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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Satrum, Carolyn |
| Title, Analytic | Tracing the Ernsts Back to Baden |
| Journal Title | Germanic Genealogy Journal |
| Date of Publication | Fall 2010 |
| Volume ID | 13 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 19-21, ill. |
| Language or Document Type | English |
| ISSN | 1548-3150 |
| Abstract | Beginning only with the information that her grandmother was a German speaking Roman Catholics with the maiden name of Ernst, the author begins her search. A baptismal record for the grandmother revealed that Josephine Wilhelmina Ernst had been born in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, in 1877, and that her parents were named John Ernst and Mary Theobald. It was determined that John (Johannes) Ernst emigrated in 1869 from Weitenung, Buehl, Baden, arriving on the S. S. Ohio in Baltimore. More searching discovered that John Ernst was born in Ottenhofen (less than one mile from Weitenung) in 1850. While John left Baden as a farmer, in America he became a blacksmith working for Gaar, Scott & Co. in Richmond, Indiana (a manufacturer of steam- and horse-power threshing machines and steam traction engines) and he later worked as a stone mason. "He married, fathered 11 children, weathered the deaths of five young daughters, and died at 93 years of age." |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Genealogy/ Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Ernst |