Seeking info regarding Ernst Gerster-Pina of, maybe, Raach/Winden,Switzerland. Please reply to < ander@midcoast.com.au > >From Douglas Ross Jnr. Aberfeldy, Holbrook, Australia.

Hello Everyone: I just joined the mailing list and was wondering if anyone is researching families in Liesberg (Canton Basel-Landschaft) and Balstahl (Canton Solothurn). Also, I believe I have the correct Cantons listed, but if I am wrong, I would appreciate knowing the correct Cantons for these two towns, Thank you Paul C. Miller

Fellow Swiss researchers: I was perusing the used book section of Picton Press and came across a deal for "Swiss Surnames" - but you can only get voumes 2 & 3 at the special price of $70 (the whole set normally sells for $149.50, so basically $50 / book) Check it out at: http://www.pictonpress.com/catalog/Abe_Usd_1.html BOOK_NO: 319USD AUTHOR: Lewis Bunker Rohrbach TITLE: Swiss Surnames: A Complete Register, commonly known as Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz, American edition with new Preface http://www.pictonpress.com/catalog/books/1630.htm SUBJECT: SWITZERLAND PUBL_DATE PRICE: $70.00 DESCRIPT: 2 volumes only; vol. 2 has bent cover, vol. 3 bound upside down I suppose you would have to ask if you could get volume 1 also. regards, Dave Schmutz Here are the Picton Press links to their Swiss pages: http://www.pictonpress.com/catalog/genealogies.htm#swiss http://www.pictonpress.com/catalog/foreign.htm#switzerland

The request for information about wills in Canton Basel by Norma Tucker, received this reply by the Canton Basel Archives in Basel. >From Daniel Kress, Archivist "Our services are keeping a large stock of different archives from local notary's offices (See shelf marked "Notariatsarchiv". If you are looking for the will of particular persons, the researcher you hire will have to have the name of the notary public who read the will of this person." Sadly, the LDS has not copied these wills. Could anyone tell me if there are certain notaries for certain parishes? If we know the church parish where the man lived, could we more easily locate the man? Anne

-----Original Message----- From: Myra V Gormley <myravg@prodigy.net> To: ARNEWTON-L@rootsweb.com <ARNEWTON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [ARNEWTON] Fw: GEDCOMs at RootsWeb >The GEDCOMS are yours ..... you can edit, change, or yank them at any time. >The official announcement is coming out in RootsWeb Review tonight. > >Here's information: >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igmuser.cgi/ > > >This is better and different from any GEDCOM capabilities I've ever seen. I >think you are going to really like it. > >Allbest, > > >Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG >myravg@rootsweb.com >Co-editor RootsWeb Review/Missing Links >http://www.rootsweb.com/~review >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mlnews >Free Genealogy Lessons online at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/ >My home on the Web: >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gormleym/ >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >Work like you don't need money; >Love like you've never been hurt; >Dance like no one's watching. >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > >______________________________

Hi List: Many Swiss immigrants settled in the state of Illinois. Today, the Ancestry web posted the following information which may help someone in their lineage search. ILLINOIS STATEWIDE MARRIAGE INDEX ONLINE <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ============================================================ In a move that has delighted researchers with Illinois roots, the Illinois State Archives, in a cooperative effort with the Illinois State Genealogical Society, has begun posting the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index Online. Although the project is not complete, there are 1 million marriages (2 million names) from the years prior to 1901 currently available in this huge project. A list of counties, with years available is at: http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/marrlst.html The database can be searched at: http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/marriage.html The project is also in need of volunteers. For more information on volunteering, contact: Charles Cali Illinois State Archives Margaret Cross Norton Building, 3rd Floor Capitol Complex Springfield, IL 62756 Tel: 217-782-3503 Fax: 217-524-3930 E-mail: mailto:ccali@ccgate.sos.state.il.us

Dear Friends, the server hosting swiss.genealogy.net has recently been upgraded, also resulting in a changed IP address - which seems to cause problems with some name servers. Should you experience problems in accessing the above mentioned URL, please, try alternatively one of the following mirror sites : http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/ http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/reg/CH/ http://german.genealogy.net/gene/reg/CH/ They all worked (for me) just now. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and send my best regards - 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

Effective immediately, please change address to rsmith2111@aol.com. Thank you.

