(This file as listed below is
located on the Marriage CD of Glogowatz Church records from 1836-1897)
Fellow Glogowatz Researchers,
This 3-CD collection set of
Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths consists of key historical data on our ancestors
who were born, married and in many cases died in the
The information found in this
CD Set is very precious and will reveal the social and family ties that bind us
together as relatives and friends in our common quest for the knowledge of our
history.
I am very proud to be part of
this effort and I know that many of you who responded with contributions must
also be proud to be part of the preservation of this data.
The real beauty of having
this data on CD is that you have direct access to the images. For anyone who has ever rolled through a
microfilm reel, this is heaven. The
individual digital image also makes it easy to create separate groups of data
that is mixed on a film and present it as one collection. Even though there are death records on 3
rolls of film. They are all collected
together and are on one CD. I have
created an index for each CD with the starting year and month followed by the
roll and image numbers, but don’t feel you have to keep them on the CDs. If you want faster access then you need to
copy the images to your hard disk in the following manner.
·
First you need to make
sure you have about 2 gigabytes of free space on your hard disk, that 2,000
megabytes and if you have a fairly new computer you probably have a large hard
drive.
·
Second create a folder
to hold the indexes (BaptismIndex.htm, MarriageIndex.htm and DeathIndex.htm).
Inside this folder with the three index files create a new sub-folder called
‘Images’.
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From each CD copy the
contents from the ‘Image’ folder on the CD to the folder called ‘Images’ on
your hard drive. It’s important that
all of the images are in the correct place or the indexes will not work. For Example: on my C: drive I create a folder called ‘Glogowatz’ so under ‘C:\Glogowatz’
I will have a copy the 3 indexes, and a subfolder called ‘Images’ or
‘C:\Glogowatz\Images’.
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Make sure you copy all
the files ending in ‘tif’ into the ‘Images’ folder (directory). Double click on the name of one of your
indexes to start it up. Click on a link
or two to see that you have access to the images.
·
If you copy all the
images you will have a folder with at least 1,849 images in it. You will definitely notice the speed
difference, and then you can put the CD’s away for safe keeping.
If you look at the naming
convention I used for the images (yes I renamed every single one of them to
conform to the standard) you will see the files names look like this:
‘P2R1Image0001.tif’. The ‘P2’ stands for Part two as this microfilm set is the second
one from Glogowatz. The first set
begins in 1770 and runs through 1835.
Anyone who has the first set of microfilm please contact me on how we
can get that one converted as well. When we do the first set we will give it
names that start with ‘P1’.
The ‘R1’ or ‘R2’, etc
represent the roll the image was found on and this if followed by the word
‘Image’ and a 4-digit sequence number with leading zeros so they line up
correctly when listed.
I spend a few days extracting
and preparing the year and month HTML indexes to make it more useful and easy
to use. If you know the images that
interest you it is possible for you to create your own indexes to images if you
know how to create HTML documents.
Whenever you are viewing an image in a web browser, you can look at the
address bar to see the file name and make a note of it. Don’t trust the counter on the image because
you need to know the roll number it comes from. There are 4 images in most cases with the same number on the
image counter.
I want to caution those who
may be new to researching old records.
It is not an easy task, and many times you really cannot believe what
you see. Look at the alphabet letter guide and you will
see a common font used in some older German publications. Notice the letters ‘I’ and ‘J”, they look
identical! The ‘P’ looks like a ‘B’,
the ‘A’ looks like a ‘U’ and the lower case ‘x’ looks like an ‘r’.
When a lower case ‘s’ appears
in written text it is completely different depending on the other letters it
appears with, so sometimes it looks like a ‘f’ and sometimes, is looks like
‘s’. When you go from print to cursive
writing, the problems get even worse.
As you begin to view these
documents you will notice changes in the handwriting, misspellings, and
abbreviations that don't make sense.
You will also see the same names written differently using Hungarian,
German, and Latin spellings depending on when and who penned them.
Be patient, look at other names
that you can recognize and see how letters or letter combinations are
formed. This will provide you with
clues as to how a particular individual recorded the information.
