The cheeky challenge..... Ancestry lookup...

[Chris Boonzaier]

OK,

This is for someone fit in Ancestry mazes... I would love to do it, but dont have a sign in at the moment.

For ages I have been looking for the 102nd pionier record of Alfons Hitzelberger

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/8085-was-it-possible/page__hl__hitzelberger

I found a record of him from 9.7.15 to 4.8.15 then he was sent to the "5th Ersatz Komp"...

from here on I find no further records. i assume that they cipied the name down wrong and the Ancestry search does not pick it up.

But now... a stroke of luck... I found another name...a man named Josef Prehofer was killed in the same month... and was a member of the 102nd...

There seem to be 6-7 Ancestry hits for him in the bavarian Army records...

MAYBE there is a possibility, if one of the hits is the company record... of nailing Hitzelberger? It may be a roundabout complicated search...

Another thought... is there any association membership deals for ancestry? A way to share the costs of membership?

Best

Chris

[christerd]

:jumping:

Got him ! Puhh had to look through about 450 names before he turned up , and wrong spelling of course.

Christer

[Chris Boonzaier]

Thank you , thank you, thank you!!!

That is really good. It was not possible to pull the Company record without the name of another guy in the unit, so "Prehofer" was the key.

Thanks a million.

Chris

[Chris Boonzaier]

P.S.

What imaginative name was he listed under?

Best

Chris

[christerd]

P.S.

What imaginative name was he listed under?

Best

Chris

It was really a small misstake but crucial to not finding him He was under HitzselSberger .... only an s but it did that he didnt turned up

Right now I´m looking through old ranklists and Staatskalenders to find another "mission impossible" a soldier with all three Hansa Crosses , the search goes on

Christer

[Ulsterman]

Bravo Christer!