Friday, September 4, 2009

Corrections of Public Records

During my research at St. Gallen Staatsarchiv we learned the true name of the town of record for birth records of the 13 Staheli children is Gubsenmoos.  When the name was transcribed from the Ellis Island ship manifest it was incorrectly named Dyplanmous.  This is understandable as the original script is very difficult to read.  Swiss Roots corrected the Ellis Island manifest to read Diepoldsau.  This is also incorrect.  I have asked for a review of records at both Ellis Island and Swiss Roots to correctly note the town as Gubsenmoos.  These reviews will be done and a determination made either to correct or not in the near future.

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