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Thank you for this AI translation, and to others who also provided translation input and comments. I will add that I now better understand why so many of our ancestors were willing to emigrate to the...
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All thanks should go to Bill Knuttel. He endured several hours of San Francisco bumper to bumper rush hour traffic to make all this happen. With considerable nagging from my family I am in the final...
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Thank you Dave / Bill for this, I’ve never seen one. I wonder if there was a similar proclamation from queen Anne of England? Some background to my question : I recently did my dna on ancestry (ethnic...
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Here is a link to the Irish Palatine Association: Welcome to the Irish Palatine AssociationWelcome to the Irish Palatine AssociationWelcome to the Irish Palatine Association, Museum and Heritage...
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Hi Ron,I found your latest discussion with Dave/Bill very interesting regarding the large number of Palatines that ended up in Ireland. There were single family migrations from unusual places.I found...
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Hi Ron and Peter,Speaking of interesting single family migrations: The Fixari/Fixary family in the Banat are descended from Pierre Joseph FITZHARI, the only son of Albert FITZHARIS, an “Irish captain”...
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Eileen;Yes, I clearly lost focus and didn't make my points. Maybe I had a Joe Biden moment.I would turn the pages of this article over to someone who would pursue the clues in the article to develop...
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Hi Linda, Peter and Darrell, Thank you for your interesting comments. History does seem to be like a series of related dominoes, (or opening and closing doors).England lost the American colonies in...
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All, I don't know if this is well known or not, but there is an area in east, central NYS (Montgomery Co.) called Palatine Bridge, Town of Palatine. Many Palatine Germans immigrated there. It's along...
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DaveI’m located in Northern California maybe about 2 hours from you. I’d be willing to take the Banat family books for North American localities. I would need some direction on what the plans are for...
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Dave,Daniel Hilaire was interested in creating a family book for Lefor, North Dakota. I had agreed to help with the project, but plans are on hold because the archdiocese that hold records for the...
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KarenIn 1998 there was a 100 year anniversary book on the history of Lefor and st Elizabeth’s church. There are 32 pages of text and 34 pages of baptisms, marriages and deaths starting in 1901 and...
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Hi Steve,It’s great to hear from you. Would you be willing to share the spreadsheets you have? That would be a good start to a draft for a book. You can sent them to me off-list at "karen@...”.With...
View ArticleHelp (again!) finding Mathias Vareng's first wife's maiden name
Hello,First of all, thank you for the great discussions on the Banat Colonization advertisement and its translation.Secondly, I am doggedly trying to find the name of my ancestor Mathias Vareng's wife....
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Hello Sharon,the problem with this is that in the late 1700s, women's full names were very rarely recorded in church records. Most of the time, only the first name (e.g. Margaretha, Catharina, etc.)...
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Correction to the email address - "karen@...”Sorry!
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Hello Sharon,I checked the Grabatz Familienbuch. I’m sorry, but there is no Vareng, Vargeng, or Warcken to be found.Dolores Barber
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Dave, Thanks for clarifying for me. Yes, I’ll take the files to explore how to access the records. Working through them might take some time, but it will be well worth the effort. If you have any...
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Karen;Good to hear from you.I came in this afternoon intending to turn on my machine and to write a general message about how to write a family book for a North American locality.Lefor would be a...
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