Dear Phyllis, dear Daniela, I just joined that list. Perhaps I can be of a little help for "Voitsbergu". Believe it's the West-Styrian "Voitsberg" Sorry, that the site of the Styrian Goverment is only german: Maps of Styria (Steiermark): http://www.land.steiermark.at/land/gis/ Map of Voitsberg: http://gis1.stmk.gv.at/imap_grundkarten/imap_grundkarten.php3?strasse=Voitsb erg&suche_nach=gemeinden&View=Stadtpl&groesse=4,3&LOCATION=Voitsberg&coords= 660142.063,212912.219&ZOOM=1&Circle=660142.063,212912.219 If you are looking for place names within the former Austrian Empire the "Josefinische Landesaufnahme 1787" - a survey done by the Ministry of War on order by Imperior Josef I might be interesting: http://gis1.stmk.gv.at/imap_grundkarten/imap_grundkarten.php3?coords=704320. 71767596,149685.43551554&ZOOM=5&View=JLA&groesse=10,8 On my own interest, Daniela, do you know someone - by incident - searching the "Rozmarin" who settled near Muretinci ob Ptuj around 1800? I just started to learn Slovenian - have there some problems therefore... ;-) As a genological greenhorn from Styria Walter searching Rosmarin, Rozmarin, Rohsmarin, Romarin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: d. [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Freitag, 05. Oktober 2001 19:29 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Records from archives - translation Dear Phyllis, > I received another large packet from Ljubljana > and need help with one paragraph. Can anyone > help? > > Elizabeta Lipovsek, ki se je rodila 13.11.1874, ... you know this ... > se je porocila na Stajerskem. ...she was married in Stajerskem (Styria) Today it's part of SE of Slovenia - so, if you send a letter to: Name of director: Miroslav Novak Address: Glavni trg 7, 2000 Maribor - Slovenia E-mail: [email protected] There are a great people (my experience) who will help you. > Porocila se je v Voitsbergu na Stejerskem, dne > 28.02.1897 z Antonom Solic. ... she was married in town of Voitsbergu - Styria on day 28. of February 1897 with Anton... (I searched my archive, but i can't find this town. This is the reason more to contact upper mail!) > V Prilogi Vam posiljamo fotokopijo druzinskega > lista, kjer je ta opomba oznacena. On appendix we send you a copy of family list where the remark is marked. With great compassion to all genealogies in USA daniela from sLOVEnia > I know the first sentence starts out that > Elizabeta was born November 13, 1874 but I can't > read the rest of it. Any help is greatly > appreciated > Phyllis > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. > http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 ______________________________