thank four your letter, dated 22 October 1998.
Years ago I did a lot of genealogie. My mother's line is the Held
line,
located around Biesingen, Öfingen. I systematically put the
Individuals
(and famylies) out of the Church Records from Öfingen.
Hundreds of names are now filed in Salt Lake City at the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). They are available on
CD-ROM
for public access at local Church family Centers. I am sure there will
be one near where you live. ALL of my Data you can research there
easily.
At the moment I do no genealogical research, the data are not mounted
on my computer right now.
Between about 1620 and 1650 there is a great gap (known as the 30 year
war) which cannot be bridged by official records. At the genealocial
Center
you will also find Held datas from me which were dated back to about
1550,
and a single Held goes back about 1220 which I found in Villingen
(I saw this old document with my own eyes). But there is no sincereness
that those Helds are connected with our Held line.
In my manuscript I have your direct liner MICHAEL HELD born 15 sept
1679 in BIESINGEN, mother ANNA. I wonder If I did not typed
it into the computer record. Could you verify the entry of Michael in
the
LDS file again, please ? (Maybe I entered him as individual but not in
a family
structure).
Also I have a remark at HANS and ANNA that they had children for a
period over 37 years, the problem is unsolved, may be this are two
complete
different families or Hans married aganin a second wife called
ANNA.
There I have a death entry on 14. december 1653 of Heinrich, father
HANS HELD. Do you have a Heinrich as brother of Michael, 15. sept. 1679
?
A further death entry on 19. may 1671 shows a HANS HELD in the age
of 91 years, 10 weeks and 2 days.
Death entry on 14 mar 1678 Michael Held, father Hans Held, age 1 year
10 weeks.
Death entry on 22 dec 1686 Hans Held, age of 59 years.
Marriage entry Hans Held, born about 1594, married about 1619 MRS Held,
born about 1598
You should find the datas above (and more) on the LDS-CD-ROM
Thats all I can tell you at this time. Hope you are successful in
identifying
more of your anchestors.
sincerly yours
Karl Ludwig
http://home.t-online.de/home/07712024-0001/whatisit.htm
PS: Sie sprechen ausgezeichnetes Deutsch, pflegen Sie die Sprache in
Ihrer Familie ?