Family History Hunt

 If you read this last blog post , you know that I was sorting the parents for Gottlob Ortlieb and his children and stepchildren. He had two different wives, Paulina and Frederike and Frederike was previously married before she came to be Gottlob's second wife. In Emma's obituary, there was a brother named Rudolph, which is a name I had not come across before as a sibling. I did some research on him and found his obituary which really added to my confusion. It listed his parents as Gottlob and Fredericka, who is not the mother of Emma. I then located Fredericke's obituary, which listed NINE children (yes nine), all of whom I had never heard of except Rudolph and Ida (but she had an incorrect last name).  I wanted to know whose parents were whose so I went to work finding the obituaries for all the children in this family. I also wanted to know what the relationships were. Each time I found an obituary, I made a column in a table. I had all the family members listed on the l...

 Week 8: I Can Identify This week I want to focus on one ancestor that I can identify as one difficult to identify. You know, the one's where you just can't get a good handle on who they really are and if you have them combined with someone else. He is my 3rd great-grandfather, Gottlob Friedrich Ortlieb (LB19-N3R). He was confused with another man of the same name so I needed to identify what records went with my grandfather and which were for the other man of the same name. He was the last one with a blue record hint on my seven-generation FamilySearch fan chart and I really wanted to get rid of it! This was a case where you definitely needed to work backward. I found records for my 2nd great-grandmother that identified Gottlob with his spouse, Catherine Louise Pauline Roser. This turned out to be the biggest help in this research as their marriage record was how I differentiated between the two men. Luckily, the two men had parents with very different names so there was no co...