Geneva, Switzerland, 3 November 1999-11-03 Hello Everyone, Just wish that more people in the genealogy fields and doing work in the field would do more pre-planning and research before they do research! SMILE Sincerely yours, Jacques de Guise, Director CEG / CGR / EIG Cabinet d'Etudes Genealogiques Center for Genealogical Research Estudio de Investigaciones Genealogicas Geneve - Geneva - Ginebra Suisse / Switzerland / Suiza E-mail: cgr@genealogyrsch.com genrsch@gve.ch genrsch@canada.com -----Original Message----- From: Outriggger@aol.com [SMTP:Outriggger@aol.com] Sent: 3. novembre 1999 21:58 To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SWITZ] Switzerland trip a success Friends, Trips like this show the extreme value of pre-planning. Pete Mattli <outriggger@aol.com> Ft. Myers, FL >---------- Subj: [SWITZ] Switzerland trip a success Date: 11/03/1999 2:19:59 PM Eastern Standard Time From: donlyn@magick.net (Don Stellman) To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Due to the help we received from the SWITZERLAND-L list members, our genealogy trip to Switzerland was a huge success. We were greeted at the Zurich airport by Peter a SWITZERLAND-L list member who had previously taken the time to find our grandfather's (Daniel Thomann) birth record at the Registrar's Office in Baden, Canton Aargau. He took us there to get a copy of the record. He had made arrangements to get the keys to the church where our grandfather was baptized. He spent two days taking us around Baden and to Steinenbuhl where our great grandfather had a restaurant that is still in use. He had arranged for us to meet a cousin there (we did not know we had living relations in Switzerland), and we all had lunch together. Our cousin's grandfather and our grandfather were brothers. Our cousin gave us a large genealogy chart of all of our relations in Switzerland going back to the 1600s. The Swiss part of our family had lost contact with my grandfather and his sister after they emigrated to America so we are getting together a large chart with USA Thomans (the second "n" in Thomann was dropped after coming to America). The birth registration determined where in Switzerland our Thomanns held citizenship. It was in Brienz, Canton Bern, over 100 miles south of the Baden area! This was in 1809 and they floated the River Aare all of the way to the Baden area with their personal possessions and their animals. We met our cousin in Brienz. He and his wife took us out to lunch, and then we went for dessert at the home of the last Thomann to live in Brienz. After leaving Brienz, we met with a researcher in Bern. By that time we had already been given so much Thomann information that we only looked at a couple of things with him at the archives. I am glad we did though because it made us realize how impossible it would have been for the two of us by ourselves to get any information from the old records. We could not even read the Thomann name in the old script after he pointed it out to us. (Pete from Florida had highly recommended we contact a researcher before we left home, thanks Pete). Margaret and several other people from the list gave us suggestions or information that helped to make our trip a success! Thank you all. Lynda Stellman ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== Swiss Resource Site http://swiss.genealogy.net