My mother was born to a family of Moosmayers in Schneegattern Austria. I want more information on h
i have seen a picture of my dad holding her. was told she was born in Toul France recently but unsure. Help
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@susannar susannar
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Susannar
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Not that I can be of much help ...
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But ...
That said ...
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These may not help; because, I feel that they may be not so recent ...
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Firstly ...
Here is a link to a page on genealogy in Austria in the 'FamilySearch' "Wiki":
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Austria Genealogy
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Austria_Genealogy
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Secondly ... just in case ...
I am "Tagging" this general 'Question' of yours to the 'Group' being "Austro-Hungarian Empire" in this Forum in the hope that, the members of that group may be able to answer/assist you.
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All the best.
Good Luck.
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Brett
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ps: You never know ... nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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Thelma was born too recently for her baptismal record to be available publicly; in Austria, birth and baptism records are protected for 100 years, marriage records for 75 years, and death records for 30 years (see linked page for additional information).
The marriage records and the burial records available for Friedburg-Lengau are not available on Matricula-Online after 1940, so your parents' 1953 marriage record (I found the date in the FamilySearch tree) and your sister Thelma's burial record in the 1950s is not listed on the website. According to Matricula-Online, entries after 1939 are maintained by the civil registry offices, so you could write to the civil registry office (Standesamt) and ask for copies of Thelma's burial record and your parents' marriage record. You can find contact information for the office at http://www.gemeindelengau.at/Standesamt_3 (the email address is hoepflinger.martina@lengau.ooe.gv.at).
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Genteam.at is a free gazatteer for Austria. This is what it shows for Schneegattern:
Detail View: Gazetteer of Austrian, Czech, Slovak and Slovenian Republic
No.51088
Place Name:Schneegattern
District:Crown Land:Oberösterreich
Begin of Vital StatisticsRespective Archives
Competent Parish - Roman Catholic:Friedburg1614/-/-Diözese Linz
When you click the blue link it will lead you to Matricula, which is also free. Click the English option on the top left. I put the town in the search engine without success. I put Linz in the search engine and came up with some results. I am short on time this morning or I would have looked at the results better. See if anything fits for Schneegattern. It could be that they have not added it yet.
Betseylee Browning
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The Matricula-Online page for the Freidburg-Lengau parish (https://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/oberoesterreich/friedburg-lengau/) is incomplete, so none of the filiates show up in a place search, but Schneegattern definitely occurs as the place (Ortschaft) in the actual records.
The Third Military Survey map on Mapire has a parenthetical Weiszenbach for Schneegattern:
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"Moosmayer" definitely occurs in the Friedburg-Lengau parish registers, but there's no sign of "Wetherington" or anything even remotely like it. Do you know where and when your parents married? Their marriage register entry may or may not be public information, depending on when the marriage was. Your sister's birth record is almost certainly still private (regardless of where exactly she was born), and will be for several more decades, but her death may be public.
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The 5 April 1920 marriage record for your maternal grandparents is far enough back to be available on the website (see linked). The record states that Katharina born Lengauer was a legitimate daughter of Josef Lengauer (Dampfsäge arbeiter [steam sawmill worker] in Schneegattern number 6) and Katharina born Huber, and the mother was still living at the time of the marriage. The bride was born on 17 Jan 1885 in Schneegattern and was the widow of Nikolaus Meilinger.
The only person I found born on 17 Jan 1885 in Schneegattern (linked) was a Katharina, daughter of Katharina Huber and Joseph Fuchs, making me wonder if this was (A) the right person and there had been a name-change from Fuchs to Moosmayer, or if (B) the date or place listed for Katharina's birth in her marriage record might be incorrect.
I found her previous marriage to Nikoalus Meilinger listed as being on 13 Jan 1908 (linked). In that record, it states she is listed as born in Weissenbach, but that is a small place right next to Schneegattern and part of the same parish (see linked map). So it does look as though the family had a name-change sometime between Katharina's 1885 birth and her 1908 marriage, from Fuchs to Lengauer.
I thought the death record of her father, Joseph Fuchs/Lengauer, might clear it up if it listed both surnames. On the Friedburg-Lengau parish page on Matricula-Online (linked), you can filter out by record type and move the cursors to filter out by year range as well, to for example get the burial index (linked), which is quite helpful and is accessible. It states that a Joseph Lengauer died in 1906 and is listed on page 135. Returning to the Friedburg-Lengau page and looking for the burial book that includes the year 1906, you can find the 6 Feb 1906 death of Joseph Lengauer (linked); his record states that he was a Dampfsäge arbeiter [steam sawmill worker] in Wissenbach number 6, married with Katharina Lengauer born Huber on 19 Nov 1883, born in Göpfritzschlag, county Waidhofer an der Th[aya], Niederösterreich, on 20 Dec 1855. It doesn't mention the surname Fuchs, so the question still stands of whether the 1885 record found for a Katharina is the right one.
Returning to genteam.at, logging in, clicking on Gazetteer, selecting Niederösterreich from the drop-down list, and typing in part of the placename (such as Göpf), and then clicking on the document icon to the left of the right place, shows that the parish for Göpfritzschlag is Münchreith an der Thaya and that the records are found in the archives of St. Pölten. Clicking on the linked archival location takes you back to Matricula-Online, where those records can be found; click on the "Weiter zu Matricula" button in the middle of the page, and then click on the book icon on the left. then click on "Search for Places" at the top of the page, type in "Münchreith an der Thaya," and hit "Search." Click on the search result to take you to the Münchreith an der Thaya parish page. Joseph Lengauer's 20 Dec 1855 birth record (linked) is found in the 1841-1867 Taufbuch.
Following these explanations of how to use the GenTeam gazetteer (if you don't have access to the gazetteer, create a log-in; it usually takes a few hours for it to go through, so in the meantime you can just click on the "Search for Places" heading on Matricula-Online and put in the placename to get the parish from there) and how to navigate the Catholic church records on Matricula-Online should make it possible to continue researching your family, and contacting the civil registry office will hopefully get you copies of the more recent records that are not available online.
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My mom said when she was alive that they were married but the us military didn't approve for their marriage until August 20, 1953 --the date they got married in Europe
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thank you very much
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