My constant battle to clean out my overfull inbox yielded fun stuff yesterday. I was looking at messages that were sent to me by family search.....hints about members of my family tree. Lo and behold one of the messages contained links to original documents found in Obersteinbach Bas Rine France. These documents contain dates of marriage for Barbe Schweickart and Georges Hornberger as well as death information for Georges and name parents for both. I have added the information to my private tree on my computer as well as my public trees on Ancestry and MyHeritage. I am putting the links below so that you can look at them as well. Please get in touch with me if you know more about any of these people.
On the map below you will see Obersteinbach truly on the border of France and Germany. No wonder one has to look at the history and geography books to know which country claimed them in any given year. It is just north of Strasbourg.
Marriage of Barbe Schweickart and Georges Hornberger:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FYN-9BWV?treeref=G3Q7-QKM&cid=rom-email
"France, Bas-Rhin, Parish and Civil Registration, 1525-1912", , FamilySearch(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FYN-9BW8 : Tue Mar 05 03:30:34 UTC 2024), Entry for Georges Hornberger and Fréderic Hornberger, 2 Feb 1863.
This document names parents for Georges as Frederic Hornberger and Anne Marie Wenberger. And parents for Barbe as Dorothée Koelhoeffer and Frederic Schweickart
Death of Georges Hornberger:
"Obersteinbach, Bas-Rhin, France records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CST3-94L3?view=index : Dec 1, 2024), image 243 of 473; . 008322038
This document gives death date as 21 Jul 1870. Georges was only 43
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