Correct spelling is Recherswil. To locate, go SE of Solothurn to Gerlafingen. It is just a tad SSE of Gerlafingen. Postal code is 4565. Population is 1630. Recherswil has its own parish. Church records of Canton Solothurn have not been filmed, according to: ===== Church records filmed by LDS http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/CH/kibu/#ENGLISH ===== For more info, you might write to either Zivilstandsamt (if more recent than 1875) or to Staatsarchiv (if time frame you are interested in is mainly before 1875). Zivilstandsamt is the civil/municipal registrar. Staatsarchiv is the cantonal archive. I construe a canton to be a state, though many think of it as a county. Switzerland lacks a strong central (federal) government, so the 26 cantons each have more authority than counties or states in US. ===== Staatsarchiv Solothurn Bielstrasse 41 4509 Solothurn Switzerland - OR - e-mail: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> ===== Zivilstandsamt 4565 Recherswil (SO) Switzerland ===== Suggest you write a short note in English, and e-mail it to the very dedicated people at the German Genealogy Organization for a FREE translation into German. Then send the German version of your note to the appropriate address in Switzerland. See: ===== German GenealogyTranslation Team http://www.genealogy.net/gene/misc/translation.html ===== You will want to keep your note short [under 30 lines], since short requests go to the head of the queue. Be sure to thank the translator. It is their only recompense. Good luck. Pete Mattli [email protected] [[3-ggg's] =========================================== Subj: [SWITZ] SWITZ Canton Solothurn Date: 8/24/2002 10:46:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) Hi I just discovered my great Grandfather Joseph STRUB was born in Canton Solothurn ... the village is Rechersvil ... has anyone heard of this village? I can find Solothurn but not the little village ... maybe I am spelling it wrong? Thank you Jeanie