Genealogy Chat

just thought I would add I have recently had contact from some relatives who actually have our family bible, after 10-15 years of my own research its finally appeared. To say I was astounded and delighted is an understatement.

There are records written in it, one of which relates to a marriage which I've been looking for without joy for ten years.

Hang in there, you could be incredibly lucky one day!

JOHANNES SCHWANZER Pedigree
Male
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Event(s):
Birth: 31 OCT 1774 Treskowitz, Maehren Kroenlande, Austria
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Parents:
Father: JOSEF SCHWANZER Family
Mother: MARIA MAGDALENA WAGNER

JOHN SCHWANZER Pedigree
Male Family

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Marriages:
Spouse: FRANCES CINGEL Family
Marriage: 09 JUN 1878 Saint Peter-Great Windmill St, Westminster, London, England
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Messages:
Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the marriage date.

MARIA SCHWANZER Pedigree
Female Family
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Parents:
Father: MARTIN SCHWANZER Family
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Marriages:
Spouse: GABRIEL WAGNER Family
Marriage: 02 JAN 1718 Treskowitz, Maehren Kroenlande, Austria

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Maria Schwanzer Pedigree
Female
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Event(s):
Birth: About 1859 Of Wien, , Wien, Austria

one from way back

MATHIAS SCHWANZER Pedigree
Male
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Event(s):
Birth: 22 JUN 1761 Treskowitz, Maehren Kroenlande, Austria
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Parents:
Father: JOSEF SCHWANZER Family
Mother: MARIA MAGDALENA WAGNER

thankyou tootyfruity i shall give it a try
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I found the above on Ancestry but think

www.familysearch.org.uk

is your best bet for Austrian records. Thy also have a pilot site but am unsure of its address.

hello, yes hes the brother of my 3xgt grandfather, who was also born in Vienna, do you no if there are any sites on Austraian genealogy?
thankyou for the message

Hi Helen

Is this your family

Name: Mathias Schwanzer
Age: 35
Estimated birth year: abt 1856
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Annie
Gender: Male
Where born: Vienna, Australia
Civil parish: Tottenham
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Edmonton
Sub-registration district: Tottenham
ED, institution, or vessel: 12
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Mathias Schwanzer 35
Annie Schwanzer 30

wow thankyou everyone for yr comments, what interesting stories, i would love more than anything to find the schwanzer/swanser family bible, i think it would be of some use for researching my tree further, as my family from my fathers side is from Austria.
Thankyou again everyone

My aunty cleared out my grandparents house and actually THREW AWAY the enlarged photograph (about 90x60cm) of the double wedding of my grandparents and nan's sister with some of the family who later emigrated to Canada!!!
I'm still sad about it and granddad died in 1969
Jill

If the elderly parent lived with one of their children, it would probably have gone to that child - and so on.

Mine was found by the couple who bought my mum's house after she died - they ripped the fireplace out and my dad had used it to support the old back boiler!!! Fortunately it was all intact.

There is no simple answer to that question. Firstly do you know for sure that there was one? Although family bibles were quite common particularly in the 19th century not every family will have had one as not everyone could read.

If your family had one it would normally passed down to one of the children of the family but as far as I know there was no specific or common rule which dictated who it would be passed to.

In my own case I was extremely lucky to find a very distant cousin who had the bible started by my Great Great Grandmother. The chap who had it was, like myself, a fourth generation descendant. The irony was that when I obtained a copy of my 2x Gt Grandmothers will I discovered that she had actually willed the bible to my Great grandfather not his. Obviously my Gt Grandfather never received the bible probably because he was living a long distance away from her when she died so it was obviously retained by his sibling with whom their mother was living at the time of her death.

Good luck in tracing yours. They can be a treasure trove of family history.

I would like to know how i can find our family bible does anyone know how i go about tracing it?