Elizabeth’s Journal

Update (v2) to the Web Site

I’ve been messing around with various options in the Second Site program that I use to create the KarlFamilyHistory web site, and this evening I’ve finally gotten a new site up there. Feel free to comment on the changes—next time I’ll probably try something else again. If you can, please send comments via the e-mail listed on the site so that they all go in one place, which makes it easier for me to review them and keep track of what I need to do for the next update. And as always, if you notice errors, please bring them to my attention so that I can fix them. There are too many people for me to proofread every single one, so the more eyes looking at it the better!

This version does include some of the birth/baptism/marriage/burial information that Daddy has been raking in over the last few weeks. There are links to the original entries in the Catholic Church books as well as transcriptions (the microfilms are hard to read) and translations (they’re in Latin). On the main page I included an “Update” section, which tells you a little bit about what’s new and also points out the “Recent Changes” list of people (it lists only the people who’ve had any changes made—it doesn’t tell you what the changes are).

Daddy wrote the following to our cousin in Florida, who’s a priest and also interested in researching our genealogy (his mother is a Karl): “Note that the earliest entry I have found for any Karl in the Wuerzweiler area (actually in the Rockenhausen church register) is the 1799 wedding of Jacob Karl, Johann’s father, to Katherin Stollhofer. In this entry, it is stated that Jacob came from Boerrstadt, which . . . is located some 12-15 km southeast of Wuerzweiler. Boerrstadt is apparently outside the area served by the Rockenhausen parish church. I have ordered a microfilm which contains data from the Boerrstadt area.” So who knows—if we’re lucky, perhaps there will be more Karl information yet to come in the weeks ahead.