Magdalene HARRI, 1848-1941 emmigrated to Alliance, Knox Twp.,Columbiana County, Ohio with the Samuel WAFLER & Eliza EGGER family in 1870. She was a family friend/nanny. She is buried with the WAFLER family in Bethel United Church of Christ cemetery in Beloit, OH. from S. Weir lentz@hometel.com from the Illinois prairie

I hope I am not duplicating anything But wanted to share this with everyone. Tammy -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Funk <NimAndKat@prodigy.net> To: PRICE-L@rootsweb.com <PRICE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 1:21 PM Subject: GEDCOMs at RootsWeb >Look what just arrived at RootsWeb!!! New!! > >This is so neat! You can upload your family file to RootsWeb for free! And, boy, is it great! I just uploaded and it only took a few minutes. You have the option to include "more about" notes or not, you can include your sources or not, you can "clean" the info on your living folks---many options available. > >First, you need to set up an account, so you can upload your file, and later, to edit it (which I just did, also). Then, send it up! So easy and so fast. It took HOURS to send it to the Family Tree Maker site. Just minutes at RootsWeb, and it's much more complete. > >Also, you can add "post-ems" to anyone's data, and you can be notified when someone adds a post-em to yours, so that you can connect. > >This is brand new, just got started yesterday, I think. There may be a few bugs yet, but there's a message board where the fellow taking care of the GEDs is posting responses to the suggestions. And he is fast. > >What a great idea! Now we can all connect so much easier and FREE! Here's the URL: > >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >I can't wait to get some more databases online. Spread the word! > >Kathy >

Hello Everyone, Did Swiss nannies who were working in England have to fill out any paperwork in order to do so, either in Switzerland or in England? Where would they be located? Years 1953-57 Thanks Bruno Giles USA

--part1_0.befeff47.2534d684_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit re: Fink Family research, as follows: --part1_0.befeff47.2534d684_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <> Received: from rly-zc02.mx.aol.com (rly-zc02.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.2]) by air-zc05.mail.aol.com (v62.10) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:16:07 -0400 Received: from imo-d04.mx.aol.com (imo-d04.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.228]) by rly-zc02.mx.aol.com (v61.13) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:15:53 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost) by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) with internal id OAA05675; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:15:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:15:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Message-Id: <199910121815.OAA05675@imo-d04.mx.aol.com> To: Chicka2962@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="OAA05675.939752153/imo-d04.mx.aol.com" Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) --OAA05675.939752153/imo-d04.mx.aol.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The original message was received at Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:15:14 -0400 (EDT) from root@localhost *** ATTENTION *** An e-mail you sent to an Internet destination could not be delivered. The Internet address is listed in the section labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----". The reason your e-mail could not be delivered is listed in the section labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----". The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message which is a general translation for other e-mail servers. Please direct further questions regarding this message to the e-mail administrator or Postmaster at that destination. ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <Switzerland-Drequest@rootsweb.com> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to bl-3.rootsweb.com.: >>> RCPT To:<Switzerland-Drequest@rootsweb.com> <<< 550 <Switzerland-Drequest@rootsweb.com>... User unknown 550 <Switzerland-Drequest@rootsweb.com>... User unknown --OAA05675.939752153/imo-d04.mx.aol.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Final-Recipient: RFC822; Switzerland-Drequest@rootsweb.com Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; bl-3.rootsweb.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 <Switzerland-Drequest@rootsweb.com>... User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:15:53 -0400 (EDT) --OAA05675.939752153/imo-d04.mx.aol.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from Chicka2962@aol.com by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v23.6.) id ePAW0cFBVR (3703) for <Switzerland-Drequest@rootsweb.com>; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:15:14 -0400 (EDT) Return-path: Chicka2962@aol.com From: Chicka2962@aol.com Message-ID: <0.24b555c5.2534d4b2@aol.com> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:15:14 EDT Subject: Fink Family To: Switzerland-Drequest@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 26 Would anyone out there have the following names, census look ups, igi, anything for the following names.:? Hermann Fink, born Nov 15, 1875 or May 9,1873 in Gossliwil, Solothurn Father Johann Fink Feb 2, 1840 - July 1, 1916 (obit?) Mother: Anna Marie Huber april 26, 1840 - April 3, 1887 (obit?) Father of Johann: Benedik Fink dates? Mother of Johann: Elisabeth Henzi dates? Any information, any source, for any of the above would be much appreciated. Information on how I can find out anything? Thank you all so much Gerrie Lee Fink Perna in New Jersey Chickadee2@aol.com --OAA05675.939752153/imo-d04.mx.aol.com-- --part1_0.befeff47.2534d684_boundary--

