Yesterday afternoon I spent some time at the local LDS Family History Center trying to read the microfilm for Sulzfeld. This was the home of the Uhl (Yowell), Kabler, and Zimmerman families. Only the last family has many mentions in the church books. It had been reported by Margaret James Squires that on two occasions the sponsors for Christopher Zimmerman had been Anna Barbara Fisher and Ludwig Fisher (once each). Sure enough, I did find the baptismal records with these sponsors.
I am looking for other occurrences of the Fischer name in Sulzfeld, but so far I have not found any. There are two words after the name of Ludwig Fischer, but I have not deciphered them yet. One could be “Bürger”, which would simply mean “citizen”. The next word might be the name of an occupation, or a place name, so I will want to study it carefully.
We did have a Ludwig and Anna Barbara (Blankenbaker) Fisher in Virginia, though the ones in Virginia are not old enough to be the sponsors in Sulzfeld. But, since John Zimmerman in Virginia married a Blankenbaker, and since Ludwig Fisher in Virginia married a Blankenbaker, the combination of names, especially in finding a Fischer sponsor for a Zimmerman in Sulzfeld is especially interesting.
An Ortssippenbuch for Sulzfeld is in preparation, I have heard. I could wait for this to come out, but all of this is also a part of my study of the German script.
While looking at the information (the quality of which is not good), I did spot the name Krieger several times. Andreas feels that this is not a satisfactory name for Crigler in Virginia because of the lack of the “l” in German. But I am stubborn enough to keep noting the occurrences of the Krieger name that I find.
(19 Feb 04)
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