Homer - Fritz is another form of Frederick, probably from an earlier form as Fridolin. It is a diminutive. And the information on Billeter was that you have to be careful using him - but this is true of any independent research. Always return to the source. His information is very good in many ways giving you a family and somewhere to work from - especially if the records that he worked from are very hard to read. Besides the NOTES many of his work was later converted into book form and our library has a few of these. It was done for the purposes mainly ,I believe, of entering people into the Mormon ritual of baptism, endowment and sealings. One drawback to his work is that he only worked with the church records. And if the church records started in 1671 (as is the case of Rafz, Zurich Canton) then there is no more in his research - however there are also census records for Rafz that begin in 1634 (a good 30 some years earlier than his records). Also again for Zurich Canton I have discovered a new source as Household Registers (another form of census) that has the birth dates and marriage dates of most of the living only at the time of this census. Finally, if a female married out of the community (church book) there is a good chance unless he happened to be t\working on that family in another community that there is no further information on the female (as to marriage, etc.) But finally as a said earlier a good source to get all your ducks in a row. I always check Billeter when I find someone new to research. Sorry to be so long winded but I hope this will be of help to you. I am going to post this on the Swiss roots web also in the hopes that it might be of help to someone. Regards Joe Wolfe On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 20:14:30 -0600 "Homer Moore" <hpmoore@FoxValley.net> writes: > Joe, > > You seem very knowledgeable about Billeter's notes. I have the film > covering the MOOR surname and I noticed that "Fritz" seemed to be > within almost every family. Any thought on that? I saw some > discussion about Billeter's Notes several weeks ago on the Swiss > Mailing List but for the life of me I can't find it again. Do you > recall that/those messages? > > Thanking you in advance. > > Homer Moore---researching MOOR-KUPFER > > hpmoore@FoxValley.net