This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wager,Grisward,Wallendorf,Ligler,Ritz,Hanig,Jagelman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fm.2ADE/374 Message Board Post: I am trying to research some of my family from the Leavenworth area and would like to know if someone could tell me how to get records from the German Catholic Church. My Cousin has a little black book written in German that we have had transcibed into English. It list several Baptism records for Joh(an)Sebastian Wager and Agatha Grisward. The came from Germany and France in the 1850's and settled in Leavenworth. Dates of baptisms of some of their children are 1861,1863 in the German Church of Leavenworth. 1866,1868 in the Church of Leavenworth City. I don't know if these are the same churches and would like to know if it is possible to get records from these churches.Some names mentioned in the book are Aloysins Wager, Thineotheus Jagelman, Ernestine,Zezilia,Joseph,Karolina,Josephina,Ernest,Jakob, Aloysins, Maria Agatha Wager, Paul Muwer,Karoline Grisward,Wadais Wallendorf, Theidin Wu....Brennes, Lastigka Ligler, Maria Ritz, Effa Hanig. Book is signed by mayor of Commune of Mollan France in 1858. Please reply or e-mail me if any of these names relate to you. Thanks a bunch, Dorene Stevenson