To All Of You: Thank you so much for answering my query about the name Udalricus. What I was hoping for was something along the line of the change from the latin Guilielmus to Wilhelm. Happy hunting to all of you. Margaret Welsch

I am looking for a coordinator who will give time and energy to maintain the Baden-Wurttemberg site as part of WorldGenWeb Project. Please contact if you are very interested in taking over the site from the present coordinator, Frank Mailänder who has to step down because of his election to his city muncipal counil in his town in Germany. If there are several interesting in taking over, Frank and I will discuss who has time and willing to do it before selecting the coordinator. Baden-Wurttemberg site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~deubadnw if you wish to check it out. There are few policies governing WorldGenWeb Project http://www.worldgenweb.org And as usual we are always looking for any volunteers to run and maintain OTHER countries in South America, southern Europe, Africa, Asia and Pacific where the volunteers are extremely needed badly. Many countries are currently without any coordinator. W. David Samuelsen

Hello: Does anyone know if there is a different name for UDALRICUS? Thank you. Margaret Welsch welsch@ccp.com

I am researching the LaFranchi family in or around BELLINZONA or Robassaco area. Can anyone help me. Mike

-----Original Message----- From: Ken Hollingsworth <jayken@empirenet.com> To: FREEMAN-L@rootsweb.com <FREEMAN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 10:54 PM Subject: [FREEMAN-L] Newspaper Abstracts >There is a new mail list and web site at Rootsweb!! > >This list is for the submission of newspaper abstracts. Newspapers are a >wonderful and often overlooked resource for those researching their >families. > Many fascinating and descriptive details can be found about the lives our >ancestors from the businesses they frequented to the hardships they endured >while trying to build a new life in a new land. Even letters home from men >at >war detailing their daily accounts were occasionally printed for all to >read. > >Over the years many records were lost or destroyed in fires, floods and >natural disasters. Newspapers include notations on births, illnesses and >deaths that occured before local and state governments began keeping >records. >Other items such as tax rolls, local military rosters, court notifications >in >chancery and probate, separations and divorces are also given mention. > >Many newspapers managed to survive the test of time and can now be found at >most state libraries on microfilm and are available thru inter-library loan >for viewing at your local library. > >To view our web site, click here: <A >HREF="http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~newspapr/">Newspaper Abstracts >Home Page</A> (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~newspapr/) > >And to join our mail list send an email to: >Newspaper-Abstracts-L-request@rootsweb.com >or >Newspaper-Abstracts-D-request@rootsweb.com (if you prefer the digest >version) > >and in the body of the message write only the word: >subscribe >

I am researching the following ancestors: 1. Gantenbein from the area in and around Grabs 2. Haas from the area in and around Jenaz. Would be interesting in hearing from anyone with information, or interest, in these two families. Ruth Gantenbein Jenkins. TheJenks8@aol.com Thank you.

In a message dated 10/26/99 2:17:02 PM, genrsch@gve.ch writes: << Geneva, Switzerland 26 October 1999. >Your question is almost the same as that asked of Terry's. We have to make a >make a distinction and many factors have to be taken into account including the >reasons for leaving Switzerland which could be economic, religious, financial >as opposed to economic, political, etc. >The greatest years of immigration from Switzerland appear to be starting with 1848: DearJacques, Thank you SO much for your reply. You have certainly given me a good reference with the immigration dates beginning in 1848. Since Wilhelm Bucher was born 12 Jul 1833 (Bern) and married in Leavenworth, KS in 1857 it seems a likely period of time as he would have been about 15 in 1848 if traveling with parents. Or he might have been traveling alone if traveling within the next few years. It is frustrating to know so little about him. He died in Leavenworth, KS in 1866 at the age of 30. He was known to be lawyer although I have his shingle which reads "notary." It has been said that his family were "hotel" people (probably in Switzerland) and that they disowned him because he married a "low" German.( His wife, my gr- grandmother was from Varel in northern Germany). Family given names besides Wilhelm (his first son) were Henry Robert, my grandfather, his second son. However, the name Heinrich was on his wife's side of the family. (grandfather). Henry Robert's sons were: the 1st, William again and my father Henry Edwin. I wonder why these names all sound so English? Are there German equivalents to Robert and Edwin? My father's sisters were Bertha and Marie. I do have a cousin still living in Leavenworth but she has no interest in Genealogy and knows no more than I do. And yes, there is a military base in Leavenworth. It is or was a military prison. Thank you again for your helpful email. Best regards, Billie Bucher Beeler

