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Family History Library To-Do List

Lutheran KEMPER of Berleburg

1. KEMPER of Berleburg
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/286828?availability=Family%20History%20Library
• 8206328 --> 14 Feb 1758 marriage of Jost Henrich KEMPER

Catholic ZIMMER's of Reichenbach

1. ZIMMER family in Reichenbach of Girlachsdorf, Breslau (postcard says Reichenberg, Getmansdorf, Breslaugh, Silesia)   Could be Güttmannsdorf (see below)
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=48649&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Germany%2C%20Preu%C3%9Fen%2C%20Schlesien%2C%20Girlachsdorf%20(Kr.%20Reichenbach)%22&subjectsOpen=403162-50,396578-50
• CIVIL RECORDS ARE DONE
• Kirchenbuch, 1715-1865 https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/653572?availability=Family%20History%20Library
• Birth of Paul on 31 Jan 1863.  Siblings?  1850-1865?   
• Parents Eduard and Pauline marriage about 1854-1857
• Look for 1878 birth of August Franz Petau and earlier marriage of his parents Franz PETAU and Hidelgard MILENZ
• Death of Pauline on 25 Jan 1882 in Civil Records? https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/355259?availability=Family%20History%20Library
• Marriage of Paul and Emilie?  19 Feb 1887
2. WALTHART family of Kostenblut 
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=49080&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Germany%2C%20Preu%C3%9Fen%2C%20Schlesien%2C%20Kostenblut%22
• Pauline ZIMMER born about 1861 married Konrad WALTHART and had three children. Max (29 Aug 1893), Paul Robert (abt 1895), and Hedwig (abt 1900)
3. KIRCHNER family of Breslau
• Anna ZIMMER born about 1860 married Robert KIRCHNER in Feb 1883 and had Paul and Emma in Breslau May 1885 and Dec 1886. 
• Wedding in Breslau, indexed as https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NZDM-ZL9
• Might also have been married in Reichenbach in Feb 1883? https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/355259?availability=Family%20History%20Library 
4. Mystery family in Gnadenfrei, Schlesien
• Perhaps ZIMMER or PETAU?
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=48663&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Germany%2C%20Preu%C3%9Fen%2C%20Schlesien%2C%20Gnadenfrei%22
5. ZIMMER family in Seherrswaldau -- aka Olbersdorf aka Byszów, Poland
• This MAY be where Eduard ZIMMER was born -- and perhaps siblings.  Father may be Christoph ZIMMER.   
• Possible sister of Eduard was born 27 April 1819
• Eduard was born 2 Nov 1826
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=49505&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Germany%2C%20Preu%C3%9Fen%2C%20Schlesien%2C%20Olbersdorf%20(Kr.%20Reichenbach)%22
• CIVIL RECORDS ARE DONE
6. ZIMMER family in Waldenburg - https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/982040?availability=Family%20History%20Library
• Helene Zimmer born about 1890?
• Heinrich Zimmer married to ? about 1890?
• Civil records? https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=72124&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Poland%2C%20Wroc%C5%82aw%2C%20Wa%C5%82brzych%20(Wa%C5%82brzych)%22&subjectsOpen=385429-50 

Catholic PETAU of Güttmannsdorf, Reichenbach, Breslau, Silesia

1. Pauline PETAU and also anything ZIMMER there?
2. Maybe Franz PETAU and Anna Marie Welz both born about 1800?
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=48793&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Germany%2C%20Preu%C3%9Fen%2C%20Schlesien%2C%20G%C3%BCttmannsdorf%22&subjectsOpen=396579-50,696895-50
3. WELZ of Stoschendorf  -- Anna Maria Welz was born on 10 May 1812 in Stoschendorf, Kreis Reichenbach, now Stoszow, Poland.    Town only has 200 people in it...   Nearest "large" town is Heidersdorf (Łagiewniki).  Perhaps the records are there.  It's the seat of the area.
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=71360&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Poland%2C%20Wroc%C5%82aw%2C%20%C5%81agiewniki%20(Dzier%C5%BConi%C3%B3w)%22&subjectsOpen=704712-50

Evangelisch-Lutheran OBST's of Klein Ellguth 

1. Louise OBST born abt 1843 to Friedrich OBST and Johanna Dorothea KOSCH
• Klein Ellguth, Nimptsch - Evangelisch Church Records
2. Marie Emilie Karoline OBST, sister to Louise, born 8 Sep 1855 in Klein Ellguth
• Klein Ellguth, Nimptsch - Civil Records: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/299545?availability=Family%20History%20Library 
3. Marriage in Civil Records?!   Paul Zimmer and Emilie Obst on 19 February 1887
4. Emilie Clara OBST born 31 Jan 1863 in Breslau
• Klein Ellguth, - https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=1081075&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Germany%2C%20Preu%C3%9Fen%2C%20Schlesien%2C%20Klein%20Ellguth%22
• Oels -  https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=49447&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Germany%2C%20Preu%C3%9Fen%2C%20Schlesien%2C%20%C3%96ls%22

Lutheran OBST's of Deutsch Lissa

1. Could be Catholic records for his sister Anna and her husband Robert Kirschner? Children.  They were married in 1883. 
2. Marriage in Civil Records?!   Paul Zimmer and Emilie Obst on 19 February 1887
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=72179&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Poland%2C%20Wroc%C5%82aw%2C%20Wroc%C5%82aw-Le%C5%9Bnica%22&subjectsOpen=398002-50

MAASS of Berlin

1. Louis Philip Maass 6 May 1857 birth in Berlin https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007951777?cat=105476   (look for earlier and later siblings in https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007951778?cat=105476 and https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007538145?cat=105476 )

BRANDT of Posen

1. Death of Josephine Brandt (Dessauer) in Krotoszyn on 16-Dec-1877 
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/47847?availability=Family%20History%20Library     1201050 -   Film Image #: 615