Dear Lisa: Joe indicates that you need to check the "Bern Canton Microfilm records." Information about this can be found be starting at: http://swiss.genealogy.net/ldsloc-m.htm and clicking on the BE (Bern) canton link. This will take you to the LDS FamilySearch website and lists all the villages in the canton of BE. (Any canton's villages can also be viewed by starting in SwissGen). You will find Mülchi listed there along with information about what is contained on the microfilms. The following was found on the LDS website for Mülchi: "Parish baptisms of the Protestant Reformed Church congregation of Bernisch Messen, comprising Bangerten bei Dieterswil, Etzelkofen, Mülchi, Ruppoldsried, and Scheunen, Ct. Berne, Switzerland. Events recorded outside the parish are usually not in chronological order. Most volumes contain their own indexes. Messen, at one time administered by Ct. Solothurn and Ct. Berne, is now wholly part of Ct. Solothurn." So, I would also look in the canton of SO (Solothurn) in the village of Messen for more of the records of Mülchi. best wishes, Dave Schmutz -----Original Message----- From: Joseph E. Wolfe [mailto:joeedwolfe@juno.com] Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 10:59 AM To: GWill17438@aol.com Cc: dschmutz@es.com Subject: Re: [SWITZ] Looking for KADERLI relations You need to check the Bern Canton Microfilm records. In Swiss Surnames the Kaderli name appears in Mulchi (umlauted u) from before 1800. Most of the Church books for Bern have now been filmed and are available through your local family history center. Other places in Bern where the name appears are: Frutigen - from 1956 * (an asterisk indicates that anceestry is unknown or that the right of citizenship exists due to special statutory rules (adoption,divorceetc). Hochstetten (a) - from before 1800 Koppingen (a) Melchnau (a) Walterswil BE (a) jOE wOLFE ============================================= On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 08:50:40 EST GWill17438@aol.com writes: My 3rd-great grandfather, Benedict KADERLI, was born in 1832 at Mulchi, Canton Bern. He died in 1893 in Comal County, Texas. He was married to Anetta ZUEND in 1862 at Alstadten. She was born in 1839 at St. Galien and died in 1923 at New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas. Benedict emmigrated accompanied by his wife and their four children: Marie, Albert, Emil and Emilie to Texas from Le Havre, France on or about the 15th day of September 1873. They arrived at the port of New Orleans aborad the vessel Hamburg. After arriving in Texas, two additional children were born: Louis and Frieda. Benedict had two older brothers that also emmigrated to Texas: Jacob & Johannes. And two sisters: Anna Barbara "Belena", who married Abraham Louis BUECHE; and Marie KADERLI, who married Friedrich FAIGAUX. Does anyone recognize these KADERLI families? Would love to find the parents of Benedict! Thank you, Lisa Williams Texas