Genealogy is a never ending hobby, just as we find out one piece of information, it opens up more questions and possibilities, and many times the search will throw up another family name to add to the on-going searches, making the hobby ever growing.

The FreeBMD site has revolutionised our searches. Obtaining the page and volume numbers from their site for our particular ancestor makes it a simple task to order certificates from the Family Records Office, who must have a huge turn over in copying certificates. Having the page and volume numbers means that a simple phone call to them will produce the next information for our searches. Their telephone ordering service is of valued assistance to disabled people.

Also the local council archives are helpful by telephone for information pertaining to addresses in their areas. I've just had an idea, I can ring the local council for Twickenham and see who owned and lived in the house Wilhelm lived in for 1940...yes!...that will be interesting, if it lists his wife's name, it will let me know if he married again.

I now have my great grandfathers birth certificate from the Pfarramt Maria Himmelfahrt Katholisch Church in Schwaz, Tirol, Austria thanks to the information from Moving Here site giving the place of his birth.

I now also know his mother's name, Maria Wolf. Maria's father Alois Wolf was a shoemaker from Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria. Her mother Walpurga Pollinger was also from Innsbruck.

Wilhelm's father Johann Wilfling worked as a clerk in a cigar factory in Furstenfeld, Styria, then moved to Schwaz, Tirol, to another cigar factory, there he married Maria who was 19 years of age; Johann was 33 years old. Johann's father was a night watchman in Furstenfeld and hailed from Steiermark also in Styria. Here in Steiermark there were Wilflings going back to 1600.

Wilhelm had 8 siblings: Maria, Johann, Anna Maria, Karl, Otto, Eugen, Laura (died) and Laura (survived). Wilhelm's brother Eugen left Austria for Ellis Island in 1896 at the age of 25.

All very fascinating, and none of it I could have pieced together without the information on your site.

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