Hello All, Thank you all very much for the information you've sent me. You've brought to my attention numerous avenues of research and I appreciate everything!! I have another question - this one about naming patterns.Henry Boozer married Catherine Painter, daughter of John Adam Painter and wife Catherine. I have a list of Henry and Catherine's children that I believe is correct. They were: Adam Boozer (named for Catherine's father) Henry R. Boozer Mary D. Boozer Catherine Boozer (named for Catherine and her mother) Peter Boozer Margaret Boozer Elizabeth Boozer John Russell Boozer (my ancestor) Eli Boozer William Boozer Would it be reasonable to expect that Henry R. and Mary D. might be named for Henry's parents? Is the name Rolandus a Swiss name? My father's name was James Rolandus Boozer and his grandfather (son of John Russell above) had Rolandus in his name. Any information or thoughts on this? Thank you all again for your generosity. Doris Boozer Tartt

Hi list I would just like to thank everyone that helped me with my ZWINGLI reserch. I receved enouph information to continue my serch Dave

Thank you Maralyn for your tireless efforts on this list. There are frequent contributors like Wolf, Dave, Pete and Jean among others that I also wish to thank. I have been slowly building up the courage to move into foreign areas of my research. I have at least three family lines into Switzerland. I now have my German/English English/German dictionary and it has been fun figuring things out. I also have at least one line into Germany (and probably more) so it looks like my high school German is finally paying off. Wolf, I notice that you are in the same canton that my grandmother emmigrated from. Her name was Hedwig Esther Stricker, b. 10 Feb, 1888. She emmigrated at the age of four with her family. I now have her parent's names, Peter Stricker and Hedwig Wachter. They were from Sargans, St. Gallen. The story is that Peter Stricker was a piano tuner and Hedwig Wachter's family were more well to do. Hedwig's family was not happy when she left for the USA to be with him. Another family resided in Switzerland for about a generation. Hans Jacob Hagi was born 21 Nov, 1668, in Elsenz, Baden, Germany. His sons, Hans George Hage and Johan Jacob Hage were born in Switzerland ca 1695, 1698. All three emmigrated to America in 1732. Other variations of the name are Haga, Hagey, Hege. Another family line is Reidi, Reedy, Riedy. Hanzet Reidi ca. 1635-1700 was buried in the Filisur Parish Church, Filisur, Graubunden as was his spouse Ursina Pol Caspar d. 20 Aug, 1693. Dave and Larry Reedy have done a great job of showing the family line at Reedy.org. I wouldn't be surprised if more Swiss lines continue to pop up! I have a lot to do here, and thank you all for being here. Amy

This work was also announced in "The Swiss Connection" Volume 1, Number 2 (January 1993,) when information was being solicited by the Historical Society of Liechtenstein. It is a revised edition of Norbert Jansen's book, "Nach Amerika!" At that time it was indicated that most Liechtensteiners who came to the U.S. in the second half of the 19th century settled in the Midwest, particularly in and around Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. A number of the names of prominent Liechtensteiners were listed in this issue. Sincerely, Maralyn A. Wellauer, Editor "The Swiss Connection" http://www.feefhs.org/ch/tsc/frg-tsc.html -----Original Message----- From: Seelentag Wolfhart Dr. KSSG_RO <wolf.seelentag@kssg.ch> To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com <SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 2:08 PM Subject: [SWITZ] Emigration from Liechtenstein to America >Nach Amerika ! > >is a great book on emigration from Liechtenstein to America - in two volumes >: > >Volume 1 describes the reasons for emigration, the journey to America, >successes and failures in the new country with many >examples; it also connects Liechtenstein and American history. > >Volume 2 contains biographical notes on 14 single emigrants or families. >Finally fairly recent emigrants describe their >experiences. > >The Register lists all surnames of known emigrants to North- and >South-America. > >Whilst the book is written in German, an English abstract is now available >online. Furthermore, the authors offer to check whether individuals are >mentioned in the book - you are just requested to consult the surname index >first : don't ask for any surnames which are not mentioned in the index ! > >You'll find a link to these pages from the "SwissGen News" page > http://swiss.genealogy.net/news-m.htm >where you may also subscribe to the "Mind-It" feature, which will inform you >via e-mail as soon as a new page (or a major re-write) is announced on the >news page. > >Best regards - 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 > > >==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== >Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the >Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >

