My dealings with Speyer were back in the dark ages - before people people owned computers and when the exchange rate made writing for records reasonable. I had sent a request to the civil authorities in Belheim, and they referred me to Speyer, saying "the older church books are there". I then sent a form letter from the "Genealogical Helper" which I could not entirely read, but which asked for a rather limited amount of material. I received a marriage record, a death record, and some extractions showing parents of the people I had asked about. I believe I might have gotten more had I been able to follow up with a self composed letter... but I was discouraged by the statement in the marriage (2d wife) document, that my ggggrandfather did not know where his parents were buried, and I assumed that if HE did not know that information, there was no way that I was going to find it. . But the Computer Era dawned and I was able to get the Bellheim films from the LDS church. There I found additional information about the ancestors of the names from Speyer, and even find an eversogreat uncle whose birth information gave me a new location (and film) for the "unburied" ancestors and led me to another hundred years of family in Wuertemburg. If only there were more films!.

Great tips -- Thanks!! I may be at a disadvantage for German since I am nearly deaf... I can read some German and French I do have one question: Are there additional records for Otterstadt, Waldsee, Dudenhofen and Heiligenstein/Berghausen housed at the archives in Speyer? mmongoose <mmongoose@tds.net> wrote: My dealings with Speyer were back in the dark ages - before people people owned computers and when the exchange rate made writing for records reasonable. I had sent a request to the civil authorities in Belheim, and they referred me to Speyer, saying "the older church books are there". I then sent a form letter from the "Genealogical Helper" which I could not entirely read, but which asked for a rather limited amount of material. I received a marriage record, a death record, and some extractions showing parents of the people I had asked about. I believe I might have gotten more had I been able to follow up with a self composed letter... but I was discouraged by the statement in the marriage (2d wife) document, that my ggggrandfather did not know where his parents were buried, and I assumed that if HE did not know that information, there was no way that I was going to find it. . But the Computer Era dawned and I was able to get the Bellheim films from the LDS church. There I found additional information about the ancestors of the names from Speyer, and even find an eversogreat uncle whose birth information gave me a new location (and film) for the "unburied" ancestors and led me to another hundred years of family in Wuertemburg. If only there were more films!. ********* Information for list members: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/PFALZ.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PFALZ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message