Can anyone help me track down this fellow's death date in (presumably)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin? I'm trying to determine whether he's my great-
greandmother's brother and a death certificate could help me verify his
parents' names and origins. Available details (age, emigration date,
family names) suggest a possible link worth pursuing.
Peter Petersen (sometimes indexed as -son), born in June 1862 (give or
take a year) in Denmark/Germany (depending on the census year), wife Emma
nee Hoffman (May 1866), born in Wisconsin. Couple married about 1882 and
had children Peter, Margarethe, Maria, Andrew, Emma, Clara, Walter, twins
Luisa and [possible reading] Laura or Leana.
Peter is a railway weighmaster; his father Peter Sr. lived with the
family at least to 1890, according to local address list for that year.
It would help to have Peter Sr.'s death date as well but that may be
asking too much.
Family shows up in 1900, 1910 and 1930 federal census in Milwaukee WI but
I can't locate other documents for Peter (i.e. marriage, death). Am I
missing something obvious?
By the way, I'd like to publicly thank everyone here in alt.genealogy for
your help through the year; some of you I've thanked personally. This
newsgroups has been a wonderful resource and I'm very grateful to you
all.
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saki@ucla.edu
Peter Petersen, Milwaukee, 1900-30
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Bill Gatchell
Re: Peter Petersen, Milwaukee, 1900-30
You said you couldn't find your ancestor in other vital records. Have
you examined the county marriage records? As the surname is varying by
spelling, I'd want to look at the records myself and not put much in
the indexes. You have a target year of marriage so checking that year
first and then 5 up and 5 down would be my strategy. A quick check
with http://www.familysearch.org family history catalog shows the records have
been filmed:
Marriage records, 1838-1911 : index, 1838-1918 Index to husbands M-Z
1838-1895 Film number: 1013950
Milwaukee County (Wisconsin). Register of Deeds (This information is
assuming the family lived in the Milwaukee area when they were
married.)
Have you used microfilm records thru your local Family History Library
before? It can be a great way of reviewing the original records at a
very small costs. This one film rental will costs you $3.25 usually.
Good luck
Bill
San Antonio, TX
saki wrote:
you examined the county marriage records? As the surname is varying by
spelling, I'd want to look at the records myself and not put much in
the indexes. You have a target year of marriage so checking that year
first and then 5 up and 5 down would be my strategy. A quick check
with http://www.familysearch.org family history catalog shows the records have
been filmed:
Marriage records, 1838-1911 : index, 1838-1918 Index to husbands M-Z
1838-1895 Film number: 1013950
Milwaukee County (Wisconsin). Register of Deeds (This information is
assuming the family lived in the Milwaukee area when they were
married.)
Have you used microfilm records thru your local Family History Library
before? It can be a great way of reviewing the original records at a
very small costs. This one film rental will costs you $3.25 usually.
Good luck
Bill
San Antonio, TX
saki wrote:
Can anyone help me track down this fellow's death date in
(presumably)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin? I'm trying to determine whether he's my great-
greandmother's brother and a death certificate could help me verify
his
parents' names and origins. Available details (age, emigration date,
family names) suggest a possible link worth pursuing.
Peter Petersen (sometimes indexed as -son), born in June 1862 (give
or
take a year) in Denmark/Germany (depending on the census year), wife
Emma
nee Hoffman (May 1866), born in Wisconsin. Couple married about 1882
and
had children Peter, Margarethe, Maria, Andrew, Emma, Clara, Walter,
twins
Luisa and [possible reading] Laura or Leana.
Peter is a railway weighmaster; his father Peter Sr. lived with the
family at least to 1890, according to local address list for that
year.
It would help to have Peter Sr.'s death date as well but that may be
asking too much.
Family shows up in 1900, 1910 and 1930 federal census in Milwaukee WI
but
I can't locate other documents for Peter (i.e. marriage, death). Am I
missing something obvious?
By the way, I'd like to publicly thank everyone here in alt.genealogy
for
your help through the year; some of you I've thanked personally. This
newsgroups has been a wonderful resource and I'm very grateful to you
all.
----
saki@ucla.edu
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saki
Re: Peter Petersen, Milwaukee, 1900-30
"Bill Gatchell" <gatchell99@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1103844461.688510.55280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
Thanks for this suggestion; I keep forgetting to check an obvious resource
(and I'm within a mile of a FHL too).
I'm assuming the marriage took place in Wisconsin. If this is my great-
grandmother's brother Peter, the whole family (parents included) emigrated
to the U.S. in 1878 and went to Nebraska first for my great-grandmother's
wedding a few weeks later. A cousin places Peter in Milwaukee with his own
family later.
Since Peter's wife was from Wisconsin my guess is that he relocated there
and met her c. 1880 rather than assuming they met in Nebraska and returned
to her home state. Can't rule out any possibility though.
Yes, I have a couple films on order there now. I'll head back after their
holiday break and see what I can find, thanks!
