Well, the thing is that I do know the entire history of who my great grand mother Antonia Wohlman married, including their wedding date and the church and where they were burried and pretty much all their children's birthdates and who they all married. We have lost track of where all the descendants are except for a few. I just don't know much about the prior generation .....in other words all I know about my great grand mother Antonia's parents is their names and estimated birth years. I have found them in the census of 1880, 1900, and 1910.......living in White Rock (Sherman Twp) of Huron County, Michigan. I still don't know where they came from in Bohemia and if they brought other children with them other than daughters Antonia and Emma. In FamilySearch.org I do see Wallmann, Wollmann and a few other spellings but all of the first names and birth years are different so how can I link any of these to my relatives? I wished that they would show the family trees of those Wallmann and Wollman people. As for my Wohlman's I do believe that's how they intended to spell the name because one of Antonia's children had "Wohlman" as his middle name. It is also written that way in Antonia's Funeral Guest book where they state who her father was....."Henry Wohlman" Thanks, Pam >From: "Linda Therkelsen" <lindatherkela@msn.com> >Reply-To: GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com >To: GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Wohlman Family >Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 11:20:18 -0500 > >Hmm, having gone through some of those basic sources, I think there might >be better ways to go about it. First, there WILL absolutely be >misspellings in American records of a name like Wohlman. In fact, >shouldn't it be Wohlmann in German? I would not rule out any names like >Wallmann or anything like it. I could also see it be spelled Wölmann and >lots of other ways. It would be better to look at first names of the >family members when you have anything close. >Now try going back to look at the more specific records for the county to >which they immigrated. Go to rootsweb and find that county and see what is >offered. Michigan has some major league databases for marriages, etc. If >you can figure out which Catholic church in which the marriages of the >children occurred, perhaps one of them will have the place where they were >born listed. You need to look at ALL of the children's marriages and >deaths, and all of the naturalization papers (hoping there are some boys). >Having figured out the Catholic church, check out some of their friends, >the people who were the godparents on baptisms, etc. They hang out with >the home crowd usually. In fact, they frequently marry some of the home >crowd. Look at local history for the church, and for the town. There may >be some clues. >Linda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: PJ V<mailto:netkitty@hotmail.com> > To: >GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 10:25 PM > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Wohlman Family > > > Thanks Karen. > > I went to FamilySearch.org and typed in the name "Wohlman" and got >results > showing many various spellings.......none were spelled as "Wohlman" >though. > None of them match the ancestors I know of. In Michigan there >was > Wallmann, and Wollmann all from Oberuldingen or Linden. There was >one > Antonia Wallmann born in 1841. My great grandmother Antonia Wohlman >was > born in 1864. I would like to see the family trees of the Wallmann's >in > Michigan to see if there is a relation but they don't show that. >They > just show the person's name and date of birth with very little else. > > I did find Grundbuchblatter Diverse, but I don't know how to use this > source. I don't speak or understand German. There doesn't seem >to > be a way to search names from that source. > > I will try writing to Alfred. > > Thanks, Pam > > > > > From: KarenHob@aol.com<mailto:KarenHob@aol.com> > Reply-To: >GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> > To: >GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Wohlman Family > Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:16:51 EST > >In a message dated 4/1/2006 12:25:17 PM Mountain Standard Time, > >netkitty@hotmail.com writes: > >I am searching for information on the Wohlman family from Bohemia. >My > >Great Grand Mother was Antonia Wohlman (b.1864 - d. 1941) who >immigrated > >abt > >1878 with her parents Henry Wohlman (b. > >1833) and Barbara (b. 1837)to Sherman, Michigan (Harbor Beach). >We > >know that her little sister Emma was 5 at the time when they >immigrated. > >Census records say that Henry and > >Barbara had a total of 5 children but we have never heard mention of > >others. Antonia married Henry Klug. Emma married William Pipper. > >Did you find the same number of children on all subsequent census? > >Maybe some of the children died. > > > > > > > > > > > >I have a porcelain figurine that she brought with her from the old >country > >and I wonder if I could post a picture of it here? I wonder if it >would > >look familiar to anyone as far as location of origin > >Mailing lists do not accept attachments. > > > >A lot of Bohemian porcelain came from the Bohemian forest area > >along the border with Bavaria. > > > >A lot of people from that same area went to Michigan. > > > > > > > >Unfortunately I don't know what city my Wohlman ancestors came > >from. They spoke German. In census records they at one time said >the > >came from Bohemia, then another time Austria. I have never heard > >their > >city of origin. > >Look for the name Wohlman or Wohlmann in the film at the LDS > >titled: Grundbuchblatter Diverse > > > >If Henry is in there, typically he would be in the records of men who > >served beginning in 1853. He may even have been involved in > >the war in Italy in 1859. > > > >You may find an earlier ancestor mentioned there. > >If you find any Wohlmann /Wohlman copy the record and then see what >the > >place of birth for each is. > > > >Go to LDS website: FamilySearch.org > >Type both spellings of Wohlman (one at a time) in the surname search >box > >on the home page and click search. > > > >Write to Alfred Piwonka and ask if the name Wohlman is found in > >the villages of the Bohemian forest. > >APiwonka@t-online.de > > > >Alfred is the coordinator for surnames in that area -- called a >"Betreuer" > >Introduce yourself, let him know if you can read German even if you > >can't write it. Write in English but just ask simple one line > >questions...no compound sentences. > > > > >>Is anyone else researching Wohlman? > > > >Do a surname search at the LDS library catalog search page to find out >if > >others have submitted research on the name. > > > >Karen > > > > > >==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > >Would you like to see messages that were posted before you joined the >list? > >To browse the archives, go to: > >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L/ > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Forgotten how to UNSUBSCRIBE? > Visit >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/mailinglist/mailinglist.html<http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/mailinglist/mailinglist.html> > > > >==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== >Visit the German-Bohemian Heritage Society Web Page! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ >