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From: Marge Clark <>
Subject: Re: [POSEN] Birth records in different churchbooks?
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:10:45 -0400
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I don't know if this followed true in the old country. My grandmother was
Lutheran and my grandfather was catholic. Their daughters were lutheran and
their sons were catholic (they had 11 children). I have had to research in
both religions to find the records for the 11 children.

Marge
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Deems" <>


> I am wondering if any other researchers have run into this, and if anyone
can offer an explanation:
>
> I have found birth records of siblings (same parents, living in the same
place) in different churchbooks. Sometimes, it is a child in the middle, so
it doesn't seem to be a matter of the family relocating to another village.
>
> In most of the cases I have found, the churches are close. (such as
Lobsens, Wirsitz, Grabau, Nakel). Why, then, wouldn't the child be taken to
his "own" church???
>
> Many of my family groups have "gaps" of 3 to 10 years between children. I
am assuming that the birth record may be in another parish book . . . but
which one? Does one have to search in every parish within a 20-mile radius?
Is there any method to this madness?
>
> Thanks for any insight!
>
> Robin
> San Diego, CA


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