Von: carlah@earthlink.net (Carla)
  Datum: 16.08.98, 11:32:27
Betreff: Re: Wuerttemberg versus Prussia?

Dear Anne and Baden- Wuerttemberg List Friends,

I appreciate Anne's offered explanation, but the area to which I was referring in
my original post was *Wuerttemberg*---which was NEVER part of Prussia, just as
Baden was *not.*  Your reference to the *Rheinland* being Prussian is correct,
however---at one time that specific area was under Prussian control.

I have also used dozens of LDS microfilms of Baden localities extensively for many
years, and have never seen a film from Baden which "listed the town as Prussia"
(or even the region as Prussia, if that's what you actually meant.)  If the LDS
Library did this, they would be listing it that way *in error* (which they usually
take great pains to avoid).  Perhaps you have seen this on films for the
*Rheinland*, which would make perfect sense.

If you were told at your local LDS Family History Center branch that "Prussia . .
.sent armies into Baden" and that Prussia was "in control for a few years before
or after Louis XIV invaded the area," the staff is suffering from a degree of
confusion.  NAPOLEON (not Louis XIV, and not Prussia) briefly controlled various
parts of the area (particularly west of the Rhein), but although this brought
about the earlier (circa 1792) institution of *civil registration* in such places
as Baden, I must re-emphasize that neither Baden nor Wuerttemberg were *ever* part
of *Prussia.*  My original post referred only to Wuerttemberg (and secondarily to
Baden).

If you are referring to the *Rheinland* being under Prussian rule, that's another
story.

Respectfully yours,
Carla HELLER
Los Angeles
============================
Anne W. McAllister wrote:

> I think the error about Prussia and Baden and the Rhineland comes from the LDS
> microfilm of these regions.  The LDS records will list a town or city that they
> filmed in an archive in Baden or the Rhineland, but they will list the town as
> in Prussia.
>
> I asked about this once and was told that Prussia, or armies from the area, sent
> armies into Baden and were in controll for a few years before or after Louis XIV
> invaded the area.  For a few years, the area may have been under the rule of the
> Prussian army.
>
> I believe if you check the dates, this will work out.  I just ignore it.  Anne