--------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert J. Konrad <rjkonrad@juno.com> To: PFALZ-D-request@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:31:33 -0500 Subject: MOOTZ Family Message-ID: <20001211.113134.-3827041.0.rjkonrad@juno.com> Some months ago ( August ) I sent a message regarding my ancestors Mootz/Konrad. At the time I had found a record of the confirmation of my grandmother Katharina Mootz Konrad in the Catholic church at Annweiler, Phalz, Bayern. One of you gave me the film numbers for the LDS microfilms of this churches records. Thank You! I searched the IGI on familysearch.org and found additional listings that could have been my ancestors. Eventually I ordered 4 films, 2 each containing the records of the RC Churches at Annweiler and Wernersberg and have searched these records successfully. In general my Mootz relatives belonged to the parish in Wernersberg while my ancestors on my great grandmother's side Huber/Sturm were members at Annweiler. I have the names of my ggggrandparents Joannes Phillip Sturm and Frances Geibert and ggggrandparents Jacob Huber and Elizabeth Schuesslerin in the Annweiler records. From the Wernersberg records I have the names of my gggrandparents Jacob Mootz and Elizabeth Schlosser who were married in the RC church at Gossersweiler. I will order these Gossersweiler records from the LDS and search for added data on these ancestors. I have looked at Map Blast and located these three towns and was amazed they were so close together and yet each had a catholic church. I estimate I could encircle these three towns in a circle 6 miles in diameter. Is there a member of this list who lives close to these areas who knows whether these 3 churches still exist and are active parishes? Does anyone have knowledge of the activities in the area of these three towns in the 1800's? I noted many of the parishioners at Annweiler were listed as farmers while several in Wernersberg were listed as stone masons. I have less info on my Konrad ancestors as they were from Strengen, Tirol, Austria because the RC church did not allow LDS to microfilm their records and make them public thru their loan from Salt Lake City. I was advised that the microfilms do exist in the Landesarchiv in Innsbruck, Austria. I hope to get my youngest daughter who lives in Kaiserslautern to visit Innsbruck and research this area for me. Thanks again for the suggestions back in August and for any additional info you can supply on my new inquiries. Bob Konrad, Peachtree City, GA