Urban TANNER, #14
In my last Urban Tanner comment, I expressed by frustration and suggested that maybe I should return to Ergersheim in Bavaria. Searching on the Internet, I have found another Ergersheim, this one in Alsace just south of Strasbourg. After the Thirty Year’s War, many Swiss citizens left to go to lands north of Switzerland including Alsace. It would not be unreasonable that a Urban Tanner from Switzerland would emigrate to Ergersheim in Alsace and then go on to Germany.
I cannot find any records for Ergersheim in the LDS lists. If anyone has experience and knowledge about searching in the Church Records there, please let me know. I am aware that the civil records for Alsace often have some information.
This Short Note is for the record so that we are all aware there is a second Ergersheim. And possibly some useful suggestions can be made. I would not have gotten this far without lots of help.
(18 Oct 2007)
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