Dear Bob, thanks for the hint : I have immediately linked to it from the Zuerich pages within SwissGen (http://swiss.genealogy.net). Let me just add two more URLs of theirs : 1. Basic genealogy information, incl. a brief description of their sources (yes - unfortunately in German only) may be found on http://www.staatsarchiv.zh.ch/genealogie.html 2. A list (as RTF file) of all surnames with "old" (prior to 1800) citizenship in Canton Zuerich (sorted by community) may be downloaded from http://www.staatsarchiv.zh.ch/download/Z_BUERG.RTF This lists the surnames only; more info on these names is available from the book "Zuercher Familiennamen" http://swiss.genealogy.net/kant/zhnam-m.htm Data from this source may be requested (e-mail) from the Swiss Surname Directory http://swiss.genealogy.net/surnam-m.htm which unfortunately is temporarily not available (we are working on it : if you want to be informed about resumption of service, just send an empty mailto:SSD-update@bigfoot.com). Good luck with your further research - 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 > ---------- > Von: swiss-l1@juno.com[SMTP:swiss-l1@juno.com] > Gesendet: Montag, 25. Oktober 1999 23:15 > An: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com > Betreff: [SWITZ] Staatsarchiv in Zurich > > To Swiss listers: > > The Staatsarchiv in Zurich now has a Web Site. However it is all in > German, but with my Globalink Translator program I can translate about 85 > to 90 % of it into English. The Site has the following URL: > http://www.staatsarchiv.zh.ch/vitrine.html > > They also list a e-mail address on the Konkact page. The address is as > follows: > staatsarchivzh@jz.zh.ch > > I assume that all correspondence should be in German, since the Site is > written in German. I have not e-mail anything to them as yet, so this is > only a guess. > > Happy researching, Bob Pfister >