Dear all Just subscribed to this list and looking for guidance please. My great grandmother was Ellen Georgiana ANDERSON b1838, daughter of George and Mary (nee HAYLOCK) George was a West India Merchant so its quite possible that he might have travelled to Switzerland for some reason. Ellen Georgiana was first Christened at St Lukes, Chelsea, London in 1838 and again in 1848 at St Marylebone, London, with her siblings shortly after her mother died. I have for some time had a copy of the 1891 census page for her in Scotland where it gives her birth place as Geneva Switzerland and had thought it was simply an error on the part of the enumerator, however I have just found her in the 1861 with the same birth place, once I can understand but twice surely not? To confuse matters more her birth place in 1871 is given as Genoa, 1881 as England as is the 1901. The question is, did foreigners register their births while in Geneva? the answer I suspect to be a resounding no but had to ask the question. Any help or guidance appreciated Best wishes Nivard Ovington Cornwall (UK) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.10 - Release Date: 13/05/2005
> Von: Nivard Ovington [mailto:ovington1@btconnect.com] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Mai 2005 22:18 > [...] > The question is, did foreigners register their births while > in Geneva? the answer I suspect to be a resounding no > but had to ask the question. All births are registered now - since the introduction of the modern Civil Registry System in 1876 - but you are looking for an event in 1838. In 1838 it would not have been registered in St.Gallen (where I live), and I doubt it would be registered in Geneva - but then almost everything in Switzerland is organised differently in different cantons ;-). I would therefore recommend you just enquire at the Geneva Civil Registry Office whether any suitable records were kept in Geneva at the time (and have survived). mailto:etat-civil@ville-ge.ch Good luck and best regards - Wolf __________________ Wolf Seelentag, Ph.D. Reherstr. 19 CH - 9016 St.Gallen +41 (0) 71 - 288 51 21 wolf.seelentag@swissonline.ch