As you folks know, we publish the Map Guide to German Parish Registers series of books. All the books currently in print (23 as of today) are available at the Family Roots Publishing website. With the exception of Volume 23 – which is an index to the Bavarian towns in volumes 13 through 22, as well as a Bavarian Gazetteer, I have placed a town index within the description of each book.
Since the indexes are posted within the descriptions, a visitor to the website can simply type the name of the community they are interested in – in the “Product Search” box, and quickly see what German States (and Map Guide) that place is found in. (Note that if the town name includes an umlaut, that should be included in the Product Search.)
As an example, I searched for a place called Wagenbach, and found that a place by that name is located in both Baden, and the Donaukreis area of Württemberg – with links to both soft and hard cover books that give information about the parishes of those communities.
Also note that the series is only about 1/2 done, so all of Germany isn’t covered yet – meaning that all German towns are not found on the website yet… But we’re working on it.
I am tracing a woman who lived in the Tiengen-Waldshut Baden area in the later 1700’s. The record for the family, written at the church in Tiengen in 1824, gives her birth place as one of these, if I can read it right:
Nojgens, Nohgens, Noggens, Nosgens
Is there any town in the Baden, or northern Switzerland, area that this might be? I’ve looked and found nothing.
Yes – Tiengen is a town in the Amt (like county) & Kreis (larger district) of Waldshut – located in the historic grandduchy of Baden. The Catholics had their own church in Tiengen, and the Lutherans went to church in Waldshut (a town in the Amt of Waldshut). Tiegen is just 2 or 3 miles to the east of Waldshut (the town). You’re in luck, in that the parish registers have been filmed for both the Lutherans and Catholics, making research relatively easy. For further info., see the Map Guide book for Baden: http://www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product_view.php?id=14
I am searching for information about ottelie duffel tenfel born in niklashausen about 1830 she moved to Australia about 1854 I wonder if you could help me find a website that may help me, thank deirdre smith.
We had our 83 year old father do the Ancestry.com DNA testing, and one of his “relatives” is Mary Somogyi of St. Louis, MO. We descend from the line of James Frost, 1742 who was born in New Jersey and died 1815
In North Carolina. He married Isabella Van Dyke. Have followed Ancestry.com for years and cannot locate
Much info on this person. Any suggestions are appreciated.