German Immigrants in American Church Records, Volume 26: Northwest Ohio Protestant

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Dr. Minert and a team of researchers at BYU are currently involved in a project wherein they read and extract Americans' German vital records from historic local church vital records. These church records often pinpoint German origins in the "old country." Places and dates of birth, marriage, and previous residence in Germany are commonly found in these records. Dr. Minert estimates that 65-76 percent of historic local church records give an immigrant's exact place of birth. Entries found in the volumes include people born in Switzerland.

Please note that there is a 4,349-surname index to this book at the end of this entry.

Typical entries from the Emmanuel German Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Lindsey, Sandusky County, Ohio are as follows:

• Christian Bohlmann b. Lashorst, Schleswig-Holstein 1835; bp. 1835; son of Carl Bohlmann and Wilhelmine Levermann. Ref: p. 1:11.
• Johann Wetjen b. Brinkum, Hannover 22 May 1811; bp. 1811; m. 1838, Katharine Adelheit. Ref: p. 1:12.
• Katharine Adelheit b. Suterode, Hannover 1803; bp. 1803; m. 1838, Johann Wetjen. Ref: p. 1:12.
• Georg Franz Netscher b. Groß Bieberau, Hessen 19 Feb 1802; bp. 1802; m. 1830, Elisabethe Barbara Mueller. Ref: p. 1:13.
• Elisabethe Barbara Mueller b. Rodau, Hessen 14 May 1807; bp. 1807; d. 5 Sept 1854; m. 1830, Georg Franz Netscher. Ref: p. 1:13.
• Carlothe Hornung b. Ruppertsweiler, Pirmasens, Bayern 16 March 1828; bp. 1828; m. USA 1846, Aron Kratzer. Ref: p. 1:14.
• Caspar Heinrich Hieseman b. Altendorf, Preußen 25 Dec 1802; bp. 1802; d. 12 Oct 1865; m. Germany 1823, Maria Engel Juesting. Ref: p. 1:15.
• Maria Engel Juesting b. Lindorf, Hannover 22 April 1802; bp. 1802; d. 20 March 1861; m. Germany 1823, Caspar Heinrich Hieseman. Ref: p. 1:15.

This volume includes church vital records from fifteen of sixteen Northwest Ohio counties. Those counties with the numbers of churches extracted are as follows; Williams (4); Defiance (2); Paulding (0); Fulton (1); Henry (5); Putman (2); Lucas (4); Wood (8); Hancock (3); Ottawa (7); Sandusky (4); Seneca (4); Wyandot (2); Erie (3); Huron (5); and Crawford (7). Churches in the City of Toledo (Lucas County) are featured separately in volume 27 of this series.

For the complete list of churches whose records are in this volume, see: German Immigrants in American Church Records, Volume 26: Northwest Ohio Protestant

Roger P. Minert, Ph.D.

2019, hard cover, every-name index, 656 pp.

ISBN: 9781628592566

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