This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KRUGER, BETHKE, SCHMIEGEL, SPITZER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TZo.2ACIB/178 Message Board Post: For those of us researching the Richard Kruger and Martha Bethke lineage... My cousins and I took a trip to Burton, TX last week and found our grandmother's christening record. YEA!! There had been some question as to her real name. It is listed on her christening record as Wilhelmine Emilie Martha Bethke. And she was born October 7, 1881, not the 6th as on her headstone. It lists Ludwig Bethke and Pauline Bethke as her parents. She was christened on Dec. 24, 1882 by E. Huber. Her sponsers were Wilhelmine Bethke, Emilie Gloff, Gottlieb Bethke, and Otto Rosenstreter (I think this probably should be Rosentreter). What a great find! You can imagine our excitement. Tricia