Tom, I gave information on the Bistumarchiv based on visits in 1995 & 1997. At that time, they allowed pencils, not pens. I could give you a website maintained by someone on another list which has links to numerous personal sites as well as a list of the family books which are available in Bitburg, at Haus Beda. The web-site is in German, since the person lives in Bitburg. Most of my connections which involve this list are near Bitburg. I do have Bagers in Niederlinxweiler (with a connection to Simmern) As they were not Catholic, those records come from an archive in Boppard. There's more than one archive in Koblenz. I've been in 2. The big, new one & the old one at Karmelittestrasse. I can tell you from experience, unlike the Bistumarchiv, they are not happy to see Americans coming. You might have some luck by writing, in English. Believe me, writing in English is not a draw-back. My only rule of thumb is to attempt to use as little American slang as possible. (My apologies to German readers as I did not follow my own rule in this, since my primary reader is also American) I've seen photocopy machine in Germany, Luxembourg & Belgium. Prices are in line with US prices for do-it-yourself copies. Check the archive of the Eifel-DEU list for information on newspapers. If anyone else can add to this, please do. Kathy Kathy, Thanks for the directions to the Bistumarchiv. Earlier information from another researcher indicated that p'copies were available, but that they were quite expensive, perhaps 5e per page (that's about $4.50). But that was old information, and things may have changed. Do you know of other archives in the area of Trier, where one might find old newspapers, city/village administrative records, taxation records, conscription records? I have been researching the catalogs of the archives in Köln, Koblenz, and others, but I haven't had a lot of luck so far. An essential problem is knowing the best keywords for searches online, in German. Thomas Kohn Dayton OH researching the towns of Igel, Wasserliesch, Oberbilligerbrücke, Wasserbillig, Langsur, Tawern, Temmels, Mertert, Grewenich for KOHN, REINERT, DAHM, BLASIUS, GHIWER (also KIEFER), SCHARFBILLIG, KESSLER, PETERS, SIX, GASPER, GILLEN, STREIT, GRADIG, PIROTTE, SCHANDEGG (also SCHADEGG), SCHANDLER, SCHWINDEN, SIMEON, THUMMEL.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Kathy, could you state the url of the website you mentioned for all of us ? I've been searching the area of Simmern as well, also in some other smaller villages around there. TIA, Andreas -----Original Message----- From: kathy metzen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Montag, 3. Juni 2002 22:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TRIER-ROOTS-L] Bistumarchiv directions & others Tom, I gave information on the Bistumarchiv based on visits in 1995 & 1997. At that time, they allowed pencils, not pens. I could give you a website maintained by someone on another list which has links to numerous personal sites as well as a list of the family books which are available in Bitburg, at Haus Beda. The web-site is in German, since the person lives in Bitburg. Most of my connections which involve this list are near Bitburg. I do have Bagers in Niederlinxweiler (with a connection to Simmern) As they were not Catholic, those records come from an archive in Boppard. There's more than one archive in Koblenz. I've been in 2. The big, new one & the old one at Karmelittestrasse. I can tell you from experience, unlike the Bistumarchiv, they are not happy to see Americans coming. You might have some luck by writing, in English. Believe me, writing in English is not a draw-back. My only rule of thumb is to attempt to use as little American slang as possible. (My apologies to German readers as I did not follow my own rule in this, since my primary reader is also American) I've seen photocopy machine in Germany, Luxembourg & Belgium. Prices are in line with US prices for do-it-yourself copies. Check the archive of the Eifel-DEU list for information on newspapers. If anyone else can add to this, please do. Kathy Kathy, Thanks for the directions to the Bistumarchiv. Earlier information from another researcher indicated that p'copies were available, but that they were quite expensive, perhaps 5e per page (that's about $4.50). But that was old information, and things may have changed. Do you know of other archives in the area of Trier, where one might find old newspapers, city/village administrative records, taxation records, conscription records? I have been researching the catalogs of the archives in Köln, Koblenz, and others, but I haven't had a lot of luck so far. An essential problem is knowing the best keywords for searches online, in German. Thomas Kohn Dayton OH researching the towns of Igel, Wasserliesch, Oberbilligerbrücke, Wasserbillig, Langsur, Tawern, Temmels, Mertert, Grewenich for KOHN, REINERT, DAHM, BLASIUS, GHIWER (also KIEFER), SCHARFBILLIG, KESSLER, PETERS, SIX, GASPER, GILLEN, STREIT, GRADIG, PIROTTE, SCHANDEGG (also SCHADEGG), SCHANDLER, SCHWINDEN, SIMEON, THUMMEL.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ==== TRIER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== Going on vacation longer than 4 days? Go to http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/TRIER-ROOTS.html to unsubscribe