Thursday, January 21, 2010

The IGI (International Genealogical Index)

Jansons and Fuchs came from a town called Balzfeld, in the municipality of Deilheim, district of Rhein-Nekkar in Karlsrhue County, in the state of Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany...., and, they were Roman Catholic (RK).
HERE'S the LINK to the beginning of theGerman IGI; since I posted this, they've updated  and streamlined it.  If you use Chrome, it'll translate automatically (if you've set it that way).  If not, type Balzfeld in the "suchen" box.  You'll get a page with Balzfeld listed 4 times for different eras.  Click the blue links in the second last column for the lists of names.

These are church records from a Catholic town, so the lists includes pretty much every family who had a wedding or kids in those years.  It's fun to scroll thru them and see all the names you recognize from Buckman and central Minnesota, as well as from the Janson family tree--Epp, Ronellenfitch, Janson, Brentzinger, Froehlich, Greulich, Fuchs, Knopf-- families who lived there for generations, but who finally decided to leave for America, so we could have a better life, not to mention more choice of whom to marry.

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