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From: =James Birkholz= <>
Subject: Re: [POSEN] Alden records, Kreis Wongrowitz
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:40:10 -0500


At 8:51 PM -0500 10/10/99, Nancy Zuber/Del Smith wrote:
>Would someone please look up the town Alden in Meyers for me? Where
>would the church have been? Am wondering where to look for these LDS
>records.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Nancy in Minnesota
>
According to Meyers gazetteer...

Alden (prev. 'Kakulin'), rural community of 325 residents, Kreis
Wongrowitz, Posen.
Civil reg. office was in Proberen.

Alden was about two villages northeast of Schokken, in southern Kr. Wongrowitz.
I would guess that Schokken (now 'Skoki'), which had both Catholic and
Protestant churches, would be where your ancestors worshipped. The LDS has
films:

Note

Location

Film
Taufen, Heiraten, Tote 1688-1778

FHL INTL Film

752858 Item 11

Taufen, Heiraten, Tote 1680-1794 (Reform.)
Taufen, Heiraten 1790-1809 Taufen,
Heiraten, Tote 1816-1821 Heiraten
1824-1830

FHL INTL Film

752859

Taufen 1776-1796, 1791-1831, 1797-1814

FHL INTL Film

752860

Taufen 1815-1829

FHL INTL Film

752861

Taufen 1822-1865

FHL INTL Film

752862

Taufen 1830-1865

FHL INTL Film

752863

Heiraten 1776-1850, 1831-1865, 1851-1865

FHL INTL Film

752864

Tote 1776-1814, 1794-1832, 1815-1825,
1822-1830

FHL INTL Film

752865

Tote 1826-1837, 1831-1865

FHL INTL Film

752866

Tote 1838-1865

FHL INTL Film

752867

They have some films of the civil records for Proberen also...

Geburten, Heiraten, Tote 1875-1876

FHL INTL Film

1191037 Items 5-10

Geburten, Heiraten, Tote 1877

FHL INTL Film

1191038 Items 1-4

Geburten, Heiraten 1878 Geburten 1879
Tote 1878-1879 Heiraten 1879 Geburten,
Heiraten, Tote 1880 Geburten, Heiraten
1881

FHL INTL Film

1552337 Items 4-14

Tote 1881 Geburten, Heiraten, Tote
1882-1884

FHL INTL Film

1552338 Items 1-10

(Map copy offer: #276 right)

Hope this helps,
James Birkholz,

{Rootsweb supporter}

======== This information extracted from: ==========
"Meyers Orts- & Verkehrs- Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs - 1912"
for info:
http://www.flash.net/~birchwd/Genealogy/GGRA/Resources/Meyers.html
======= (Civil reg. offices started about 1874) ========

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