Johanna Susanna Weiser/ Wiser was born, according to her gravestone, 30 Apr 1809, in Germany. She married Jacob Weiss/ Wise between 1832 and 1838, and subsequently they lived in Highspire, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He also formerly lived there, as his daughter by his first marriage was born there according to her death certificate. She was also known as Joana Susanna, and her husband called her Hannah. I’m trying to figure out how her middle name could have been Susanna if she was born in Germany, but I’m told it’s not impossible. Jacob and Johanna owned five adjacent village plots of land on the railroad track in downtown Highspire, and there were two small wooden frame houses on this land. In the 1870 census, their next door neighbors were their daughter Regina E., her husband, Peter Day, and their son Charles. I’m figuring the Day family lived in the other small wood frame house. The census tells us that Jacob and Johanna were both born in Pennsylvania, Regina and Charles were born in Pennsylvania, but Peter Day was born in Wurttemberg. Actually, Jacob Weiss was born in Switzerland, Johanna was born in Germany, and Peter, Regina and Charles were all born in Pennsylvania. Peter was of English stock and didn’t even have ancestors from Wurttemburg. Since Wurttemburg is in Germany, not in Pennsylvania and not in Switzerland, I tend to suspect that Johanna was from Wurttemberg, and the census enumerator was scrambled. I understand that the ministers of Wurttemberg kept excellent records. On the lower Rhine, German ministers in fact kept excellent records hundreds of years before this. But where are the records kept? Is there any central database or index I could use if I know someone’s name, their exact date of birth, and I know they are from Wurttemburg? Ancestry and Family Search aren’t being much help. Thanks! Yours, Dora Smith