Timm’s Trilogy comes to an end today. I would like to give him a big “shout-out” for giving me a few days off. ======================================= Yesterday, we met Augusta’s second Christian Haupt and began looking at their family. We’ll continue now with her last known child, Carolina ‘Emma’ Haupt, who was born 21 May 1874 and … More Hauptidentitätsverschmelzung, Part 3
Timm Yamnitz is once again the author today’s post, which is a continuation of the one that was published yesterday. ====================================== We left off yesterday with the death of Augusta’s first husband, Christian Haupt. Like him, her second husband was also named Christian Haupt and he was also born in Sudheim, Kingdom of Hanover, where … More Hauptidentitätsverschmelzung, Part 2
Today’s post, along with the next two, are authored by Timm Yamnitz. Timm is a young man who was born and raised in Perry County but now resides in Germany. He is a resource that our museum has used on several occasions to translate German writings and find German records that we request. Timm volunteered … More Hauptidentitätsverschmelzung
Back when Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim got their first called pastor, Rev. Franz Julius Biltz, one of the first baptisms to be included in that congregation’s books was one for the man who will be highlighted in today’s post. The Lutherans in Friedheim had been served by Rev. Charles Gruber from Uniontown for a … More John Henry Kurre Finds a Drum
A wedding took place in or near Friedheim on this date 175 years ago, and I will attempt to tell the story of that bride and groom today. The marriage record for this couple is found in the books of Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim. Since that congregation’s first called pastor, Rev. Franz Julius Biltz, … More Minnie Haupt Finds Her Braunschweiger Maintz
I will be writing a story today that introduces some brand new names to this blog. Even though I found evidence that the surnames of the bride and groom have been around in this area for a very long time and also members of a local Lutheran church, I have not run across their names … More Mary and Joseph – Friedheim Kester’s
I recently mentioned that our German Family Tree now includes the records of Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim. Today’s story will include some families that showed up in that congregation’s books during their early years. After the German Lutherans arrived in Perry County in 1839, one of the first pastors, Rev. Carl Gruber, who was … More Dissen to Friedheim – Sudheim to Lixville
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
If the question asked in the title is answered “Yes”, then I can point out two events that took place on December 29th in this family line. I find this story especially interesting because I think it gives evidence of a family ending up in Perry County that arrived in America before the 1839 Gesellschaft … More Is There a Kasten in the Braeuner Past?
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
