Lorenz Hopfengartner Update 2
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So I was doing a little more digging and found a Public Tree on Ancestry.com referencing a Lorenz Hopfengartner and Maria Zacker (same line as mine). But I don't have an Ancestry.com subscription. I used Ancestry Library through the military.
Ancestry Library does not provide access to the Public Tree's, so I sent out a couple of requests on Twitter and Google+ asking for help in looking at this tree.
About 30 minutes after I made the post on Google+ I got a response back from Carol Stevens giving me a suggestion and also offering to help look at the tree for me.
She responded about 10 minutes later with some information but nothing that I didn't already have in my tree. I was hoping that I might have found someone else doing research on the same branch of my family (Hopfengartner). So that turned out to be a dead end, but I was sure thankful for the quick turn around by Carol.
Second I made a post over on Ancestry.com about looking up military records for Nuremberg, Germany in 1840-1860 time frame. I also received a response on this, but at the moment it actually brought more questions then answers to this.
First off I don't have a clue what religion they are, I would have assumed that they were Catholic, but the post responder said most likely Lutheran. Next they asked which section/area of Nuremberg that my line was from. All I know is that they were from Nuremberg. I have nothing more at this time to go on.
I think I can order some microfilms from Family History Centers but it looks like a lot of them to try and figure out where my family was. Maybe there are some cemeteries over there that I might be able to narrow down my search?
Running out of my known options, besides physically going there to Germany and looking around.
Ancestry Library does not provide access to the Public Tree's, so I sent out a couple of requests on Twitter and Google+ asking for help in looking at this tree.
About 30 minutes after I made the post on Google+ I got a response back from Carol Stevens giving me a suggestion and also offering to help look at the tree for me.
She responded about 10 minutes later with some information but nothing that I didn't already have in my tree. I was hoping that I might have found someone else doing research on the same branch of my family (Hopfengartner). So that turned out to be a dead end, but I was sure thankful for the quick turn around by Carol.
Second I made a post over on Ancestry.com about looking up military records for Nuremberg, Germany in 1840-1860 time frame. I also received a response on this, but at the moment it actually brought more questions then answers to this.
First off I don't have a clue what religion they are, I would have assumed that they were Catholic, but the post responder said most likely Lutheran. Next they asked which section/area of Nuremberg that my line was from. All I know is that they were from Nuremberg. I have nothing more at this time to go on.
I think I can order some microfilms from Family History Centers but it looks like a lot of them to try and figure out where my family was. Maybe there are some cemeteries over there that I might be able to narrow down my search?
Running out of my known options, besides physically going there to Germany and looking around.
