FOKO Databases - Rilling & Grauer Families

Hello list,

My name is Peggy Geissler of Chicago, Illinois and have been searching for family on and off for the past 25-30 years.

The extent of my German language skills are minimal but through the years of looking at some of the same words over and over and the help of a good German dictionary (and once in a while a
translation site) I somehow manage to get by!!

My ultimate brick wall is my great-grandfather Ferdinand Friedrich Geissler but it is of my great-grandmother (his wife from his third marriage) that I write this e-mail about.

In trying to navigate and understand some of the databases on the Genealogy.net site I have come across information on what I believe to be my Rilling and Grauer ancestors.

My great-grandmother is Christina Rilling, born 26 June 1860, daughter of Anna Maria Grauer and Jacob Rilling of Gomaringen, Germany.

My question is how do I contact the researcher/source listed in the databases?

I know very little of Christina. I have found information on the LDS website which indicates she
came from a relatively large family, but appears to possibly be the only member of her family to have left Germany.

I have a certificate dated 1881 written in German which appears to have birth and baptisimal information on it (possibly for travel purposes), I have located the U.S. Passenger List which states she arrived in New York in 1881, and also a letter from what I believe to be a sister, niece and possibly grand-niece from the French Zone of Germany right around the end of World War II.

Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated as to how I can contact the researchers so that I may learn more about Christina and share the info and pictures i have of her.

Thanks in advance for your time and advice.

                                                                     Peggy Geissler

Hello Peggy,

in 2002 there have been the names Grauer (in Mahringen between Gomaringen
and Reutlingen) and Rilling (in Gomaringen) in the BA-Wue-List - but this
list is in German only.

May be someone is able to help at the moment - otherwise you have to wait
until I get time to look what I can do.

In Foko you have to make a sign in the right line - then you have to go down
the page - click on [INFO anfordern] come to a second page which tells you
the rules, scroll down and enter your email-adress - and then may be you
get a German adress - or if lucky you get a Mail-Adress as well.

Greetings from Munich
Christine

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von:
genealogy.net-users-en-bounces+c.mathis-huber=nexgo.de@genealogy.net
[mailto:genealogy.net-users-en-bounces+c.mathis-huber=nexgo.de@genealogy
.net]Im Auftrag von Ernest Geissler