The information shown below from our German Family Tree is the starting point for today’s post. As you can see, there is not much there. It contains only a baptism record and a marriage record from Grace Lutheran Church. As of the time of this writing, the German Family Tree does not contain records for … More Kurreville Store
The main character in today’s story will enable me to share a little history about a historic, but extinct, Lutheran church in this area. Before writing this story, I knew very little about this church. The research going into this post has enabled me to become much more familiar with it. Heinrich Lowes was born … More Trip to the Lowes in Arnsberg
Concordia Historical Institute has a site called Today in History at which you can find significant events that happened on a certain date throughout church history. That site can be found here: http://lutheranhistory.org/history/todayinhist.asp Here is what that site looks like. I have put a box around today’s date, March 12. If you were to click … More A Trio of Pioneer Pastors
The Grubers of Uniontown managed to marry off two of their daughters on two different May fifths……even though the date of these weddings is up for debate. Not only that, but they both married men who were pastors. To add to that, there was a third daughter who also married a pastor, and two of … More Dos Cinco de Mayos
Our research library has copies of church records from many local Lutheran churches which are often used by our visitors to study their family histories. We are excited that we will soon also have the church records of Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim, Missouri, about twenty miles away from Altenburg. The majority of the work … More Friedheim Records
May 27, 1873, was the wedding date for a couple whose parents spent some of their early time after the immigration in Perry County. Both of the groom’s parents and both of the bride’s parents spent those early years in and around Altenburg. The groom was Ferdinand Gerhard Walther and the bride was Bertha Emilie … More A Special Wedding with Perry County Roots
