Men of Bern The 1798 Canton Bern Swiss Census auteur : Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, CG isbn : 08972 53760 price : 199.50 $ 3 volumes, 1704 pages, 60137 entrées, 1999 http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/menobern.htm http://www.pictonpress.com/ http://www.pictonpress.com/store/show/802 list of surnames : http://www.pictonpress.com/downloads/1780a.htm Men of Bern : the 1798 Bürgerverzeichnisse of Canton Bern, Switzerland by Lewis Bunker Rohrbach 1st printing Rockport, Me. : Picton Press, 1999 Collation 3 Bd. (XLII, 1703 S.) ; 24 cm ISBN/Prix 0897253760 (geb.) : USD 73.95 ouvrage disponible dans le catalogue Helveticat de la bibliothèque nationale suisse When the French Revolution and Napoleon reached Switzerland in 1798, all men in every canton in Switzerland aged 20 through 70 were required to sign an Oath of Allegiance to the new Constitution. The resulting lists of all Swiss men include their age, occupation, place of hereditary Heimat, and place of physical residence, as well in many cases. As such the Bürgerverzeichnisse supplies a complete census of adult males two generations before the first census of 1855 (which, even then, does not name individuals)! By arrangement with Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern, Picton Press transcribed and translated all 17 volumes, containing data on all 60,000 Bernese men alive in 1798. Subsequent volumes will cover the balance of the Swiss cantons, to the extent their 1798 lists still survive. None of them has been filmed or published before! As with all lists compiled by many different officials, the exact data varies from heimat to heimat. In many Bernese heimats, these 1798 lists include additional information such as: exact date of birth or baptism; relationship to other men of the same Geschlect (surname clan); comments such as "sick" or "left the area for France three years ago", etc. All in all these are wonderful, fascinating, and important lists. They serve as a substitute for (non existenant) censuses, as well as a subperb research tool. L'extrait ci-dessous comprend tous les patronymes de 1798 commençant par "Gr" : Graa Graaf Graf Gräf Graff Graben Graber Gräber Grädel Graden Grafenried Graffenried Grägi Grakiseth Gramm Gränicher Graser Gratz Grau Graüb Gräüb Graulo Grauw Graüw Graviler Graviset Greber Grell Grenecher Greping Greter Grettenÿ Greub Greüb Greüter Greütter Greüßi Greÿers Greÿerz Gribÿ Grieb Grieben Griebi Grim Grimm Grob Grod Groffenried Grogg Gros Groß Großclaus Großklaus Großen Großenbach Grosenbacher Großenbacher Großglaus Großglauser Großglaußer Großiger Großklaus Großmann Großniklaus Gruber Grundbacher Grunder Gründer Grundisch Grundma Grundmann Gruneisen Grüneisen Grünenwald Gruner Grüneÿsen Grünig Grüningen Grünkorn Grünÿs Grünÿsen Grüsi Grußi Grüter Grütter Grÿph pour voir tous les noms, c'est ici : http://www.ordiecole.com/gen/greub/men_of_bern.mht _____________________________________________________ Le site internet de Lewis Bunker Rohrbach est ici : http://www.swissgenealogy.com/ http://www.ordiecole.com/gen/greub/men_of_bern.mdi liste de tous les patronymes ici : http://www.ordiecole.com/gen/greub/men_of_bern.html index sur cdrom ici : http://www.ordiecole.com/gen/greub/men_of_bern2.txt _____________________________________________________ http://www.ordiecole.com/gen/greub/men_of_bern.txt