Dear Monroe County Rootsweb List Members & others:: The following 26 families are listed in the "Familien Register" [Family Register] at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Columbia, Illinois. Much detailed information is given about each couple including their children and usually includes birth date and place; baptism date; immigration date; etc. The families are listed below in alphabetical order. Anyone interested in any of these families should check the following site for more information: _Columbia: St. Paul Luth. Family Register_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmonroe/churches/stpaul_fam_reg.html) (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmonroe/churches/stpaul_fam_reg.html) _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmonroe/churches/stpaul_fam_reg.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmonroe/churches/stpaul_fam_reg.html) (# 2) BECK, Jacob Adam (born 1812); married 1837 to Elisabethe REICHERT (born 1815) (# 12) BETHE, Heinrich Theodor (born 1806); married (#1) Dorothea GROTHEFEND (#2) Anna Cath. HARTMANN (born 1814) (# 25) BUNGE, Joh. Friedrich Wilhelm (b. 1838); married 1863 to Margarethe Maria BTASSE (b. 1846) (# 26) GENTSCH, Johann Heinrich (b. 1828); married 1856 to Johanne Louise Christiane WALLHAUSEN (# 5) HEISE, Johann Christian (b. 1808); married 1839 to Christiane Sophie JACOBS (born 1815) (# 7) HENFLING, Johann Georg (born 1807); married 1832 to Johanne Marie GUENZEROTH (born 1806) (# 10) HOFMANN, Johann Peter (born 1821); married 1852 to Lisette BRANDT (born 1833) (# 1) HOFFMANN, Wilhelm (born 1816); married 1837 to Rosina JENGER (born 1815) (# 8) KELLER, Johann (born 1822); married 1847 to Christiane Cath. BRANDT (born 1820) (# 9) KLITTICH, Ernst Ludwig (born 1817); married 1854 to Juliane SCHEIBLE (born 1833) (# 22) KREMMEL, Gebhardt (b. 1814); married 1849 to Sabine BUCHLE (born 1822) (# 11) LANDGRAF, Joh. Friedrich Carl (born 1826); married 1852 to Sophie Magdalene HERRLING (b. 1828) (# 15) MERZ, Joh. Severin (born 1821); married 1847 to Catharina VETTER (born 1822) (# 17) MICHEL, Andreas (born 1808); married 1832 to Johanne Marie WENTZEL (born 1802) (# 6) MILD, Jacob (born 1805); married 1840 to Anna Maria REICHERT (born 1808) (# 19) NOU, Michael (born 1817); married 1843 to Jacobine HOCHMUTH (born 1822) (# 4) REINBOTHE, Johann August (b. 1809); married 1847 to Johanna Rosine KAEMPFE (born 1811) (# 21) RITTERBUSCH, Friedrich (b. 1831); married 1857 to Anna Barbara AMEISS (born 1839) (# 20) RUEBELMANN, Georg Jacob (b. 1825); married 1848 to M. Fr. Hermine KLOEMANN (b. 1817) (# 24) RUHL, Johann (Jr.) (born 1841); married 1866 to Dorothea SIEBERT (born 1844) (# 16) RUHL, Ludwig (born 1815); married (#1) Catharina GLEIBER 1838 (#2) Bernhardine FRIERDICH 1848 (# 13) SCHEIBLE, Joh. Michael (born 1809); married 1832 to Magdalena BURGER (born 1811) (# 3) SCHMIDT, Heinrich (born 1816); married 1840 to Maria Anna REICHERT (born 1818) (# 23) SCHNEIDER, Johann Philipp (b. 1826); married 1848 to Eva Margaretha BAUMANN (born 1828) (# 14) STEUBLI, Joseph (born 1816); married 1848 to Anna Elisabetha VETTER (born 1814) (# 18) STRAUB, Georg Adam (born 1826); married 1848 to Catharine Dorothea BRANDT (born 1817) Bob Buecher