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From: "Jay and Diana" <>
Subject: RE: [POSEN] Birth records in different churchbooks?
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:52:10 -0700
In-Reply-To: <004b01c30080$17ee1a40$74195e18@san.rr.com>


I didn't have my firstborn baptised fast enough to suit my grandmother;
so she set it up at her church and I was given marching orders to a town
30 miles from mine! I suppose that could have happened in Poland
occasionally, also.:-)

Diana Grzelak Needham

There is always a song for those who wish to sing.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Deems [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 4:14 PM
> To:
> Subject: [POSEN] Birth records in different churchbooks?
>
> 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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