Nach Amerika ! is a great book on emigration from Liechtenstein to America - in two volumes : Volume 1 describes the reasons for emigration, the journey to America, successes and failures in the new country with many examples; it also connects Liechtenstein and American history. Volume 2 contains biographical notes on 14 single emigrants or families. Finally fairly recent emigrants describe their experiences. The Register lists all surnames of known emigrants to North- and South-America. Whilst the book is written in German, an English abstract is now available online. Furthermore, the authors offer to check whether individuals are mentioned in the book - you are just requested to consult the surname index first : don't ask for any surnames which are not mentioned in the index ! You'll find a link to these pages from the "SwissGen News" page http://swiss.genealogy.net/news-m.htm where you may also subscribe to the "Mind-It" feature, which will inform you via e-mail as soon as a new page (or a major re-write) is announced on the news page. Best regards - 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

Hello Listers, I hope someone can give me some direction. My ancestor, Henry Boozer (probably Heinrich Buser) was born in 1801 in Switzerland. His father died in 1808 and his mother remarried. Shortly thereafter, the family came to America - I think between 1810-1820. As far as I know now there were four of them - Henry and his sister and his mother and step-father. I don't know any of their names. Henry was bound out to a man named Becker in Lancaster Co., PA for four years. He was married in 1825 in PA or OH to Catherine Painter, daughter of John Adam Painter and wife Catherine. Henry and Catherine lived in Columbiana Co., OH until about 1845 when they moved to Wood Co., OH. The "family tradition" in our family was that Henry and his sister were left orphaned when their parents died enroute to America and that their governess took everything they had, so they were taken in by passengers on the ship, not finding each other again until they were old. Another descendant of Henry told me that in their family it was said that they "sailed from Holland or LeHavre". Can anyone tell me if they would have traveled by other means from Switzerland to either of these places to depart by ship, or would these be ports that the ship would have docked in during the voyage?? Is there a clue here? The passenger lists that I have found in libraries and on the net have very few listings for the years I am looking for. Are they not available or have I been looking in the wrong places? Several people have suggested that I go to a FHC and read the Julius Billeter files but my Mother lives with me and can't be left alone so I am housebound and don't know when I could go to a larger city where there is a FHC. So, any help or direction you good people could give me would be greatly appreciated! Doris Boozer Tartt in Mississippi

Die Herbsttagung der SGFF befasst sich mit Neuerungen im Zivilstandswesen. Sie findet am 20. November 1999 in Solothurn statt. Details finden Sie unter http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/ver/chbull61.htm#SO The SGFF autumn meeting takes place in Solothurn on 20 Nov 1999 - details see http://swiss.genealogy.net/ver/chbull61.htm#SO (in German) Beste Gruesse - best regards - 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

Hello Listers, Am researching my family line above and would be happy to exchange info with anyone searching same. What I have is as follows: 1860 & 1880 census shows great-great-grandfather William Abraham Peltz residing in city of Osborn, currently Enon, Ohio, Mad River Township, Clark Co. and born in NY approx 1800. Wife Sarah Greene and children Charles, David, William and Mary. Tradition was Peltz Brothers came from Prussia in a British Man Of War to Fight in Revolution and deserted to join Washington's forces. David was my great-grandfather's brother and have data on his activities in Civil War. Regards and thank you in advance. Raymond Adelbert Peltcs