A Familienbuch is a list of births, marriages, deaths, that in this case was specific to the town I was looking at - Triebswetter which existed in what is now modern Romania, but when my ancestor emigrated from it, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was ethnic German living in a town full of Germans that had migrated to the area by invitation to work the land.
Back to the book - so I found out this book existed where someone had spent time transcribing all these records for Triebswetter into a book. I found the author in Germany and contacted him to see if any copies still existed. He didn't have any more but sent me an electronic version and we corresponded a bit back and forth. He found some other bits of info on Domelles and kindly sent to me, I filled him in on what happened to the one's I knew that emigrated. I told him to let me know if he ever printed more because I would love to own hard copies of the information.
And voila, he printed another set (with updates) just recently and you know I ordered a copy! I got them in the mail just last night, and tonight I sat down to look through it to see what kind of updates might exist for my ancestor families, but really I sat down to just hold the books while lisping out "My Precious Bookses, we waited for you and now you're here my preciouses....."
But I digress...I recently watched the new version of the Hobbit (part 1) and it kind of stuck with me...
Anyway, I found my William and then was shocked! My name was in there as providing the information of where William had immigrated to in the United States.
MY NAME!
IN THE BOOK!
I AM IMMORTAL!