I plan to post a special web
page on the Glogowatz
website later this month to provide statistical analysis of this data. I will also include any comments or notes
that may help further your own research.
I will email everyone when that webpage becomes active.
Software Utilities
There are some additional
software items on this CD under the Utilities folder.
·
Belarc Advisor is a free software program that provides a summary
report of everything on your PC. You
can visit their website at www.Belarc.com for more details. I included this for those people who needed a way to find out
more information about their computer in case these CDs were not working right.
·
WinZip 8.1 is the latest version of the popular ZIP
utility. Most people should already
have this on their PC systems. If you
have a MAC you need a different version.
·
The TIFF Viewers are
included for those who have not installed a viewer and need a free one for
viewing the images on these CDs. Open
the TIFF Viewers folder and you will find there are versions for Netscape and
Internet Explorer. Click here to read more on the
Alternatiff Viewer, which is a plug-in for your web browser.
…And one more thing, for
those who are wondering what my little surprise is well…I have included the
1935 issue of the Deutsch-UngarischerFamilien Kalender on this CD. The Marriage images did not take up that
much room and I wanted to fill the CD with other useful research material.
So now you can see the photos, read the stories, enjoy
the humor and marvel at the advertisements, but what is more remarkable are the
subscriber lists. David Dreyer has
extracted many of these names and some of you may have seen his Kalender lists
on the WorldWideWeb.
Now see the complete entries.
The names of both spouses, including maiden names,
village or country of origin, street address, city and state are all here
listed alphabetically by location in the
Photos…
On pages 43 and 51 you will find some photos of
Glogowatz, page 69 shows a photo of over 100 parishioners from St Fidelis in
College Point, NY., on page 81 there is a wedding photo from Glogowatz,
Names…
See page 120 for over 90 names from
On page 126 you can find 6 Dumelle’s, on page 128
there are 8 Grubers, page 139 there is a Vormittag, page 140 a Wischler, and if
you’re interested in embroidery patterns (Stickmuster) see the Ad from my
grandmother, Eva Marx, on page 192.
Family Ties…
I recently discovered my family’s connection to this
publication on a visit to my Aunt Kate (born Marx) in
Josef Marx married my grandmother Eva Schmidt (born
Klein of Glogowatz-Blumental). My
grandparents, Adam and Eva (yes I go back that far) were divorced, but Adam
still lived with Eva’s mother until his death in 1924.
Sadly on
My Aunt Kate has allowed me to borrow the five
original publications she had. I
selected the 1935 issue to be on this CD because it includes a photo of her
wedding on page 73. Katharina Susanna
Marx is in the center and her husband Nickolaus Muschal is third from the
right. My father John F. Schmidt is in
the upper right corner of the photo.
I feel honored to help bring the spotlight back to
their hard work and efforts to list all of those fellow countrymen and women who
subscribed to these publications.
Dedication
With a new spirit of discovery I am dedicating this
and future efforts to locating and preserving all of the works of Josef and Eva
Marx so their publications will be available to future researchers, historians,
and genealogists.
Thanks…
My thanks to those who have been patiently waiting and
have made this endeavor a success, especially David Dreyer and Erwin Kilzheimer
and…
I would like to thank my true love Anastacia (yes, she
is my wife) who has been by my side throughout--pulling me away for another
remodeling project. We will celebrate
out 30th wedding anniversary
To our eldest daughter Anna Lisa (Susie-Q) who will
soon be married in June 2002 to Jason Moneymaker (It’s a good name to live up
to.)
To our 2nd daughter Andrea (Twinkie) who is
now in the US Air Force, and besides helping to win a war she has found time to
turn us into grandparents (In military fashion her baby girl is due at the end
of a long March 2002)
To our 3rd daughter, Angela (Pumpkin), who
is attending college and working to become an independent woman.
To our youngest daughter Donna (Cupcake), who’s effort
to quality control check every single link and image on this CD Set has been
filled with joy and hope and love.
(Yeah right!) Well at least now
she knows how to point and click with the mouse!
And finally to our little dog Gizmo who tested the
packaging material and licked all the stamps for mailing.
Enjoy…
February 2002