Could anyone help me identify the city in this record? Looking at Anna Maria Frey, born in the Canto
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The column heading is Birthplace of Foreigners (Geburtsort der Fremden). This is a long shot, but the place looks like Zeme and with other information that you have recently posted about your family that moved around, even into Italy, perhaps this is Zeme, Lombardy, Italy?? However, the next column does say Lutzern....
The entries for her children are:
Elisabet, age 16, born Kriegsstetten, Solothurn.
Mariana, age 13 born in Biberest, Solothurn
Kattey[sp], age 8 born in ? Wallis (Valais)
They are moving around!
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Hi Danette,
Thanks for the help in decyphering the records. They did move a lot and I think that is because of the heimatlos condition. The last town where my ancestor Kartharina was born is Bramois in Wallis. Sadly I cannot find any online records of that town and maybe there weren't any also due to them being denied citizenship. As for Zeme, that is an interesting possibility. Since I learned recently in this board (I love it here! So much help from all of you, thanks!) that heimatlos couples sometimes crossed the Italian border to marry, maybe that's what happened there and that may be a breadcrumb for me to follow. The quest continues!
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