wife Maria Elisabetha Dieffenbacher, and his wife Charlotta Barbara Balz, daughter of Johannes Balz and his wife Agata Fegert of Michelbach, Wuerttemburg, present a baptismal certificate for their daughter Elisabetha b 22 Apr 1824, baptised 9 May 1824, in Michelbach. Daughter Elisabetha was born before the parents marriage which occured on 26 May 1824. George Jacob declares himself to be the father of Elisabetha so that she will receive his last name. One of the witnesses was Phillip Foernsel, a soldier in the Grand Army of the Duchy of Baden (was this his brother Philipp or an uncle?). From: Evangelische Kirche Eppingen (A. Eppingen) (Main Author), Kirchenbuch, 1640-1887, Karlsruhe: Evang. Landeskirchenamt Baden, 196?, LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA, US CAN INTL Film #1189092: Birth of Philipp Foernsel, 2 Jun 1828 in Eppingen, Heidelberg, Baden to Georg Jacob Foernsel and Charlotta Barbara Balz. Sponsors for baptism were Philipp Kuhn and his wife Elisabetha and Phil., Foernsel. If this is the birth record for the same Philipp Foernsel b ca 1828 who settled in Clay County,Indiana, he would be the nephew of Eva Foernsel who married to Conrad Sinder (Suender) and settled in Owen County, Indiana. May of Conrad and Eva's children lived in Clay County, including my gg mother Elizabeth Sinders who married Levi Fogle. On the LDS IGI, there is also a Johannes Foernsel, b 30 Apr 1834, chr 08 May 1834 in Eppingen. He was the son of Jacob Foernsel and Charlotte Balz, a brother to the Phillip above. Is this the John Foernsel who married Louise Schuler in Clay County in 1866? I took a copy of these records off the microfilm, so if anyone wants a xerox let me know and I'll send it to you. I apologize if you receive this message twice. My computer glitched just as I sent it the first time.