Did you write the Trinity Lutheran Church? A friend of mine went to the church for me and found the names of my family listed there with dates of baptisms, marriages, deaths. I have searched every cemetery possible in that area and being my great great uncle Fredrich Loersch was one of 21 founders of the church I am pretty sure he is buried there. I know that you have to make an appointment with them to get in and see their records and I was hoping some one that lived in the area might be able to go that for me, I am willing to pay for the service. Jann Whalen Parks PEACE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristi Murdock" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [MI-GENEALOGY] Volunteer in the Detroit Area > For what it is worth, I sent a letter to Trinity Lutheran Cemetery (also > known as "Old German Lutheran Cemetery.") I had death certificates for > three individuals, so had death dates (all circa 1900-1920), and was > looking > for the cemetery records, i.e. who the contact people were, anything else > recorded at time of burial. The cemetery folks replied by mail, saying > that > they effectively have no records, and that I already had much more > information about the decedents than they did. > > I had previously posted a photo request for one of the individuals on > www.Findagrave.com and some anonymous kind soul did go to the unmarked > grave > site and take a great picture of it. This person was able to get the site > information from the cemetery office... but, apparently, that is all they > have. > > --Kristi, in Iowa > > > >

No, it never occurred to me to write to the church instead of the cemetery! Great tip -- Thanks Jann!!! --Kristi -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jann Parks Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MI-GENEALOGY] Volunteer in the Detroit Area Did you write the Trinity Lutheran Church? A friend of mine went to the church for me and found the names of my family listed there with dates of baptisms, marriages, deaths. I have searched every cemetery possible in that area and being my great great uncle Fredrich Loersch was one of 21 founders of the church I am pretty sure he is buried there. I know that you have to make an appointment with them to get in and see their records and I was hoping some one that lived in the area might be able to go that for me, I am willing to pay for the service. Jann Whalen Parks PEACE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristi Murdock" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [MI-GENEALOGY] Volunteer in the Detroit Area > For what it is worth, I sent a letter to Trinity Lutheran Cemetery (also > known as "Old German Lutheran Cemetery.") I had death certificates for > three individuals, so had death dates (all circa 1900-1920), and was > looking > for the cemetery records, i.e. who the contact people were, anything else > recorded at time of burial. The cemetery folks replied by mail, saying > that > they effectively have no records, and that I already had much more > information about the decedents than they did. > > I had previously posted a photo request for one of the individuals on > www.Findagrave.com and some anonymous kind soul did go to the unmarked > grave > site and take a great picture of it. This person was able to get the site > information from the cemetery office... but, apparently, that is all they > have. > > --Kristi, in Iowa > > > > ***************************** The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. MI-Genealogy Mail List Information http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html ***************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message