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How annoying, you really need that!
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03-10-23, 23:09
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So, I now have the birth certificate -- it says his mother was born in Pfaffikon, Switzerland and his father in Mona Vale NSW. Well, that's not right - father was born in Schmerikon, St Gallen, Switzerland - I don't know where the error occurred, or if its worth getting it fixed.
Anyhow, it was no help in finding mothers parents. Still waiting for the NAA document, though I am really doubtful there will be any clues to her parents.
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04-10-23, 18:41
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One of the Dolos I found in the Swiss phone book, as mentioned upthread, is in Uster, only 7 km from Pfäffikon...
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04-10-23, 21:30
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Thanks Mary, I cannot find very much about them at all.
I tried working on trees for some DNA matches, particularly the largest ones with trees. I took his largest maternal match and their shared matches and made a list of the surnames (that are Swiss/Germanic/Italian?) in the 6 biggest trees - none of them have any in common. Now I am trying to build trees for them. I think I will feel like a forensic genealogist if I can work anything out!
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04-10-23, 22:15
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You could try asking in the Swiss section of the Filiae forums if anyone has access to birth or baptism records for Pfäffikon:
https://www.filae.com/v4/forums/rech...uisse-f18.html It might even be worth contacting the guy in Uster; he has an Italian forename, and could well be related to your lot. Even if he isn't closely related, or doesn't know, it might be useful to ask whereabouts in Italy his ancestors came from.
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05-10-23, 09:45
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Thanks Mary for the suggestions.
I have now received the file on Carmen (mother of my friend) and her migration journey to become a permanent resident and then Australian citizen. Being so recent (1985), I did wonder if they would release it, due to our privacy restrictions, so I am a bit surprised. Its 232 pages, some of them duplicates of forms, for varying purposes. I know a lot more about Mum and her husband, who came to Australia separately (having known each other in Switzerland) and they married on the Gold Coast. Both their dates and places of birth, as well as those of her parents are given. One form lists her employment and residential addresses in Switzerland - in 1983 apparently she lived in Uster, so maybe the man in phone book there, is not so far off the track! However, there are no records for any of them in familysearch. At this point I am thinking they did not get baptised or married in the Catholic and Reformed Church or the Pfaffikon records are not included. Off to read through some more of the 232 pages!
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05-10-23, 09:59
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FamilySearch's catalogue shows they have Pfaffikon church records for 1597-1875:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/...tory%20Library
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05-10-23, 16:38
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Where were her parents born?
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05-10-23, 21:07
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I deduce from her addresses that her parents still lived in Wiesslingen, Zurich when she came to Australia. We think her mother died in 2009.
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