Hi Gary, Thanks for your input. I will one morning play hookie from work, and just go to the archives on James St. I've been there before, walked up during lunch. I'll have to send the day. I took a look at your web site. It is very nice, easy on the eyes. I did note that one of your Rupperts lived a block up on Eastern Ave from my Muhlenfelds (Mühlenfeld). In 1889 the address was 333. Years later the house number was 2019. I figured the city renumbered the houses. I always try to imagine the children playing on the streets, and perhaps our relatives knew each other. Thanks again for your, as always, great insight. Karen -----Original Message----- From: g.ruppert@att.net To: md-baltimorecity@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] Rev. Dr. M. Bachman Hi Karen: I know you asked this question of John Siemon but I'm going to chime in too. The answer is YES!. Just as a general rule, always check the original record. In this case, there are lots of additional reasons. One is that there are a few mistakes in the on-line database (it has been transcribed several times). Since I'm partially responsible for the posting, I have no qualms about telling you there are typos and other errors. Secondly, there is a lot more to the original records than posted on the MdGenSoc web site. Finally, there are records for St. Paul's Fifth German Reformed congregation which are at the archive that were never microfilmed. So, by all means visit the E&R Archive in Lancaster. By the way, if you search the archive for this mailing list, you will find quite a number of posts by me discussing additional details about St. Paul's and other German-language congregations in Baltimore City. Good Luck. Gary B. Ruppert President/Webmaster MdGenSoc 26 October 2006 Baltimore http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert -------------- Original message from md-baltimorecity-request@rootsweb.com: -------------- > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Rev. Dr. M. Bachman (Kromeo@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:30:09 EDT > From: Kromeo@aol.com > Subject: Re: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] Rev. Dr. M. Bachman > To: md-baltimorecity@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > John, thanks for this information. I found my g-grandmother listed. My > question is, since I work real close (walking distance) to the historical > society on James ST, would it be worthwhile to search the orginal? I have her > death date, but nothing else; i.e. marriage, birth, and that of her parents. > Would this info be written in the orginal records? > > Karen > > > > In a message dated 10/24/2006 11:35:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > baltohist7@verizon.net writes: > > Karen, > Confirming Lisa's info, the 1899 Baltimore City Directory listed the Fifth > German Reformed Church, at Canton Ave & Broadway, with Rev. Marcus Bachman > as the pastor. > > In a stroke of luck for you, the late Pauline Leitner and her husband Robert > transcribed records from the church and they are now online at the Maryland > Genealogical Society's web site. This is a great resource that deserves our > support. You can access the records at: > http://www.mdgensoc.org/database%20transcriptions/transcriptions.html > > It looks like Rev. Bachmann himself and many of his family were buried from > there. > > John > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MD-BALTIMORECITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.