September 21, 201015 yr Hi, I cannot remember if I have sent this link before but here goes just in case - Die Hausbücher der Nürnberger Zwölfbrüderstiftungen For those who have not heard of this basically in the early 1400's up to the sixteen hundereds there was in effect an old folks home just for men and for nearly three hundered years a record was made of every inmate, not only details of the person but also a full colour picture was painted of each man as he practiced his craft showing all the tools of his trade. Blacksmiths,coopers wheelwrights,furniture makers etc, each picture a wealth of details. When you bring up the main page on the left hand side it says bucher below which is listed Mendel 1 to 3 and Landaur 1 and 2 click on any of these titles and it will bring the listed book up in small pictures, click on one of these pictures and you get a slightly larger picture with details ( unfortunately all in german) Clck on this picture and it brings up a full size picture. On the two top corners of this page you can click here and browse through all the pages in large format. Click on datenansicht and it brings up the details for that picture. Where you see a union jack flag and subject terms clicking here will bring up quick search pages in English. It is a bit fiddly to start with but you soon get to grips with it - it is quick and there are hundereds of pictures. Enjoy :D
September 21, 201015 yr Author This might be a quicker link if I have got it right http://www.nuernberger-hausbuecher.de/
September 21, 201015 yr Bladesmiths: http://www.nuernberger-hausbuecher.de/index.php?do=query&mo=4&rs=1&tt=prs-jobnorm&tm=Klingenschmied Blacksmiths: http://www.nuernberger-hausbuecher.de/index.php?do=query&mo=4&rs=1&tt=prs-jobnorm&tm=Hufschmied :)
September 21, 201015 yr Well, there goes the rest of Tuesday. http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt is a big help if you really need to find out what one of those fellas is up to.
September 21, 201015 yr Author What I like are the little details such as the bars above the forges with the C clips for locking the ends of tongs
September 21, 201015 yr The Google Toolbar can also get you a fairly readable translation. I may have found a few relatives on there. None of them metal workers. (But there's always Georg Bauer, a.k.a. Agricola. I don't know that he's a relative, but I also don't know that he isn't.)
September 21, 201015 yr Now I'll need to go back through the Genealogy and see if Great-great-great-granddad shows up in there anywhere. ;-)
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