For those who missed the earlier message about the "blue book". It is not
the Paulus and Gertrude Kusters book.
Patricia
Brenda,
I would like to purchase one of the blue books
about the Kaldenkirken church and area.Where do I get this book and how
much is it? My wife is from the Reiner/Johannes/Arnold/Paulus line. I
have been doing research on her line. Thanks for any help.
Andy & Janice Schwier
>From: Custerbren(a)aol.com
>Reply-To: CASTOR-L(a)rootsweb.com
>To: CASTOR-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: Re: [Castor] New slightly different name origin possibility
>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:43:14 EST
>
>You might consider purchasing one of the blue books for her, or one for
>yourself that she could look through. When we visited Germany several
>years back,
>it was like one of the guide books for us! We visited Krefeld (a GREAT museum
>there) & climbed to the top of a castle, then went on to Kaldenkirchen. It
>happened to be Good Friday & we found the Catholic church (page 45), asked
>directions outside it of two young men, one of whom turned out to be the
>son of the
>pastor of the church where our ancestors attended!!!! The congregation was
>coming out of service so we got to enter through the door (page 53), sit
>in the
>pulpit (page 55) & learn of the location of the tombstones (page 69). We
>spent
>the rest of the day with the pastor at the church then at his home. He, too,
>was interested in the history of the area.
>
>Krefeld is a clean city and everyone there was super nice to us.
>
>Brenda Custer Randall
>(Reiner/Johannes/Arnold/Paulus/Arnold/Conrad/Paul/GeorgeWashingtonC.Sr/Edward/EdwardRichard/Riley/OwenKenneth
>to me!)