My Trails into the Past

This is the last post for the April families (Wollenweber & Voehringer), though a day late. But I wanted to get the last piece posted, after doing all the work. The previous post about Philippina, my husband’s 2x-great-grandmother, covered her timeline from her 1834 birth and baptism in Württemberg to her 1913 death and burial in Louisville, Kentucky. There were hints to some of her family who also immigrated to the United States. In the small village of Unterhausen in Schwarzwald, Württemberg, lived her parents, Johan Adam Vöhringer and Maria Agnes Reiff . To them were born eight children. [1] Philippina was the second child and was named the same as the deceased first child, Philippina Margaretha. [2] The church has family registers that list the couple at the top, then their children below. There are reference pages to other families, for example, the husband might be linked to his parents’ page, and the children once married, will be linked to their own family page. ...

Philippina Voehringer Wollenweber was my husband’s paternal 2x-great-grandmother, the grandmother of his grandmother, Matilda Davey Gorrell. I am lucky that I found Philippina in the IGI very early in my research and have since found the church records of her family in the German state of Württemberg. Let us cover her timeline first, and then search for more documents in Full-text search and in newspaper search. 1834. May 26/28   Philippina Margaretha Vöhringer was born to Adam Vöhringer and Maria Agnes Reiff. She was baptized in the presence of Johan Reiff and two others, who are too difficult to read. [1] 1857. Sept. 1.        She arrived in New York aboard the SS Gebhard . She was listed as 30 years old and no occupation. [2]                                 COMMENT: The age is off, as age 30 woul...