{"id":886,"date":"2009-08-01T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/german-brick-walls\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T18:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T23:42:27","slug":"german-brick-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/german-brick-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"German Brick Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The topic for the 22nd edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcarnival.com\/bc\/cprof_2939.html\">Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy<\/a> is roadblocks and breakthrough encountered during your genealogy research.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have actually had some breakthroughs with my German ancestors, although it\u2019s all been through research here in the U.S.\u00a0 Now, they\u2019ve become my German brick walls, as I am having a hard time finding information across the pond.<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons they are now brick walls:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In some cases, I don\u2019t know where in Germany to start looking.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t know enough about Germany to effectively search.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t speak\/read German, so when I do find something with potential, I can understand it (online translators do help).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I am going to use this carnival topic to share what I have found so far on each of my direct-line German ancestors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emil MILLER &amp; Hulda WACH<\/strong> \u2013 Emil and Hulda are my second great-grandparents.\u00a0 Alternate spellings I have come across for Miller are Muller and Mueller (with and without the \u00fc).\u00a0 From the information I have gathered, I believe he was born in Germany around 1862.\u00a0 He and Hulda married on 8 August 1886 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.\u00a0 They had three children:\u00a0 Heinrich \u201cHenry\u201d Frederick, Emil Charles, and Ida (all born in Chicago).\u00a0 Except for their marriage, I cannot find Emil in the U.S. and suspect that he died before 1900 (I have yet to find a death certificate).\u00a0 As for Hulda, she remarried in 1901 to John Fred SEVERING, had another daughter, Lilian, and then I lose her after the 1910 census.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t the slightest clue where to look for them in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henry WACH &amp; Amelia WIETZKE<\/strong> \u2013 Henry and Amelia are my third great-grandparents.\u00a0 This is a recent discovery.\u00a0 I\u2019ve known of Amelia (also spelled Emillie) since I started my research, as she is found with her children in the U.S. up through the 1920 census.\u00a0 I had no idea who her husband was, nor her maiden name.\u00a0 A few months ago, I obtained her son Henry\u2019s death certificate.\u00a0 Lo and behold, it listed his father\u2019s name AND Amelia\u2019s maiden name and confirmed that they were both born in Germany\u2026jackpot!!\u00a0 Since Amelia remarried while in Germany, I suspect that Henry died in Germany.\u00a0 But again, I have no idea where to start looking for either of them.\u00a0 Henry and Amelia had three children: Hulda (mentioned above), Alvina, and Heinrich :Henry\u201d Emil.\u00a0 Amelia married an unknown SCHULTZ and had another daughter, Mildred.\u00a0 All of the children were born in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Herman LEPPIN &amp; Minnie HAEMFIFLER<\/strong> \u2013 Herman and Minnie are my second great-grandparents.\u00a0 Research indicates that they were both born in Germany.\u00a0 Herman was born on 22 March 1873 and died on 31 March 1948 in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona.\u00a0 Family notes indicate that Minnie was born in 1872 and died in 1946.\u00a0 They were married on 26 March 1894 in Cook County, Illinois.\u00a0 Together they had four children:\u00a0 Alma Mary, Henry August, Herman Paul, and Charles F. all born in Cook County, Illinois.\u00a0 Nothing as of yet points to where to further my research in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phillip ROTTMAN &amp; Mary Eva REEDER<\/strong> \u2013 Phillip and Mary are my second great-grandparents.\u00a0 Family notes indicate that Phillip was born in Germany, while Mary was born in France.\u00a0 The notes also indicate that they were married in France.\u00a0 Research indicates that Phillip and Mary had six children:\u00a0 John W (born in Georgia), Anna E (born in Missouri), Malissa Elizabeth (born in Pennsylvania), Charles Henry (born in Iowa), Mabel Louise (born in Pennsylvania), and George (born in Iowa).\u00a0 Research also indicates that Phillip was born in Bavaria, so I guess this could be a place to start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles STOFFEL &amp; Mary BRAUN<\/strong> \u2013 Charles and Mary are my second great-grandparents.\u00a0 Of all the direct-line German ancestors, there is potential to finding information on the across the pond.\u00a0 Family papers indicated that they were born in Frankfurt, but I was able to confirm that at least Mary appears to have been born in Frankfurt as it is indicated on her death certificate (which I just recently obtained).\u00a0 I have not been able to find a marriage certificate for them in Illinois, so I suspect they may have been married in Germany.\u00a0 Charles and Mary had seven children, all born in Illinois:\u00a0 Henry C, Anna E, Margaret, Charles L, Elsie A, William, and George.\u00a0 I started to do a little digging when I confirmed that Mary was born in Frankfurt, but was unable to find anything relevant.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it; my German brick walls.\u00a0 I hope to do a little digging on Charles STOFFEL and Mary BRAUN since they\u2019re the only ones that I have some proof of where in Germany they came from.\u00a0 I am heading to SLC in September, and they are on my list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic for the 22nd edition of Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy is roadblocks and breakthrough encountered during your genealogy research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[325,330,331,337,343,347],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-personal-research","tag-family-muller-miller-prussia","tag-family-reeder","tag-family-rottman","tag-family-stoffel","tag-family-wach","tag-family-wietzke","cat-25-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-ei","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}