German Immigrants in American Church Records, Volume 30: West Central 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 and Austria.

Please note that there is a 4,211-surname index to this book at the end of this entry.

Typical entries from Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio are as follows:

• Rosine Barbara Haertlein b. Külsheim, Bayern 8 Dec 1826; d. 1 Nov 1910, age 83-10-23; bur. Hamilton, OH 4 Nov 1910; m. USA Spring 1870, Johann Georg Kilian. She immigrated in 1869. Ref: p. 2:573.
• Anna Jauch b. Württemberg 11 May 1832; d. 6 Nov 1910, age 78-5-25; bur. Hamilton, OH 9 Nov 1910; m. 1854, John George Heinlein; 2m. USA 18 Jan 1867, George Leonard Arnold. She immigrated in the early 1850s. Ref: p. 2:573.
• Anna Rosina Brobst b. Bayern 8 June 1827; d. 14 Nov 1910, age 83-5- 6; bur. Hamilton, OH 16 Nov 1910; m. Johann Schurz. She immigrated in June 1867. Ref: p. 2:573.
• Carl Ranke b. Preußen 11 Sept 1837; d. 3 Dec 1910, age 72-2-22; bur. Hamilton, OH 5 Dec 1910; m. USA 5 Nov 1857, Katharina Schneider. He immigrated in 1854. Ref: p. 2:573.
• Wilhelmine Maenke b. Sypniewo, Flatow, Westpreußen 3 July 1873; d. 6 Jan 1911, age 37-6-3; bur. Hamilton, OH 9 Jan 1911; m. USA 7 Oct 1891, Albert Miersch. She immigrated in 1883. Ref: p. 2:574.
• Henry Snavely b. Bayern 9 Dec 1849; d. 21 Jan 1911, age 61-1-12; bur. Hamilton, OH; m. USA 29 April 1879, Katharina Keller. He immigrated ca. 1854. Ref: p. 2:574.
• Katharina Fuhrmann b. Bayern 15 Feb 1851; d. 26 Jan 1911, age 59- 11-11; bur. Hamilton, OH 28 Jan 1912; m. ca. 1876, Georg Guenther. Ref: p. 2:574.
• Elisabeth Brueck b. Erda, Wetzlar, Rheinprovinz 25 Sept 1822; d. 5 Feb 1911, age 88-4-10; bur. Hamilton, OH; m. 1847, Friedrich Brucks; 2m. 1864, Johann Lichte. Ref: p. 2:574.
• Jacob Bollinger b. Nußdorf, Landau, Pfalz, Bayern 26 May 1863; d. 18 Feb 1911, age 47-8-22; bur. Hamilton, OH 21 Feb 1911; m. USA 15 April 1891, Theresa Weissmann. He immigrated on 12 Feb 1888. Ref: p. 2:574.

Volume 30 covers fifty-four churches found in Western Central Ohio. Seventeen of twenty-six counties in the region had records that were transcribed in this volume. The following list is made up of those counties. In parentheses is the number of churches covered for the county: Allen (4), Auglaize (4), Butler (4), Clark (1), Darke (5), Delaware (2), Fairfield (9), Franklin (5), Hardin (1), Mercer (5), Miami (3), Montgomery (3), Morrow (1), Pickaway (1), Shelby (3), Union (1), Van Wert (2).

For the complete list of churches whose records are in this volume, see: German Immigrants in American Church Records, Volume 30: West Central Ohio Protestant

Roger P. Minert, Ph.D.

2020, hard cover, every-name index, 623 pp.

ISBN: 9781628592948

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