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From: "Wolf Zscheile" <>
Subject: [Saxony] FW: [SAXONY_ROOTS] Meyer in Teutschenthal
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:28:00 -0600


Might be of interest to someone...

Wolf

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Rueffer [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:05 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [SAXONY_ROOTS] Meyer in Teutschenthal


Hi Melissa, sorry list,

all my mails to you, Melissa, came back:
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I do not understand what that means. Therefore through the list:

Hi, Melissa,

the Pastor asked me to phone again mid-January to make a date to look at the
records. I hope I will not forget it.

The problem are not the requests for family research, it is the general
situation of the (Lutheran) church in former Eastern Germany. As we are here
in the center of the reformation in Germany (the towns were Luther was born,
has lived and worked as a professor, and died are close to Halle and
Teutschenthal) almost 100 per cent of the people were Lutherans until 1945.
Due to the anti religious politics of the German communists today only about
15 per cent of the people are stilll members of the church, with much more
old people (due to the German law not contributing to the church) than
younger. Therefore the pastors had to serve for more than one parish, in the
case of the Teutschenthal pastor for six. Most parishes consist of more than
one village, so I suppose he had to serve a dozen or so villages. By the
way, the village Teutschenthal is the largest settlement in the county
called Saalkreis. May be not really large for urban standards, but anyhow
about 8,000 inhabitants.

As the pastor has six parishes he also has to deal with six communities, six
parish records, and at least with six old churches, which have probably to
be reconstruct one after the other after the fourty years in which it was
very difficult to organize that.

So, it is probably mainly the normal work, not (only) the amount of church
book requests which is the limiting factor. The pastor told me that in
former years he had an old member of the parish who did the record search,
but at the moment there is no one.

I hope you can understand the difficult situation.

Frohe Weihnachten und ein glueckliches Neues Jahr,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,

Thomas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Melissa" <>
To: "'Thomas Rueffer'" <>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:52 AM
Subject: RE: Meyer in Teutschenthal


> Hi Thomas,
>
> That would be great if you don't mind. I do imagine that they get
> inundated with requests although I imagine that parish as being fairly
> small from what I can tell on the map. One day I'm going to see for
> myself.
>
> If you have any family in the states that you need help with let me
> know. I'd be happy to help.
>
> Melissa




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