The e-mail address for Fred Held was rejected as not being valid. In his message he provided three hyperlinks: The first ws for the oneline card catalog for the LDS Family Library. We would appreciate being given the step by step directions to get to the page with the card catalogs. The second hyperlink gives you "Genealogie im Saarland" which is in the German Language only. (this is no problem for us as we are knowledgeable in reading, writing, and speaking that language. It does however state: Feel free to; send inquiries in English to the author of this page. We looked it up and it is mailto:kberndt@ur.pils.de the ending "de" tells us that he is in Germany (the Saar being a state of Germany) therefore, you should get some good results, Johanna St. Clair, by learning from him where to find the data that you want on Bliessen. Al and Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred H. Held" <fhheld@netzero.net> To: <PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 9:12 AM Subject: RE: [PFALZ] Bliesen > Johnna, > > Most of our ancestors were not land owners, since the property was owned by > the king, duke, or some other ruler. The best you can usually do is find > entries in the church records for baptisms, marriages, and deaths. In the > regions where Napolean went through, which includes this region of > Saarland, there are also civil records. > > You can get to those records at your local LDS Family HIstory Center. The > LDS Family History Library online card catalog > (http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp) shows both church > and civil records for Blieson. The Bliesen you want would be the one listed > for Rheinland Prussia. (To read the history of the area go to the German > Genealogy website - > http://www.genealogienetz.de/gene/reg/SAA/saarland-d.html or > http://www.rootsweb.com/~deusaa/.) Find your local LDS FHC at the listing > at the same site and order the microfilms from Salt Lake City. > > > >Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:19:00 -0500 > >From: "Gregory St. Clair" <gregjohnna@worldnet.att.net> > >To: PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [PFALZ] Bliesen > > > >Hello Listers: > > > >I would like to write to the village official at Bliesen, Saarland. I > have tracked down my ancestors born there in 1813, and would like to see if > I could find some land records and things like that. > > > >I looked for information on the Saarland Page, but I think Bliesen is very > small. I didn't find much on it. > > > >Does anyone know of a website for the village I could check out. Perhaps > the address of the Village Office or something like that? Maybe a museum > of local history? > > > >Thanks in advance, > > > >Johnna St. Clair > > > -- > Please use this address until further notice mailto:fhheld@netzero.net > > _____NetZero Free Internet Access and Email______ > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > > ==== PFALZ Mailing List ==== > Going on vacation longer than 4 days? Go to > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/PFALZ.html > to unsubscribe >