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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:01:13 -0500
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From:         BONGIOVIRP@WORF.ME.VT.EDU
Subject:      Two Questions...
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Hi all!

With all the discussion on the FHC FamilySearch system, I would like
to tell of an interesting discovery (at least to me), and then ask a
few questions that have come up through this source.

We were at the FHC for the first time.  Because of this, we were just
kind of playing around, getting to know the resources there.  While
trying to get the film # for a source found on the IGI fiches, we
noticed a "locality search" section in the Family History Library Index
section of the family search system.  Now, the guy we happened to find in
the IGI my wife's ggggrandfather and helped found a church in the small
town of Howard's Grove, WI.  Since his info was there, we did a locality
search for Howard's Grove, WI.  (By the way, the IGI info was from
the German IGI index, and is not related to this.)  The locality search
came up with church records for a Trinity Lutheran Church in Howard's Grove.
He helped found the 1st Lutheran Church.  Too bad.  But my wife informs
me that Howard's Grove is probably not big enough for two churches, much
less two Lutheran Churches, so on a whim, we order the film.

Two weeks later, after Christmas, we came to look at the film.  FamilySearch
said it was in German and English, so I checked-out a German to English
dictionary from the library, and found a text file on German words used
in official documents.  We found the records on film and low and behold,
on the first page of the first section (Baptism Records), entry #15,
was the entry for Ernst Wehrman's second child (his first was too old
to be in this register).  Now, we have information on him and on his
family, but only from an informal family bible.  After two trips, and
about 4 hours, we have made it through the baptism register and part
of the confirmations.  We have found information on his family, families
who's children his children married, and possible families that are
in other lines.  We also have found two problems I would like to ask
questions on.

The first question stems from my inability to read German and the scrawl of
the person who wrote the register.  Maybe one of you can help.  The final
column of the register has the heading "Namen die Pashen", which may not be
spelled correctly.  In this column, there are two to four names, usually
with different surnames.  The first names are usually the same as the childs.
ie.  If the child was Dorthea Sophia, the names of the people would be
Dorthea _______ and Sophia ________.  Needless to say, the people listed
in this column were the same sex as the child.  Now, what I can't figure out
is if this was the column for witnesses, and the tradition was to name
the child after the witnesses of the baptism, or if this column just listed
the names of the people the child was named after.  Any help?

My second question is a little more important.  While the names in the
baptism register and the names in the family bible match up pretty well,
There is one major disagreement.  In the family bible, there are two
children named Henriette and Louise.  In the baptism register, child #2
was named Henriette Dorothea Louise.  But, the 4th child was named Henriette
(no middle names listed).  There was no Louise listed and there is a
Dorthea listed both in the Baptism register and the family bible.  Also,
I know that they both lived long enough to be confirmed, and that Henriette
was two years younger then Hennreitte Dorothea Louise.  Both children were
born in the early 1850's.  Could it be that this Henriette Dorothea Louise
was called Louise and therefore recorded in the informal family bible as
such?  How common is this.  I may be able to solve this problem when I get
to the wedding register, if both children are listed, because the spouses
were also listed in the family bible.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for reading this long letter and thanks in advance for any help.

Rob Bongiovi - Blacksburg, VA
Internet:  bongiovirp@vtme.me.vt.edu
  Bitnet:  bongiovirp@vtpooh

Researching:
FROMM(WI),  HAACK(WI),  HINZ(GER>WI),  KOEHLER(WI),  MEINNERT(WI),
STOCK(WI),  THIEL(WI),  WEHRMAN(GER>WI)
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