Happy Easter everyone I was wondering if anyone would want to help out with a long standing brick wall. It is for my 4th great grandparents John Crisler and Margaret Alton. I have gotten help for this brick wall. I was thinking maybe a fresh set of eyes can help out. There is a few problems though the last name of the family is spelt differently an insane amount of times and I have no clue on what town my 4th great grandparents are from as they're from Germany and have had no luck finding immigration records for them. I have had no luck finding them on the 1860 census either. Most records for these people are on there familysearch profiles. John's profile https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pe...tails/9NX9-JD8, Margaret's profile https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pe...tails/9NX9-JDF. My goal is to find the parents for John and Margaret ir more info on Margaret's father. I hope to find the town of origin.
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Just starting to look at Margaret. It would have been so much easier if her mother's name had been on her death cert!
for others looking (US Death cert)
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...=successSource
First thought - have you looked for the obit? It looks like the Linton library has a genealogy section. If they can't do an obit lookup , they may know where you can go to get it
As a means of educating patrons who request a genealogy search, this would be helpful: Include in a request to the genealogy department as much information as you have i.e. birth date with month, day, year, place of birth (county, city), date of death, day, year, place, and any family history (ancestors or current relatives). When genealogy is not successful in research requests, patrons may contact the Greene County Historical Society @812-384-8400 or the Greene County Clerk's office @812-384-8532 Indiana Genealogy in.gov has an online service to order birth and death certificates, Indiana Death Registry, etc. www.familysearch.org Free Family History, Family Tree, and Genealogy Records/Resources
Small town newspapers loved long obits, tho all info should be verified.
Others more familiar with Germany might comment on recovering her birth cert from 1827... without more info that seems like a tall barrier.
EDIT - obit on findagrave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...aret-christler
(think you already know that, but others may find it useful)
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FS has the Catholic church records for Linton, but supposedly they are indexed, and I didn't find her death there. Nonetheless, it might be useful to page thru them, but they are restricted to in-person viewing at a family history center.
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Have you looked at the Greene County histories
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note that there are also indexes to the histories. If you're lucky, your ancestors, or one of their children, would be in there. They were in Indiana early enough that it might have them.
Please share what happened with looking for Margaret's and John's marriage? Seems odd that Margaret would have crossed the ocean by herself, but not impossible.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...aret-christler Here is an obituary for Margaret PhotoFamily
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Originally posted by keldon View Post
KristleyBrickWall Likely that they were married in/near Galveston, but there are all kinds of possibilities, like, they married just before they got on the boat; he came first and established himself, then she came and they married as she got off the boat; they married and moved...
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So, pandemic shut down and distance to locations hamper research again...
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Genetic genealogy might be of assistance. Y-DNA for a direct male line might connect with the German surname branch. FamilyTreeDNA.com is considered a front runner, but there is a German company that also does Y-DNA testing. When you buy a test, you buy the analysis, but you're also buying access to the database. If you can test at one and migrate to the other, that would be great. Otherwise, why not go with the German database
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PhotoFamily This side of the family is on my maternal line and Charles Kristley's wife Gertrude Bramble is my direct maternal third great grandmother
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Originally posted by KristleyBrickWall View PostPhotoFamily This side of the family is on my maternal line and Charles Kristley's wife Gertrude Bramble is my direct maternal third great grandmother
Autosomal testing could also be useful, but with the generational distance to the unknown ancestors, it would be much more difficult to be certain of the results' meaning.
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Once you locate the town of origin, german records are quite detailed.
civil registration didn't begin until 1874, the year prussia united the german states into the kingdom of germany. Prior to this, you're looking at church records.
it's important to know what religion they were, and catholic seems to imply a western (rhineland) or southern (bavarian) origin.
once you know the town, you will be able to find their marriage (if not in the U.S.) and their births.
Generally west and central german records are more detailed and survived well from the wars, over eastern german states.
have you managed to find siblings or possible siblings?
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Well, there's a Labor of Love that you could try (if you haven't already). FS has some Catholic church records for Galveston. I'm not finding an index for St Mary's, so...it's an exercise for someone else. St Mary's seems to be the only church in the right time frame. It would be interesting to know if it was the only Catholic church in 1850, or if it is the only one that FS has records for
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That said - FS also has records of Texas Marriage Licenses, and I didn't find anything for either of them. I both looked thru a film of an index (only to 1850) as well as searched the transcribed index - no joy.
The same church has baptisms, which have been transcribed - not finding John William. So, perhaps a different church?
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kylejustin no siblings were found or any idea for them I can't find any immigration records for them either
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