HF Ludwig Goetz Next Steps (2016) Sunday, May 15, 2016

Before I left for Salt Lake, I reviewed the info I had on my second great-grandfather, Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Goetz and family.

Pre-visit Info
Names, birth dates, parents names, sibling and origin info

Part 1:
i. Wilhelm Goetz (d. abt 1800, Geotha, Saxony, Germany?, d. after 1870, , US)
+??
Children:
a. Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Goetz (b. 1 Sep 1836 in Germany (possibly Wittemberg), d. 15 Apr 1898, Detroit/Gratiot, MI)
b. John (b. abt 1839, Germany, d.?)
c. Anna (b. 28 Oct 1843?, Baden, Germany(?), d?)

Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Goetz was known by the name Ludwig and may have immigrated to the US in 16 Sep 1858 to New York (under the name Louis Goetz). His last will and testament did not yield any new information on the family origins.

Part 2:
Father William Gates/Getz info (b. abt 1803-4, Germany, d. between 1870-80, US)
1870 US Census: lives in Gross Pointe with son (from Prussia, 67 yrs old)
1860 US Census: lives in Township of Hamtramck (age 56) with Louis b. 1836, John b. 1839 and Anna b. 1844.

Part 3:
Then searching on Johanna Caroline Christiane Dorothea, found the following in Find a Grave:
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Name Johannah Caroline Dahlinger
Birth Date 28 Oct 1843
Birth Place Baden-Baden, Baden-Badener Stadtkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Death Date 21 Jan 1926
Death Place Barr Lake, Adams County, Colorado, USA
Cemetery Riverside Cemetery

(I have a note from the Trinity Church records that Johanna Goetz married Dahlinger and moved away to Colorado and also a note to that effect from a History of Colorado ebook entry).

So, need to look at Baden-Badener Stadskreis records in the 1830-1840 range for Wilhelm Goetz with at least 3 children (??)

Thursday Search Steps

Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1832-1869 Evangelische Kirche Baden (Baden). I eagerly located the FHL intl film # 1055196 Taufen, Heiraten, Tote 1832-1869 for Baden and loaded it in the film reader. Scanned for the ancestors and their birth dates but found nothing. I had thought to look in the Wuerttemberg Emigration Index (WEI), but then the volunteer indicated that if they came from Baden, they wouldn't be found in the WEI. Wuerttemberg is separate from Baden. 

Monday Search Steps

I looked in ancestry.com again, and found the ship's record I had for a potential Louis Goetz ancestor. He arrived by himself (no parents nor siblings) on 16 Sep 1858 and the place he came from was indicated in the ship list as "Baden" (It hadn't been readable to me before). So now the question is, which Baden village is he from?

Update from 2017: Or is this the correct Goetz?

The FHL volunteer a the desk happened to be Trudy Schenk - the author of the WEI. She suggested looking up the names of the people from the passenger list to see if any towns came up for them in familysearch.org or ancestry.com (the thought being that Louis would be in line with people from his area) .... not much luck. Trudy suggested looking in the Ihringen ortssippenbuch (which I did) but there was only 1 Gotz (not anyone I could identify) and also the village of Eichstetten. The Eichstetten ortsfamilienbuch was not on the shelf. It is apparently a new item and it was still in the process of being cataloged. I left Trudy with Ludwig's information and my email address as she said she may have some other resources at home to review.

What was surprising or different from the info we had at the outset?

1. Confirmed that Ludwig was most probably from the greater district of Baden!

2. Confirmed that the 16 Sep 1858 ship's entry was probably the correct Louis Goetz.

---Refs---

1. Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1832-1869 Evangelische Kirche Baden (Baden), FHL intl film # 1055196, Taufen, Heiraten, Tote 1832-1869

2. Ortssippenbuch Ihringen am Kaiserstuhl : bis 1810, Tote teilweise bis 1850 und mit etwas 300 Militärpersonen der kaiserlichen Festung Breisach

3. Ortsfamilienbuch Eichstetten : Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl, 1644-1900

4. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, entry for Louis Goetz on ancestry.com

---- Research Notes ----

Update 5/20: Maybe look in Wuerttemberg Emigration Index? Possibly came to US in Sep 1858? or 1857/56.
No 1860 census entry found yet. 
Married in 1861.
Sister: Johanne Caroline b. 28 Oct 1843
Brother: Johann b 1839

Update 5/19: Look at LDS tape 1055196 Taufen, Heiraten, Tote 1832-1869 for Baden-Baden -- didn't see any Goetz born in the year 1843.