HI LIST, I RECEIVED COPIES FROM SWITZERLAND ON MY FAMILY, FINK FAMILY REGISTER. LISTED ARE THE BIRTH,MARRIAGE AND DEATH DATES AND CITIES AND I NOTICED IN THE NOTE SECTION ON A FEW OF THE RELATIVES A MARKERED BLACK CROSS, DOES THAT SYMBOLIZE A FAMILY MEMBER BEING CATHOLIC OR IN THE PRIESTHOOD? IT APPEARS AFTER THE (BLATT NUMBER, IN ENGLISH MEANING THE LEDGER NUMBER) ONE APPEARS IN TH TODESORT COLUMN ON THE DEATH INFORMATION , ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE ME WOULD BE GREATLY APRECIATED, THANK YOU . LORI FINK FROM PA

Thanks to everyone who offered translation assistance! Pam

Hi to everyone. Hope this is an easy question......... I am working from some information in a family bible. Can anyone tell me what the word"sterbefalle" (has the two dots over 'a') means? It is after the name Mrs. Helena Nable, and we thought it might describe her relationship to the family. Thanks, Pam pkparson@computech-online.net (Researching Parsons, Dulaney, Matheny, Brake, Wentworth, Lewis in France, England, Virginia and West Virginia; and Wegmiller, Kehl, Martin, Schmidt, Kearns in Switzerland, Germany, and Ohio)

All these messages about the Staatarchiv in Zurich and in Basel have me wondering again: which archive location would a person contact for Catholics living in Thurgau in the 1500s and 1600s??? A check of LDS records for the village turned up nothing - am I likely to have different results this way? Jon STREBLER San Diego

Hello Everyone, I have lost Lynda's e- mail address... She is from Grant's Pass, Oregon. Does anyone know her e-mail address? Margaret in Maryland

Terry and all, My grandfather, William Bucher , was also born in Bern-1833, married in Leavenworth, KS in 1957. I would also like to know the likely port of departure. Thank you, Billie Beeler

I have the Swiss phonebook on a CD-ROM by Twixtel. My problem: all of a sudden I cannot export data to a text file (Twixlite). It seems to be Twixtel company policy to ignore requests for tech support from customers. Absolutely no help. Does anybody have any experience with this type of Twixtel problem. I have done a re-install.... no help! Pete Mattli (outriggger@aol.com) Ft. Myers, FL

Dear Listers, the Swiss Surname Directory (http://swiss.genealogy.net/surnam-m.htm) has recently encountered a technical problem. As a consequence we had to temporarily suspend our service. Whilst most answers sent out recently will have been correct, there is also a chance that some erroneous responses were sent out. If you have any reason to suspect that data sent to you might be in error, it is recommended to re-request the data as soon as we are up and running again. You are invited to send an empty mailto:SSD-update@bigfoot.com, and we'll notify you about the resumption of our service. We apologize for any inconvenience and send our best regards. Wolf Seelentag on behalf of the SSD Team ---------------------- Wolf W. Seelentag, PhD, e-mail : wolf@swissmail.com Reherstr. 19, CH - 9016 St. Gallen, Switzerland Tel (home) : +41-71-2885121 Fax : +49-89-2443-91987 Tel (work) : +41-71-4942233 -------------- Wolf W. Seelentag, PhD, e-mail : wolf.seelentag@kssg.ch Klinik fuer Radio-Onkologie, Kantonsspital, CH - 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland Tel : +41-71-4942233 Fax : +41-71-4942893

Dear Bob, thanks for the hint : I have immediately linked to it from the Zuerich pages within SwissGen (http://swiss.genealogy.net). Let me just add two more URLs of theirs : 1. Basic genealogy information, incl. a brief description of their sources (yes - unfortunately in German only) may be found on http://www.staatsarchiv.zh.ch/genealogie.html 2. A list (as RTF file) of all surnames with "old" (prior to 1800) citizenship in Canton Zuerich (sorted by community) may be downloaded from http://www.staatsarchiv.zh.ch/download/Z_BUERG.RTF This lists the surnames only; more info on these names is available from the book "Zuercher Familiennamen" http://swiss.genealogy.net/kant/zhnam-m.htm Data from this source may be requested (e-mail) from the Swiss Surname Directory http://swiss.genealogy.net/surnam-m.htm which unfortunately is temporarily not available (we are working on it : if you want to be informed about resumption of service, just send an empty mailto:SSD-update@bigfoot.com). Good luck with your further research - Wolf ---------------------- Wolf W. Seelentag, PhD, e-mail : wolf@swissmail.com Reherstr. 19, CH - 9016 St. Gallen, Switzerland Tel (home) : +41-71-2885121 Fax : +49-89-2443-91987 Tel (work) : +41-71-4942233 > ---------- > Von: swiss-l1@juno.com[SMTP:swiss-l1@juno.com] > Gesendet: Montag, 25. Oktober 1999 23:15 > An: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com > Betreff: [SWITZ] Staatsarchiv in Zurich > > To Swiss listers: > > The Staatsarchiv in Zurich now has a Web Site. However it is all in > German, but with my Globalink Translator program I can translate about 85 > to 90 % of it into English. The Site has the following URL: > http://www.staatsarchiv.zh.ch/vitrine.html > > They also list a e-mail address on the Konkact page. The address is as > follows: > staatsarchivzh@jz.zh.ch > > I assume that all correspondence should be in German, since the Site is > written in German. I have not e-mail anything to them as yet, so this is > only a guess. > > Happy researching, Bob Pfister >

