Colloquial meaning of phrases and Search capabilities
In several parish christenings the phrase "Casp. Henr. Tÿrren und s. fr. elicher sohn sind freÿ." -- it's the "sind frey". So I can translate it as they are free, but to what does this refer?
My other question - Is there a way to search all of the discussions/questions in this forum? I think that would be super helpful!
Thanks so much!
Jenny
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@Jenealogy The "sind freÿ" does indeed mean "are free". It refers to their status during the feudal times when many people were owned by lords. I have much to learn about the feudal system but as I understand it some people were owned by lords, some were free but living on lands and in houses that were owned by lords with the lords approval (and paying rent I assume) and some actually owned their own house/property. Lords often owned whole villages. But even for free people, I don't think it was easy to move. Almost all land/property was owned by lords so they would have to get permission of the lord of the new location to reside there. In this case, Caspar and his wife were not owned by a lord.
There is a search function on here that will pop up at the top of the page when you click on the word "Home" at the top left of this page. It seems to search all the Groups rather than just the German Group, and doesn't seem to always pick up what you're looking for. But sometimes it helps find an old thread. I wish it worked better as there are so many old discussions that have valuable information in them.
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"There is a search function on here that will pop up at the top of the page when you click on the word "Home" at the top left of this page. It seems to search all the Groups rather than just the German Group, and doesn't seem to always pick up what you're looking for. But sometimes it helps find an old thread. I wish it worked better as there are so many old discussions that have valuable information in them."
That is worded extremely politely. I had my experiences posted quite some time ago:
1) One point has already been mentioned by @JohnsonGreg: you cannot search any given group - just all groups - and to make things worse: the list of hits doesn't even mention the group of that specific hit.
2) You never get a complete list of "potential hits", just an arbitrary selection. And "arbitrary" means exactly that: 5 searches and 5 different results.
3) The result depends on the country where you live - to be more exact: the language setting (which is done automatically, but you can change it manually). If you search "in German" you get different results as compared to "in English". BTW - English seems to be better, German (which is my default language setting) is pretty useless.
4) As mentioned, you only get an arbitrary selection from the potential hits, i.e. you never get all of them. An alternative is your "search engine of choice": just add "site:https://community.familysearch.org" (without quotation) to your search terms - will usually not be complete either, but give you more hits - and likely different hits … so if you combine both search strategies you have a better chance to find what you are looking for.
If you want to read more about my tests (incl. screenshots): https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/127977/full-text-search-for-german-speaking-users
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Thank you both! There is a lot of information in Community that could be searched for and found with a decent "Search" function. I appreciate the point about different results with different languages . . .
Let's hope they take your suggestion to heart!
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