In a message dated 12/26/2002 12:01:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] (Russell Buster) writes: > My maternal great grandfather Caspar Rubli lived in canton Zurich in the > middle 1860s..... At least two of the children claimed in later life that > the town > of Dachsen was their home. One of the children named Barbara ...named > Winterthur as her last residence....I would like to learn the birthplaces > and birthdates of the rest of the children, the birthplaces and birthdates > of their father and mother, and the place and date of their marriage. How > could I go about learning this information? I do not speak or read German. > Hello Russell: Without knowing the town in Canton Zurich where the family lived, this might be a difficult search. However, there are some possible leads at the LDS site. Although the Dachsen records have not been filmed, there are some Rubli entries for that town, and the source info might help you. Also, there are several earlier Caspar Rubli entries for the town of Uhwiesen in Zurich. Again, I do not believe these records have been filmed, but you could check the source data stated in the entries. Uhwiesen is fairly close to Dachsen, to the west. You also mentioned Winterthur. Those records have been filmed by LDS. If Barbara was born or married there, but her family was from a different town, her home town name should be mentioned in the records. You don't have to be knowledgeable in German to extract the important data from these records, and it is usually fairly easy, especially in these later records, to identify names, towns, and dates. There might be someone at your local FHC who can help if you get stuck. The Swiss also have a record called a Burgerrodel, which is a listing of citizens of a town. I don't know if copies are also maintained at the Canton level, but this might also be a source, and perhaps a more knowledgeable person on the list could give you more information about the Burgerrodel. Hope this helps a little. Paul C. Miller