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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Kline, Dick |
| Title, Analytic | Genealogy of a Fraktur Confirmation Letter |
| Journal Title | Germanic Genealogy Journal |
| Date of Publication | Summer 2012 |
| Volume ID | 15 |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 18-20, ill. |
| ISSN | 1548-3150 |
| Abstract | Tucked into the pages of an old book in my parents' attic was a beautiful 4 by 6 inch fraktur with nine lines of calligraphy and a hand-painted scene with flowering bushes, a cherub, and young girl. The fraktur document was created by Ursula Ebner to memorialize the 1849 confirmation of her goddaughter Maria Koelle in Wuerttemberg. The author's research discovered that Maria Koelle immigrated from Laichingen, Wuerttemberg, to America in 1854 at age 19, travelling with her mother, sister, brother, and a young man names George Mangold, who later became Maria's husband. The family's father awaited them in Coventry, New York, where he had been employed as a laborer since arriving in 1852. The surname was changed to Kelley, and Maria's sister Anna Kelley married the author's great-grandfather, Martin Seeley, in 1865. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Family history/ Genealogy/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania/ Fraktur art -- Pennsylvania -- Pennsylvania Dutch Country |