Ken Craft, the creator of our ZionRoots Project, is an amazing genealogist. He has contributed so many resources that we have in our museum’s research library. Ken also married a Noennig, and today’s story will lead us into that family. We begin in a different family in which we find today’s birthday girl. Amanda Clara … More Arthur and Amanda – The Noennig’s
Eight children were born to the couple, Christian and Juliane (Kuehnert) Saalfeld. Of those eight, there were 3 sets of twins. There was one set of twin boys that died not long after birth. The other two sets of twins were girls, and only two of those 4 girls lived to adulthood. The remaining 2 … More Answers in Death Certificates
Paul Jacob Kuehnert is today’s birthday boy. He was born on October 21, 1893, so today, he would have been blowing out 128 candles on his birthday cake. Paul was the son of Julius and Emma (Schmidt) Kuehnert. The Kuehnert family grew up in the Seelitz area of East Perry County, and Paul was baptized … More Caring for Soles and Souls
Emma Maria Magdalena Bergt was born on July 19, 1891 in Frohna, Missouri. That makes today her 130th birthday. Emma was the daughter of Julius and Emma (Noennig) Bergt. Emma was born during a short time when Perry County was keeping birth records. Below is such a record for Emma. It needs to be displayed … More A Frohna Pair Follows Family to California
Today is a good day for me to do a story that only has two potential church records to view. I am once again out of town doing a grandparently duty, so I cannot display such church records. It seems that I have written several of these kinds of stories lately that involve an East … More Joe and Eunice Noennig
Whenever the Perry County Lutheran Historical Society welcomes new members to its organization, the old book shown below is brought out so that they can add their names to the historical list of people who have been members of that organization over the years. If you open this book to the beginning, you will find … More The Original Members of the Perry County Lutheran Historical Society
First, I must confess how I was attracted to one of today’s characters. I was looking for an event that took place on Christmas Eve. During my search, I discovered a birthday boy whose middle name was Rudolph. So off I went. I knew I wouldn’t find a man with a red nose, but I … More The Wittenberg Telle’s
One of the regular visitors from out of town that we have at our museum is a man that we call Junior Doering. He has acquired that name because he and his father had the same name, Walter Doering. Today, I will write the story of William Doering whose father was named William Doering. So, … More Another Junior Doering?
This post will have four major themes: A character would have been 200 years old today. A mother gives birth to three different sets of twins. All but one of the girls in this family who lived to adulthood never married. A name disappears. Johann Christian Friedrich Saalfeld was born on September 28, 1819. That … More Trios of Twins and Spinsters
If my cousin, Myrtle Kuehnert, could see the title of this post, it would certainly pique her interest. However, she is not likely to have anything to do with a computer or the internet, so the likelihood of her seeing it is rather slim. I know that Cousin Myrtle is moving past her 9th decade … More Kuehnert & Schmidt
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