Wimmers Family Line

Wimmers Family Line

I met a fellow genealogist online yesterday by the name of Emily who was researching the Wimmers for her husband. I ended up late for bed and a little worried about my research of this branch.

She has a nice website with her sources on it.

Emily believes her husband is a descendant of Johann Wimmers through Gottfried Wimmers. However a different Johann than the one I have in my tree. Meaning she believes there are two Johann Wimmers. Actually in my tree our two Johanns are merged into one. Since I was not looking for a second Johann, and I have not completed my research of the Wimmers line, I cannot claim she is wrong. She has obviously spent some time on this and it is well researched. Therefore I am making plans to go back to Jüchen and see the records again.

Some of the things I will be looking for:

1. A Johann Wimmers born in 1837.
2. Johann Wimmers (Gottfried's father) mortality record.
3. Sibille Catharine Cremer's mortality record. Gottfried's marriage record (1833) states she had already passed.
4. Anna Maria Müller (Gottfried's mother-in-law) mortality record. The marriage record states she has also passed.
5. The marriage record of Marie Agnes Wimmers (Gottfried's sister) and Johann Wilhelm Eschweiler (m. 1835).
6. The birth record of at least one child:  Gertrud Eschweiler (b. 1839)

Witnesses from Gottfried's marriage record:

1. Jordan Wimmers (b. 1807) is listed as a brother.
2. Bernhard Hamacher (b. 1782) is listed as an uncle. Unfortunately in the Garzweiler records, he is listed as "an uncle of the married couple", meaning I do not know if it is Gottfried's or Maria's uncle.
3. Also a Bernhard Müller (b. 1767) is listed as an uncle. I am always amazed how differently they spell the same names sometimes. The Bernhard for Hamacher and Müller look like two different people wrote it.

The last witness is just a neighbor.

I also want to research Theodor Wimmers line and see if I can connect him to Gottfried.

I have put in a vacation day for October 15th. With the American holiday on the 14th, this will give me two days to research the records. I will also contact Keyenberg beforehand and see if I cannot convince them to let me look at the records myself. Last time they claimed the records are too fragile. If not, I will have to let them do what they can.

Findagrave.com

 

All right, sometimes I can be really DUMB! For years I have been looking at this site and not understanding how it works! I always thought local individuals there on the ground would add in the different memorials of individuals at that cemetery and once they were listed, you could request a photo.

The idea that ANYONE can create a memorial if they know where an individual was buried never occurred to me. After listening to a podcast about the site, I immediately created a memorial for Samuel & Jennie (Rosenthal) Hart and had a picture of their tombstone within three days! That just saved me a trip to Boston!

I have begun to create a few more memorials, plus I have been requesting others transfer some of my family members over to me.

Study! Study! Study!

Now that summer is about over and vacation is done, I told myself I was going to start studying for my accreditation. Though I did not get to it last night while conferring with Emily.

I am currently reading Becoming an Accredited Genealogist: Plus 100 Tips to Ensure Your Success, Revised Edition.

Dörrmoschel Book

 

Birth Records

So all of the profiles have been created on the Werelate.com site. Here are the links:  August Britzius, Philippina Burkart, Johannes Degen, Johann Theodor Drescher, Maria Luise Mathilde Drescher, Jakob Ehresmann, Elisabetha Fechter, Isaac Frank, Johanna Frank, Ludwig Frank, Maximilian Frank, Moses Frank, Rosina Frank, Elisabetha Franzreb, Friedrich Franzreb, Carl Gauch, Adolf Geib, Elisabetha Gress, Elisabetha Hager, Jacob Herr, Ludwig Herr, August Herrgen, Jacob Killian, Elisabetha Koch, Jacob Koch, Karolina Koch, Elisabetha Maue, Charlotta Mehrhof, Katharina Mehrhof, Ludwig Mehrhof, Otto Mehrhof, Otto Mehrhof, Philippina Mehrhof, Carolina Neu, Jacob Neu, Philipp Neu, Adolf Rahm, Wilhelmina Rahm, Carl Rembe, Christian Risswig, Friederica Risswig, Helena Risswig, Elisabetha Römer, Katharina Römer, Peter Römer, Philipp Römer, Magdalena Scheu, Philippina Scheu, Ludwig Schmidt, Gustav Schneider, Friedrich Schultheis, Heinrich Teuscher & Wilhelm Teuscher

Mortality Records:

I have also finished compiling the mortality records and I have added in some of those individuals to the site:  Jacob Böhmer, Peter Degen, Katharina Louisa Drumm, Child Geib, Julius Honig, Anna Elisabetha Koch, Herrmann Neumann, Peternella Wagner

Marriage Records:

 

I still have a couple pesky marriage records that I am translating. One of them from 1870 is extremely complex and I am taking it in very small blocks. The other one I am having trouble reading some of the information in the margin, so I am going to have to head back to the records and take a close-up of the text.

Well that is it for now. Happy hunting!