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From: Johnna St Clair <>
Subject: Re: Finding Church records
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:31:31 -0500


Phyllis:

I spent 7 years trying in to get data for Namborn, Saarland. The only
roll of film for Namborn that came up on the LDS catalog was # 1351266
for 1807-1815. Not a very inclusive film. My ancestor was the first
child of parents married in 1818 and was born in 1819. Then I tried
calling the parish office, writing to Trier, sending letters and money
to both the Catholic Parish and the Village Clerk. No luck whatsover.
The Catholic Parish did not even answer the telephone. No answering
machine either. Three years later, no written reply from the Parish.
My $25 vanished.

The breakthrough for me came when I was looking at the film notes for
film of records for a nearby village, Furschweiler. This film ( #
1055090) includes Namborn, but did not come up with a place search for
Namborn. So does # 1055091. So does #1055096, even though the notes
don't say so. It goes on and on for several more films.
I also went to Rootsweb's Worldconnect and searched for entries with
the location 'Namborn' which included sources. Someone else had found
people in Namborn listed in the Oberkirchen records. His very well
documented sources included the film #1055096.
Another note: One roll of film listed the contents as church records,
but I found that civil records were also sprinkled in. Thus giving, at
times, double documentation for some people.

I suppose that the disjointed nature of the record keeping comes from
wars and reorganization of municipalities.

So, Richard gives good advice. Look in the surrounding villages. Go
to the LDS catalog and read all the film notes for the nearby village.

Johnna St Clair


Richard Mondloch wrote:

> Phyllis
>
> I'm not positive; but I don't think you'll find any border (french or
> german) village records on films from nearby Lux parishes. I've been
> thru Lux-FHC films for Mondorf-les-Baines, and Remerschen and do not
> recall seeing any records from parishes now located in parts of
> France's Moselle region. While this village was likely part of GDL in
> mid 1700's, it's parish records should have remained locally after the
> area became part of France.
>
> If you've not already done so, you might check descriptions/contents
> of films for the largest nearby French town/parish, like Metz or
> Thionville.
>
> Good Luck;
> Richard
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "phyllis" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:23 PM
> Subject: finding church records
>
>
>> Hi:
>> I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm trying to find some early church
>> records on some of my ancestors who came from Volmerange-les-Mines.
>> It is a border town between Luxembourg and France. The FHL only list
>> two records for this town. One is a book of marriages (of which no
>> photocopies can be made) and the other is church records for the
>> 1800's. I'm looking for records for the mid to early 1700's. Since
>> this little town was a border town can anyone who has researched this
>> part of Luxembourg give me the names of towns in Luxembourg that
>> might contain records for Volmerange-les-Mines?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phyllis
>>
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