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saki@ucla.edu
news:1103844461.688510.55280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
A quick check
with http://www.familysearch.org family history catalog shows the records have
been filmed:
Marriage records, 1838-1911 : index, 1838-1918 Index to husbands M-Z
1838-1895 Film number: 1013950
Milwaukee County (Wisconsin). Register of Deeds (This information is
assuming the family lived in the Milwaukee area when they were
married.)
Thanks for this suggestion; I keep forgetting to check an obvious resource
(and I'm within a mile of a FHL too).
I'm assuming the marriage took place in Wisconsin. If this is my great-
grandmother's brother Peter, the whole family (parents included) emigrated
to the U.S. in 1878 and went to Nebraska first for my great-grandmother's
wedding a few weeks later. A cousin places Peter in Milwaukee with his own
family later.
Since Peter's wife was from Wisconsin my guess is that he relocated there
and met her c. 1880 rather than assuming they met in Nebraska and returned
to her home state. Can't rule out any possibility though.
Have you used microfilm records thru your local Family History Library
before? It can be a great way of reviewing the original records at a
very small costs. This one film rental will costs you $3.25 usually.
Yes, I have a couple films on order there now. I'll head back after their
holiday break and see what I can find, thanks!
----
saki@ucla.edu
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Jakob Hoffmann
Re: Peter Petersen, Milwaukee, 1900-30
Hi,
You might be able to find them emigrated from Denmark - Peter Petersen
sounds more Danish than German.
This is the Danish Emigration Archives
http://www.emiarch.dk/search.php3?l=en, where you can search for people who
emigrated from Denmark between 1868 and 1908.
Jake
You might be able to find them emigrated from Denmark - Peter Petersen
sounds more Danish than German.
This is the Danish Emigration Archives
http://www.emiarch.dk/search.php3?l=en, where you can search for people who
emigrated from Denmark between 1868 and 1908.
Jake
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saki
Re: Peter Petersen, Milwaukee, 1900-30
"Jakob Hoffmann" <alijakob@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
news:41cd2d2f$0$15202$edfadb0f@dread14.news.tele.dk:
Thanks very much!
I'm told the family debated endlessly whether they were Danish or German,
with a variety of different opinions. They were from Tondern and/or Leck.
I have the family's passenger lists from both Hamburg to Liverpool, and
Liverpool to NY so I know when they left Leck and when they arrived in the
U.S (November 1878).
My great-grandmother Catharina Petersen married Hans Petersen that same
month in Nebraska. Hans had already emigrated in 1872. They're easy to
trace as they flourish in Nebraska, Illinois and Wisconsin. Her brothers
are more problematical, and her parents (Peter Hansen Petersen and his wife
Elise), who came over with the family, disappear without a trace, as far as
I can tell.
She had an older brother Peter, born about 1860; and twin brothers Louis
(Ludwig) and Andreas, born around 1868. I think I've found Peter in
Milwaukee but I'd like to find something besides census information so it
would be easier to verify that he's related. I can't locate Louis or
Andreas with any certainty, though I have a family photo of Louis as a
young man in Omaha so he must have survived at least to adulthood.
The Milwaukee Peter that I've found has a wife called Emma and nine
children whose names reflect expected family names, and he works on the
railroad, which family members recalled was his profession. But his age is
off by a year or two and he consistently reports his emigration year as
1880, not 1878 (of course my great-grandmother reported it as 1880
occasionally too...).
So I'm looking for documents external to the census to verify whether he's
really her brother or not.
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saki@ucla.edu
news:41cd2d2f$0$15202$edfadb0f@dread14.news.tele.dk:
Hi,
You might be able to find them emigrated from Denmark - Peter Petersen
sounds more Danish than German.
This is the Danish Emigration Archives
http://www.emiarch.dk/search.php3?l=en, where you can search for
people who emigrated from Denmark between 1868 and 1908.
Thanks very much!
I'm told the family debated endlessly whether they were Danish or German,
with a variety of different opinions. They were from Tondern and/or Leck.
I have the family's passenger lists from both Hamburg to Liverpool, and
Liverpool to NY so I know when they left Leck and when they arrived in the
U.S (November 1878).
My great-grandmother Catharina Petersen married Hans Petersen that same
month in Nebraska. Hans had already emigrated in 1872. They're easy to
trace as they flourish in Nebraska, Illinois and Wisconsin. Her brothers
are more problematical, and her parents (Peter Hansen Petersen and his wife
Elise), who came over with the family, disappear without a trace, as far as
I can tell.
She had an older brother Peter, born about 1860; and twin brothers Louis
(Ludwig) and Andreas, born around 1868. I think I've found Peter in
Milwaukee but I'd like to find something besides census information so it
would be easier to verify that he's related. I can't locate Louis or
Andreas with any certainty, though I have a family photo of Louis as a
young man in Omaha so he must have survived at least to adulthood.
The Milwaukee Peter that I've found has a wife called Emma and nine
children whose names reflect expected family names, and he works on the
railroad, which family members recalled was his profession. But his age is
off by a year or two and he consistently reports his emigration year as
1880, not 1878 (of course my great-grandmother reported it as 1880
occasionally too...).
So I'm looking for documents external to the census to verify whether he's
really her brother or not.
----
saki@ucla.edu