Hello all! Time to take the leap. I am researching John George Heck, deceased 1 May 1933 in Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania, born to Jacob Heck and Ann Elizabeth Schaub of Basle on 25 Feb 1857, who traveled with his brother Christopher to America sometime on or before 25 April 1885. The Basel Stadt & Kanton Liestal Zivilstandsamt have found no records, suggesting birth out of the city in a village & referring to the heimatort? The family is said to have come up from Graubünden before that. Will appreciate any & all information or leads including addresses & telephones of living relatives. Richard Charles (Devon McLellan Heck Jr) >From: Anne & Pete Bowie <gqp@gqpnras.com> >Reply-To: anne@gqpnras.com >To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SWITZ] Old Photos >Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:31:24 -0800 > >I, too, had difficulty in finding my ancestors in Switzerland. Over the >years your detective skills do develop and with each success you have the >courage to proceed even more. > >One day I was sorting through some old pictures that I've had for many >years >and happened to notice the writing on the front and back of each photo. I >never paid much attention to them before. I got out a magnifying glass and >wrote down every word, translated what I could and then, because the >Internet is so wonderful, I typed in the word I always thought of as the >name of the photo studio in the search engine. > >Boy, was I surprised when it turned out to be the name of a village, >Niederweningen. Bingo, I was "on the road again" and that is the town where >I found my ancestors. > >It seems the "answers" are right in front of us sometimes but we don't see >them at first. A german lady volunteer at the Salt Lake City Family History >Center helped my daughter and me to understand some of the "old >handwriting" >and told us that the numbers after the family name were "house" numbers. We >looked down the census for everyone at house number "282" and found not >only >our ancestor but his siblings and parents. We have since found another >generation back. Our brick wall is that the last man on the path has a name >Johann with no middle name and, as you know, most of the men are called >Johann at birth. We won't give up though. I guess we should be thankful >that >people didn't move from house to house over there like we do here in the >States. > >I hope this information will be helpful to all of you. > >Anne Bowie >Researching: Conrad BUCHER in Niederweningen, Zurich, Switzerland > > >==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== >Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the >Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com