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From: "guy grenny" <>
Subject: Re: [SWITZ] Great news for Aargau researchers!
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:47:57 -0800
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Dear Jay,
as far as I know from Dr. Steiner's, these are the very first and only two CDs created and available at this point. But lets hope that other Swiss historians/genealogists will follow suite and are encouraged to make these precious records available to interested descendents.
Hanneli
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Muther
To: guy grenny
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [SWITZ] Great news for Aargau researchers!


How about canton Uri. Anything in print from there. Jay Muther

>Well, for some of you anyway!
>Dear Listers,
>if you are lucky enough to have ancestors from:
> LEUTWIL, DÜRRENÄSCH (Duerrenaesch), BONISWIL-Oberdorf
>(upper-village),Kanton Aargau between 1573-1820;
>and/or from:
> GONTENSCHWIL or ZETZWIL, Kt. AG between 1558-1816
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>you can now view those Parish Records from your own CD-Roms, on your
>own little PC !! Unheard of, you say? Until now!
>This is an absolute premier edition, thanks to literally thousands of
>hours of transcribing old parish ledgers written in old German script
>and often latin by Dr. Peter Steiner, President of the Historical
>Society Wynental (HVW)
>Http://www.hvw.ch
>in collaboration with Dr. Rolf Bolliger and Dr. Steiner's son Daniel,
>the computer whiz who created the two CD's that are now available to
>us researchers for SFr. 45.00 each plus postage. Write to
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>He understands English, but make it brief.
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>In Dr. Steiner's words, "you can check for your names and dates
>arranged in easy lists - search, arrange, filter -
>for MS-Word and MS-Excel.
>This is not only interesting for genealogists, but also for true
>family historians: after Daniel had entered all the tens of thousands
>of names and dates into the first CD, he found he had space left over
>and - like the brilliant young man he is - went back to his Dad.
>Between them they filled the leftover space with old pictures, old
>maps, village views, old houses, stained glass windows of churches,
>interesting historic information, registers of clerics, city
>officials, even innkeepers. In short, a literal treasure trove if
>you're fortunate enough to have picked ancestors from these little
>towns, like I did. Lucky me.
>Hope this helps someone.
>Hanneli
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