This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LAGING-DAHSE, STECH-ARNDT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XhB.2ACE/639.1.2 Message Board Post: I TOO AM LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON THE NEW BIELAU LUTHERAN CHURCH SOUTH OF WEIMAR. BOTH MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS WENT TO THE CHURCH. I WAS TOLD THAT MY G GRANDFATHER, H. WILLIAM LAGING HELPED IN ESTABLISHING THE CHURCH AND THAT HIS NAME IS LISTED ON A PLAQUE SOME WHERE. HIS WIFES NAME WAS MARY DAHSE, DAUGHTER OF LEVIN DAHSE AND KOHN. I HAVE BEEN TO THE CHURCH FOR JUST A SHORT VISIT AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL, WISH I COULD ATTEND THE CHURCH. MY OTHER G GRANDFATHER, JOACHIM STECH AND WIFE, MARY ARNDT, ARE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY THERE ON THE GROUNDS. MY FATHER, WERNER LAGING WAS BAPTIZED THERE. HIS PARENTS, CHAS LAGING AND EMMA STECH WERE MARRIED IN HER PARENTS HOME BY THE PASTOR FROM THE CHURCH, ALSO SOME OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS TOO. THEY ALSO ATTENDED SCHOOL IN THE AREA, I HAPPENED TO FIND ONE SISTER LISTED IN ONE OF THE SCHOOLS. I AM WONDERING IF THERE IS ANY PLACE TO VIEW THE RECORDS OF THE CHURCH, OR SOMEONE THAT I CAN CONTACT TO LOOK UP SOME OF THE INFORMATION. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO PAY FOR THE WORK AND COPIES OF IT. THANK YOU, ARLENE (LAGING) ORR