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From: Jim Eggert x6127 <>
Subject: Re: Geographic Help!!!!!
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 02:49:32 GMT
In-Reply-To: leist41949@aol.com's message of 1 Mar 1997 07:04:37 GMT


In article <> (Leist41949) writes:
> I have found a road block to my further family research because of a lack
> of knowledge of the geography of the German and Austrian areas in the
> ealry to mid 1800's. A copy of the 1870 census says my G-G-Grandfather was
> born in STYRIA. As I understand it there was or is a state or province in
> Austria by that name. Was this common or maybe a mis-statement of Austria?

Styria seems to be fairly specific information. Have you looked at
other entries by the same census taker? Perhaps you should read the
book

TITLE: Auswanderungen aus Osterreich : von der Mitte 19. Jahrhundert
bis zur Gegenwart/ hrsg. v. Traude Horvath, Gerda Neyer.
PUB. INFO: Wien : Bohlau, 1996.
DESCRIPTION: 736 p.
SERIES: Grenzenloses Osterreich
ISBN: 3205985656

> My G-G-Grandmother is also a problem because the same census list her
> birthplace as Baden. She was born in 1834 but I don't know which Baden.
> There is a small town south of Vienna named Baden. Was it there in the
> 1830's?

Baden here certainly means the Grossherzogtum (Grand Duchy of) Baden.
It thus represents a state, not a town.
--
=Jim Eggert

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