Another Resource

I was corresponding with Regina, my German contact--cf. my last post-- to see if she knew of any 18th or 19th century map resources that might show the villages and with the house numbers. Because villages were very small, they simply assigned a number to each house. Church records often included the address in baptism, marriage and death records. This is helpful when trying to connect loose ends with known family members and I think having a map of the proximity of the various households would be interesting.

She gave several suggestions and then told me of a book that might include a map. The name of the book is _650 Jahre, Nieder- und Oberthalhausen_. This was a nice surprise! As you may remember, I have a book about Tann with a similar title and have been wondering if a book had been written about any of the other villages in the Rohrbach valley. I had asked my cousin, Jürgen, about it a month or so ago but he had been unable to find out anything. The book about Niederthalhausen could provide more discoveries about the Eichenauers who resided there from about 1794 until today. 

So, after learning that there was such a book, I did a google search and discovered a copy for sale at Abebooks.com. I have ordered the book and now anxiously await its arrival.

Of course it is more than likely that the map that I was originally asking about is not in the book. There certainly isn't in the Tann version.

So I will try to contact some of the people she suggested to me and see if that bears any fruit.

In the meantime, I continue to index Niederthalhausen Churchbook records for more Eichenauer relatives. I am currently working on the baptismal records in the late 1700s. I am nearly always finding at least one new relative on every page. I will continue this process until 9/21 when my access to Archion.de runs out, then decide whether to renew right away or to begin to enter the results obtained thus far into my Ancestry.com tree. So much to do, and so little time!⌚️