To femuse: I am most grateful to answer! Your arguments are extremely good and will try to go further with your input as soon as I can. Certainly, family tradition can be misleading - however, in other respects it has proven reliable. In this case the time scale may be false, so the origin Austria/S...

Any hint on how to proceed with my problem below? I joined Geneanet because of its focus on European genealogy. Christopher Jacob Haak, born on 16 August 1784 and ancestor on my maternal line, came according to family tradition from the border region of Austria/South Germany. It is said that he trie...