Vera,
I am
embarrassed 
for not remembering that you outlined that date for Georg & Barbara. I have now copied all of your messages into a Word file for later reference. But now that I went through the process myself, I can do it (hopefully now correctly) next time. I have been mapping all of the individuals with family names by date in Excel, in preparation for later to "connect the dots" when/if I find a birth or marriage record connecting them,
I do have a few more questions:
1. in the Kommunikanten records, I understand the abbreviations: uxor = wife, and vid.= widow(er) and fil = child, but what is "agric" and "ane" [or "aue"] and "frat" (frat = brother?)??
2. There are similar names and I wonder if in your experience you find mis-spellings by the scribes? For example Pruckner looks similar to Prikner and Bruckner. These are three spellings that look distinct and I have seen each of them multiple times in the records in the tiny village of Thansuess.
3. Similar Question to #2, In that document that you showed me that listed the families who occupied the various houses in Thansuess: Georg Kohl married Barbara Pruckner, and they moved into house #35 that was previously occupied by the family Bruckner. Do you wonder if that was also Barbara Pruckner's family?
4. in the Kommunikanten records, I can see that when a horizontal line follows a person's name, that means that the same last name is repeated. And do I understand correctly that when there is "fil" following that horizontal line, that the child is likely the child of the person above? But I also noticed that sometimes there were children listed in sequence with different last names. I was wondering if the author of the list was writing down the names in the order in which the people received communion. This might mean that the people next to each other on the list were probably seated together or near each other in the church. Does that seem like it is the situation? And we know that often people seated near one another in church are often family and friends. Since these are just lists of names, I am trying to seek out a means that may suggest relationships.
5. At this time in the past, was there a typical age at which the children began to receive communion? I did notice that each year there was listed those receiving Catechism/1st Communion.
6. I was looking in the Thansuess Kommunikanten records earlier than 1797 Dom. XV p. Trin (back through 1793) to see if I could find a listing of Georg and Barbara together but I don't see any. The one you found is the oldest, (and we know they married probably that same year too). Also I looked for Barbara Pruckner and I am not seeing her either, only Lorenz, his uxor, Phillipp who could be Lorenz's son (those three are often listed together), and Dorothea who always listed separately, and then Jacob Prikner appears from time to time. If Georg Kohl came from Mantel, perhaps Barbara Pruckner was from Mantel too?
My apologies for the length, but I find this all so fascinating. My Day Job is suffering as I am too distracted with the detective work ! Thank You,
Joe
