The early mornings and evenings of the last two days I spent pondering and writing on the profile of my 8th great-grandfather Gallus Bank. I mainly worked with the notes of #Hinterzarten parish priest Vincenz Zahn, who left over 200 pages of notes about the houses and their owners, which he compiled from the church books, an enquiry of the whole parish and a lot of archive visits in the early 1800s. It was touching to read the notes about Gallus that were written in the course of two years and to see, how Zahn learned more, crossed out passages and asked himself the same questions, which I did now.
Currently, it really seems that the author of the 1990s farm chronicles did not dive into this particular family as deep as I did (which makes sense, because he had to write a book about the whole village), so he just went for the easiest road and missed Zahn's final conclusion. Luckily, I had a source, they both very likely didn't have access to, which kind of confirms that the newer chronicles were wrong.
And now I am constantly obsessing about details from the case, asking myself if I really just landed a breakthrough in the still pretty scary field of "before church book #genealogy"?
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