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David,The Hungerjahre would be listed here: http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Myadel/pandemics.htm.Greetings from Vancouver Island,Rosina T. Schmidt
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Thank you all for your input and thanks for the links. My direct ancestors, the Schank, Rettinger, Kathrein, and Fritz family all left in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s but so many of these name...
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Judy: What’s your connection to my Kathrein ancestors?Chuck Kathrein Maple Grove, Minnesota +1 320-412-0387
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Hi Peter,I believe the ancestor you are referring to is JohannVoltrauer. He is the cousin of mydirect ancestor Nikolaus Voltrauer. Their grandfather, Urban, was born in Volderau Tirol, from where he...
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Years ago I got some pepper seeds from Mr. Hussli (probably not the correct spelling) that his family had been growing from seed from the Banat. Just wondering if he is still active and willing to...
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Hi Hermann, I find it so exciting when two DS listers discover they are related! Hi cousin! I have at least 3 other cousins who are all DS listers.The only one, whom I knew before, is my first cousin...
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Hi Chuck. Our common ancestor would be Blasius Kathrein and Margaretha Merschdorf. Their son Karl is father to Anton (Katharina Niedermayer). Blasius other son George (Christina Mayer)had two...
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A thousand apologies but I found the article mentioned above. It is part of the Setschan Familienbuch I received. The section is called Secanj Historie and includes the following: Chronicle of the...
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Rosina;Many thanks for the clue to the famine. It appears likely that it could hae been the famine of 1853. Not very good weather for cam digging this week!Dave Dreyer On Friday, January 31, 2025 at...
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Dave,When the shutdown notices went out for former Banat mailing list (on RootsWeb), I initially saved only handful of posts related to my ancestors' surnames and villages. As the deadline approached,...
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Judy:Thanks for this!Anton Kathrein was my great grandfather. My great grandmother, Katherine Niedermier, perished in 1918 from the Spanish Flu. We found her grave in the Lefor cemetery Chuck Kathrein...
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Hello to everyone,As I am not an expert on Banat research, I hope Mr. Marquis could be helped by you. His data is below, leading to New Werbas on family KRIST.Thank you kindly and greetings from...
View ArticleRe: Johann KATZLER 1860-1934 and Barbara SCHNEIDER 1863-1945 of Pardan?
Hermann - Just yesterday I figured out that one of our matches in common on Ancestry - Holcomb2015 - descends from my great-great-great-grandfather Dominik LAMBERT *1813 Kathreinfeld, son of...
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Peter, I'm curious about the footnote you mentioned.Does it really say "welches" or does it say "welsches" ?
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Glenn, when your response arrived, I almost hyperventilated! Thank you so much for offering to help with my Moritzfeld research. I am interested in Peter Berger (b. 1830) and Barbara Wegleitner (b....
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Hi Irene,on FamilySearch you can find the Roman Catholic birth, marriage and death records from 1787 to 1852 for Moritzfeld (today known as Maureni in Romanian), while on Ancestry you can search in the...
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Hi Peter,The initial indication of theorigin of Urban Volderauer came from Maurice Woltrager (mwoltrager26), thefamily tree owner of this entry on geneanet.org.Urban (Urbany, Urbain)VOLDERAUER...
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Hi Ian,You wrote: " .... my great-great-great-grandfather Dominik LAMBERT *1813 Kathreinfeld, son of Pierre/Peter LAMBERT *1779 Triebswetter." Also you wrote, "I don't yet know where the LAMBERTs came...
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Hello Irene,I will try to attach a scan of the Moritzfeld book cover, but I am not sure how it will work. If that works I will send scans of several pages. If it doesn't work contact me directly...
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Glenn, the attachemt came through. It’s clear and crisp. Thank you so much.
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