Terry, Our gr. grandparents came in 1869, from Bern, Switz. by train to Hamburg, Germany , then by ship from Hamburg to LaHarve, France on to New York. then by train to Iowa where the family settled. Carolyn -----Original Message----- From: Terry Millheim <golfer1@thegrid.net> To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com <SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, October 25, 1999 3:23 PM Subject: [SWITZ] Departing Port >Hi Listers, > My g-grandfather was born in Bern in 1835. The next thing I have >on him he gets married in America in 1856. In this timeframe what would >be the likely port of departure for America. Oh, his name was Jacob >Forrest Millheim. > Thank You, > Terry Millheim > > >==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== >Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the >Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >

To Swiss listers: The Staatsarchiv in Zurich now has a Web Site. However it is all in German, but with my Globalink Translator program I can translate about 85 to 90 % of it into English. The Site has the following URL: http://www.staatsarchiv.zh.ch/vitrine.html They also list a e-mail address on the Konkact page. The address is as follows: staatsarchivzh@jz.zh.ch I assume that all correspondence should be in German, since the Site is written in German. I have not e-mail anything to them as yet, so this is only a guess. Happy researching, Bob Pfister ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

Hi Bob The Website is: http://www.bs.ch/stabs/index.html They have an email address: stabs@bs.ch In addition to that try their contact side: http://www.bs.ch/cgi-bin/stabs/kontakt.pl?stabs@bs.ch You mention Dr. Andreas Staehelin, I didn't find him on the list of contacts at: http://www.bs.ch/stabs/main_ueberuns_ansprechpartner.html Are you sure that he works (still) at the Staatsarchiv? I found some older literature by him: Staehelin, Andreas: Die Abteilung "Privat-Archive" des Basler Staatsarchivs, in: Jahresbericht des StABS 1962, S. 27-42. Staehelin, Andreas: Das Basler Staatsarchiv und seine Bedeutung für die landeskundliche Forschung, in: Regio Basiliensis, Hefte für jurassische und oberrheinische Landeskunde 5 (1964), S. 141-151. Staehelin, Andreas: Die Organisation der baselstädtischen Verwaltung, ein kurzer geschichtlicher Überblick, in: Jahresbericht des StABS 1979, S. 20-24). Staehelin, Andreas: Das historische Grundbuch der Stadt Basel. Seine Entstehung und Entwicklung, in: Jahresbericht des StABS 1990, S. 20-28. Regards, Regula Bob & Mary Ann Pfennig wrote: > > I would like to contact Dr. Andreas Staehelin at the Staatarchiv des > Kantons Basel-Staat. Does anyone know if the Archiv and/or Dr. > Staehelin have an email address? If not, what is their postal mailing > address? > Thank you, Bob Pfennig in New Braunfels, TX wo das Leben schön ist! > > ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== > Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the > Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html -- Regula Nebel Reinach BL, Switzerland

Oh yes, the Basel Archives is an outstanding one. Staatsarchiv des Kantons Basel-Stadt Martinsgasse 2, Postfach CH-401 Basel fax: 061/267 65 71 e-mail Daniel.Kress@atibs.ch I have worked there three times. My family are the Weitnaurs. Which family are your researching and could you explain Dr. Andreas Staehelin. You will find alphabetical listings of the families in Death, Bapt. and Marriage records at the LDS. Anne At 12:52 PM 10/25/99 -0500, you wrote: >I would like to contact Dr. Andreas Staehelin at the Staatarchiv des >Kantons Basel-Staat. Does anyone know if the Archiv and/or Dr. >Staehelin have an email address? If not, what is their postal mailing >address? >Thank you, Bob Pfennig in New Braunfels, TX wo das Leben schön ist! > > >==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== >Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the >Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >