Ralph Baer
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Re: Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?
If you are referring to the fact that there are a few missing years in the records which are in the Generallandesarchiv in Karlsruhe and now on line, it might have been that the Priest who recorded the information forgot to send the Jewish records to Karlruhe for a few years. In all but a few larger places in Baden, Priests also recorded Jewish records from about 1810 to the start of the 1870 because no Jew could write in the common alphabet. Jews at the time usually wrote High German in Hebrew script. I have several family letters written that way. They are not Yiddish but normal German written using Hebrew characters.
It also could be that since it was illegitimate, Dolz (Therese) gave birth elsewhere. She did, however, have another illegitimate child born where she lived and duly recorded. She married several years later and had four more children. She, her husband, and the 6 children are all listed on the ship record with ages. The illegitimate children could not have been from the marriage because the husband who was considerably young than Therese would have been less than 10 years old when they were born.
Edit: One of the letters which I submitted last year for translation since I can only make out some of the words. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=49135
If you are referring to the fact that there are a few missing years in the records which are in the Generallandesarchiv in Karlsruhe and now on line, it might have been that the Priest who recorded the information forgot to send the Jewish records to Karlruhe for a few years. In all but a few larger places in Baden, Priests also recorded Jewish records from about 1810 to the start of the 1870 because no Jew could write in the common alphabet. Jews at the time usually wrote High German in Hebrew script. I have several family letters written that way. They are not Yiddish but normal German written using Hebrew characters.
It also could be that since it was illegitimate, Dolz (Therese) gave birth elsewhere. She did, however, have another illegitimate child born where she lived and duly recorded. She married several years later and had four more children. She, her husband, and the 6 children are all listed on the ship record with ages. The illegitimate children could not have been from the marriage because the husband who was considerably young than Therese would have been less than 10 years old when they were born.
Edit: One of the letters which I submitted last year for translation since I can only make out some of the words. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=49135
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My Stepmum is adamantly opposed to any discussion re family history. It is useless to look back, blahdybladyblah. My Dad loves to tell stories but they are always together and she shuts him down. 
