Hi Folks and Phyllis, the parish of Wiesbaum was it`s own with the towns of Mirbach and the mill near Wiesbaum, called Wiesbaumer Muehle. In 1905 the parish had 515 roman-catholic inhabitans, no other religion. >From these people 403 lived in Wiesbaum, where the parish church is with the name "St. Martinus Ep." In the town of Mirbach were 101 people and in the mill 10 peolpe. Parishes around are Berndorf, Esch, Glaadt, Hillesheim, Lissendorf, Miederehe and Uexheim. Before 1804 perhaps the towns belonged to an older parish in another town. These infos are in Trier and I do not have them at home. But Trier is only 12 miles from here. Wiesbaum is located in the high part of the Eifel lowlands. The area can be located at a web page I told you all some days ago, called the Eifel-webpage. The documents of the registry office (= "Standesamt") of this area are in Hillesheim (1798->1999) located in the house of "Verbandsgemeinde Hillesheim". And the parish documents are mostly at the central archice of the bishop place in Trier in the so-called "Bistumsarchiv Trier". Most of these copies are in Salt Lake City, too. Any questions ? sincerely Werner LICHTER from Gilzem, in the Eifel-lowlands in Germany, too ############################################################# Phyllis schrieb: > > Hi Folks: > Need some help if at all possible. My ggreatparents lived in WIESBAUM county of Daun in the Eifel vulcanic lowlands in the mid 1880's before emigrating to the the U.S in 1881. I am trying to find the Catholic Parish that they belonged to. > > Now the problem: Where would the records for the Catholic Churches in that vicinity be: WIESBAUM or TRIER? > > If it is TRIER, there are eight Catholic Churches that have had their records microfilmed, which means eight rolls of film. Would like to know if there is someone out there who might know which Catholic Churches existed in the area > described above. Would like to narrow it down to three or four. > > Thanks, > Phyllis > > my e-mail address is b.b@cyberback.com > > ==== TRIER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the > Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html