A Most Unusual Discovery
by Joanne Krieger
Genealogy, what a wonderful hobby! Through the years, each discovery has added to my research. I was so excited to have my Dad’s paternal line Grün (Green) and his maternal line Trüber (Treber) back to the settlement of Norka, Russia.
However, my latest discovery has been something I never imagined would ever happen. I mailed the information from the top of the Grün Pleve chart, researched and compiled by Dr. Pleve in Saratov, Russia, to a lady in Germany. With that information, she was able to find the village where the Grün settlers were born. Forty church records consisting of birth, baptismal, marriage, death and burial were included. These records sometimes also described their occupation and position in the church. It took me a long time to study and organize all this wonderful information going back to 1667 for both husband and wife.
One day as I was looking at the baptismal record of the first child of Johann Caspar and Gertrude Elisabeth Grün, I noticed a Trüber baby born 5 Aug 1764, exactly one week before the Grün baby! I checked my Trüber chart from Russia and discovered that the parents on the chart were the same as those documented in the church book from Germany. So now, thanks to the lady in Germany, I have the Trüber lineage back into Germany also. I guess the only way to top this most unusual event would have been if both babies were born and baptized on the same day instead of one week apart!
The German villages are Wolf and Dudenrod which were located a short distance NW of Büdingen. Why two villages? The earliest records are from Wolf. The father of Johann Caspar Grün was a master tailor in Wolf, also had a major part in building the church (Kirchenbaumeister). When Johann Caspar Grün married, he moved to Dudenrod where he became the master tailor, a trade he learned from his father.
Another interesting discovery: the baby was always named after the godparents, a tradition brought to Norka by the immigrants from Germany.
However, my latest discovery has been something I never imagined would ever happen. I mailed the information from the top of the Grün Pleve chart, researched and compiled by Dr. Pleve in Saratov, Russia, to a lady in Germany. With that information, she was able to find the village where the Grün settlers were born. Forty church records consisting of birth, baptismal, marriage, death and burial were included. These records sometimes also described their occupation and position in the church. It took me a long time to study and organize all this wonderful information going back to 1667 for both husband and wife.
One day as I was looking at the baptismal record of the first child of Johann Caspar and Gertrude Elisabeth Grün, I noticed a Trüber baby born 5 Aug 1764, exactly one week before the Grün baby! I checked my Trüber chart from Russia and discovered that the parents on the chart were the same as those documented in the church book from Germany. So now, thanks to the lady in Germany, I have the Trüber lineage back into Germany also. I guess the only way to top this most unusual event would have been if both babies were born and baptized on the same day instead of one week apart!
The German villages are Wolf and Dudenrod which were located a short distance NW of Büdingen. Why two villages? The earliest records are from Wolf. The father of Johann Caspar Grün was a master tailor in Wolf, also had a major part in building the church (Kirchenbaumeister). When Johann Caspar Grün married, he moved to Dudenrod where he became the master tailor, a trade he learned from his father.
Another interesting discovery: the baby was always named after the godparents, a tradition brought to Norka by the immigrants from Germany.
Source
Written by Joanne Krieger (née Green), Portland, Oregon, 2009 and used with her permission.
Last updated April 21, 2016.
