A Brick Wall Revisited

            I have a few brick walls of determining my 3x paternal great-grandparents.

I’ve broken one of those brick walls and talked about it in A Breakthrough Moment from earlier this year.  The one I’m currently working on I talked about in A Theory in Progress.

Have I made any progress . . . not really.  There is a family tree that indicates that the name I’m looking for is Christoff Wilhelm Georg Reisner, wife is Maria Christiana.  Hmmm . . . they have a document that may be of assistance – a burial record for Maria Christiana.  Now, to translate it from German.

 

Source:  Ancestry 

Source Citation

Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt; Magdeburg, Deutschland; Lutherische Kirchenbücher, 1760-1890; Film Number: 1335145

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Saxony, Anhalt, Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Dessau and Anhalt-Köthen, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1760-1890 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

Original data: Lutherische Kirchenbücher, 1760-1890. Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Magdeburg, Deutschland.

 

Nope . . . that doesn’t work.  It indicates she was born in 1814 and died in 1874 at age 60.  No way could she be the mother of my immigrant.  Well . . . let’s continue using DNA to break that wall.  And pray that the church records in Bavaria will be digitized.