Dear Mr. Lichter, I'm sorry to reply to the list but when I tried to send this to just Mr. Lichter my mail program said the address was incorrect. I belong to this list but mostly just read others' entries. My family is from Bourglinster and Junglinster, Luxembourg. I have had very little success researching. Do you know if there are any family or church books for those 2 places? Any help would be appreciated. My relatives are not in the Luxembourgers in the New World. Thank you in advance, Jenny Schuder Kilen Lichter-WJ@t-online.de (Werner Johannes Lichter) wrote: Hello readers, Bernie asked a interesting question. I looked into my database for Trier family books and found the following information. In the 1930`s a Mr. Wurringen wrote the first family books for the mosel valley and the city of Trier. These books are now at the moment the most important books after the church books. They show in sorted entries by family a-->z the most (not all !) families in the at the end of this email noted family books. Mr. Wurringen was working as a "Dechant" in the catholic region of Trier. He listed no other religious communities, not the jewish and not the protestant. The enties are not complete, what we knowe today is he had not written down what he could not read and he wrote no unknown names. At the end we now knowe that Mr. Wurringen was an important local genealogist but not correct, only 70% of all entries of Trier church books are noted in his books. Alle his books are written by handwriting in the old german script, called suetterlin. This is very hard to read for 98% of all germans today. I did need 6 monthe to read a little but now I am good, I think, in reading the old handwriting 1450-1943. My grandfather Johann Lichter, called Schmatten Hens, was a blacksmith. In his books he wrote in the 1960`s 40% of his entries in Suetterlin and his half sister Susanna Leiberts had a cook book written in the 1950->1968 in 100% old german script and very hard to read. All germans after 1945 now only the international writing, and would be very amused to see how their ancestors wrote only 2 generations ago. Back to the family books: Clap your hand for this working ants. sincerely and best wishes to all your volunteer Werner LICHTER Ok, this is all I knowe for today. I hope this will help some people of this list ########################################################################## > ==== TRIER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the > Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html ==== TRIER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== Brother, Can you spare $10 for Rootsweb? Ask me why ... mailto:dsam@wasatch.com ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.