I am a new lister and find this board very interesting and informative. Now I have a question about a site I found.The original site is www.swissgenealogie.ch/GHGZ/hilfsmittel/register/ahnennamen.htm. It seems to be a genealogy society in Zurich. I used www.systranbox.com/box (great site) to translate it from German, but I am confused. The following is the information in which I am interested, but don't know what I'm supposed to do with! Local register of the GHGZ ancestor lists 47-45 Nuglar-St. Pantaleon SO Gaugler, Anna Barbara 47-44 Nuglar-St. Pantaleon SO Hofmeier, Josef 47-22 Nuglar-St. Pantaleon SO Hofmeier, Karl 47-11 Nuglar-St. Pantaleon SO Hofmeier, Theresia Is this a list of who can assist with research? If so, how would I contact them? I hope someone can help me. Diane

> Von: Winters [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Samstag, 3. August 2002 20:48 > An: [email protected] > > I am a new lister and find this board very interesting and > informative. Now I have a question about a site I found.The > original site is > www.swissgenealogie.ch/GHGZ/hilfsmittel/register/ahnennamen.htm > It seems to be a genealogy society in Zurich. I used > www.systranbox.com/box (great site) to translate it from > German, but I am confused. The following is the information > in which I am interested, but don't know what I'm supposed to do with! > > Local register of the GHGZ ancestor lists > 47-45 Nuglar-St. Pantaleon SO Gaugler, Anna Barbara > 47-44 Nuglar-St. Pantaleon SO Hofmeier, Josef > 47-22 Nuglar-St. Pantaleon SO Hofmeier, Karl > 47-11 Nuglar-St. Pantaleon SO Hofmeier, Theresia > Is this a list of who can assist with research? If so, how > would I contact them? I hope someone can help me. > Diane Dear Diane, true - GHGZ stands for "Genealogische Heraldische Gesellschaft Zuerich", i.e. the Zuerich genealogical society; unfortunately their pages are in German only (to date), but you'll find some very basic contact info (described in English) on http://www.swissgenealogie.ch/ver/zhinfo-e.htm The list you mention refers to a very nice collection of genealogies compiled by Mario von Moos on the occasion of their 75th anniversary: 88 of their members had submitted the first 6 geneartions of their ancestors: http://www.swissgenealogie.ch/GHGZ/hilfsmittel/buch.htm There are two indices - one by names and one by locations (which is the one you had looked at) - but unfortunately there is no link back from the index pages to the actual book, which makes things a bit confusing if you just find the index page via a search engine (which is why I cc their webmaster on this). What all listings have in common is "47" at the beginning - so I'm pretty sure this will refer to their member "47" in the list: you best contact the society and ask if they could give you address detail for this person, in order to get in touch with her/him directly. The number after the hyphen will be the "Kekule number", the most widely used numbering system used in German speaking parts of the world. It would be too extensive to explain it here in detail - but e.g. 11 Theresia Hofmeier would be the daughter of 22 Karl Hofmeier, who would be the son of 44 Josef Hofmeier and his wife 45 Anna Barbara Gaugler. All these people were citizens of Nuglar-St.Pantaleon in canton Solothurn. So if "your" Gaugler were also from Nuglar-St.Pantaleon it certainly would be worthwhile to contact the submitter; on the other hand, Gaugler were also long established families (i.e. prior to 1800) in several other Solothurn communities. Best regards - Wolf __________________ Wolf Seelentag, Ph.D. Reherstr. 19 CH - 9016 St.Gallen +41 (0) 71 - 288 51 21 [email protected]