About This Site
This site developed from an interest in family history to an interest in the ancestral village of Soufflenheim, culminating in a website devoted to the subject, created to share interesting, unusual, and hard to find Soufflenheim genealogical and historical information, including over 2,000 inventories, contracts, marriage contracts, and wills from 1368 to 1791, many completely translated.
If you would like to receive updates when new information is found, send your name, email, and the name(s) you are researching to: rswideen@gmail.com
Translations by Marie-Odile Peres
Painting: The Cattle Tender, Gustave Brion, 1857
Home Page: View of Soufflenheim From the Bridge Over the Fallgraben, Jacques Gachot, 1953, Courtesy of Marc Elchinger
Acknowledgements
A number of people and organizations have provided records, historical information, and other assistance.
A special thanks to my researcher Marie-Odile Peres, whose skills made many of the most important records possible; to Mark Drexler, enormously talented and helpful in innumerable ways, whose substantial contributions include the Soufflenheim Birth Index 1792-1862 and the Soufflenheim 1836 Census; and to Michael J. Nuwer, a remarkable researcher, genealogist, and prodigious writer, who has generously shared many of his essays and other work.
Other major contributors include Chris Bowman, Kelly Cooper, Marc Elchinger, Phil Hauser, Kathleen O'Farrell, Celine Kieffer-Ikhelif, Rosa Raiman, Mark Reinhart, Rhoda Spencer, Brian J. Smith, Diane Strickler, and Jann Wojcik.
Additional contributions by Annette Cook, Vince Falter, Todd Farmerie, Chantal Geyer, Lynda Goldman, Ken Hanson, Rhonda Berst Hastings, Michael Heschung, Mary Ing, Jerry Kieffer, John Leppert, Paul McEwen, Antoine Merkel, Brad Middleton, John Rogalewski, and Bill Uhrich.
Also the Maryhill Historical Society, Societe D’Histoire et D’Archeologie du Reid Nord, SRA Alsace, Pôle d’Archeologie Interdépartmental Rhėnan, and the Soufflenheim Town Hall and Tourist Office.
My thanks to everyone for their help and support.
Robert Wideen
New York City : 2024