Dear Dj, thank you for the updates! I still have the 5 Welschensteinach films to go through at the local FHC here since last Winter! and no time---at least my available hours do not match theirs. Hopefully I will have time soon. I still need to solve the question of why Emerentia (Messmer) Schwendemann went back to Welschensteinach in 1861 (after being in America since 1854) where she died in 1862 karenq > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [Ortenau] Johann Illuminatus Ketterer > From: > "djweber" <djwdjw@ix.netcom.com> > Date: > Sat, 4 Oct 2008 11:42:51 -0500 > To: > <deu-bad-ortenau@rootsweb.com> > > To: > <deu-bad-ortenau@rootsweb.com> > > > To those I remember sending part of my Schwendemann-Ketterer file > (KAREN, FRANK) and to those others I know I had sent part of the same > file..... > > The families of Johann Martin Schwendemann of Welschensteinach > (1726-1796) > and Maria Magdalena Ketterer of Runzengraben/Steinach (1729-1799) need an > adjustment from my original listing information. > > The eldest sibling of Maria Magdalena Ketterer was originally entered > in my > file as Johannes Ketterer because Latin script or not, I could not > read the > second name shown in the baptismal entry. > > Usually I can stare at a name and whether it is Latin or German script > eventually figure out was was written but this confused me too much. > > The first line easily identified "Johannes". > The second lime of the name appeared to be "J Ouminat"...with a swirl > at the > end. > > Staring at the second name did not give me an answer and I held the > block-form baptismal entry for well over a year wondering what the > correct > name may have been. Finally, I gave up and asked WENDELIN for help. > > Within minutes, I had my answer from Wendelin. What I did not and > would not > have known was identified Illuminatus which turned out to be a proper > Saint's name. The believed upper case O was correctly two lower case > "ells" > with the first ell having its top curved to the right and the second ell > having its top curved to the left...the letters joining. > > So if Karen, Frank or any others have a Johannes Ketterer baptismal > date of > June 6, 1725 in their records, please correct the name to Johann > Illuminatus > Ketterer. > > djweber > djwdjw@ix.netcom.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To contact the DEU-BAD-ORTENAU list administrator, send an email to > DEU-BAD-ORTENAU-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the DEU-BAD-ORTENAU mailing list, send an email to DEU-BAD-ORTENAU@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEU-BAD-ORTENAU-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. >