John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 2434

Another point of contact that Dr. Stierle in Boennigheim has had with America is with Frank Hart.  Frank, a teacher at Bluefield College in Virginia, with his wife, visited Boennigheim for several days.  He gave Dr. Stierle the work of Dorothy Ambergey and a copy of Beyond Germanna.

In these reports, I am using the following simple symbols:

is birth (born); think of the Star in the East announcing a birth;
(two lowercase “ohs”) is the union of two people, marriage;
oxo or o/o is a broken marriage;
+ denotes death; think of a cross in the graveyard;
(a box, not used above) means buried, and suggests a coffin;
(two wavy lines, one above the other, suggesting water; not used above) denotes baptism.

The marriage symbol is sometimes made by the symbol for infinity, , i.e., “a lazy eight”.

Cary suggests that he has seen deviations from these symbols, but basically these are standard.  In the Ahnentafel (table of ancestors), the father of a given individual is twice the number of the given individual.  The mother of the given individual is twice the given individual plus one.

In the last Note, I gave the family of the great-great-grandfather of Conrad Amberger.  Since Conrad was number 1, his father is 2, a grandfather in the paternal line is 4, and the great-grandfather is 8, and the great-great-grandfather is 16, both in the paternal line.

Starting #8 in this Note, he was another Simon Anberger, * 11 Dec 1579, + 25 Sep 1626, who was the son of Simon Anberger of “Grossengartach”.  The son Simon married, on 5 Apr 1608, Anna Becker, the daughter of Jacob Becker of Boennigheim.  Simon #8 was a shield bearer.  The children of Simon and Anna were:

1.  Jacob, * 14 Jan 1609, + 27 Sep 1626
2.  Barbara, * 22 Mar 1610, +6 May 1610
3.  Stoffel, * 11 May 1611, +26 Aug 1626
4.  Ursula, * 15 Dec 1612, + 25 Sep 1626
5.  Barbara, * 16 Feb 1614
6.  Simon, * 29 Jan 1616, +15 Sep 1626
7.  Hans, * 4 Sep 1617
8.  Andreas, * 14 Nov 1618, +10 Sep 1626
9.  Anna, * 15 May 1621, + 10 Sep 1626
10.  Michael, * 7 Apr 1624, + 13 May 1624
11.  A still born child, * 12 May 1626, + 12 May 1626
12.  Laurentzius, *9 Aug 1626.

Question to you.  How many died in the second half of 1626 and why?
(21 Dec 06)

We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.