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From: "Dr. Wolfhart Seelentag" <>
Subject: Re: Geographic Help!!!!!
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:26:01 -0800


> 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?

I'm not sure about names in English - but couldn't STYRIA mean
STEIERMARK ? This indeed is one of the Austrain states.

Best regards - Wolf

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Wolf W. Seelentag, St. Gallen, Switzerland
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