Suetterlin

(NOTE: You'll notice that I refer to my friend Larry pretty often--he 's my online buddy who happens to be the worlds BEST researcher. He discovered the Ceskearchivy site and realized they were adding to it; he's found obscure connections I would never have looked for; he sent me FamilyTreeMaker software for my birthday AND he's a good and funny friend. Too bad he and his wife live in Georgia!)


A few weeks ago, Larry found a Suetterlin font online, and of course, we both have it on our computers now :^) One thing it's good for is helping to figure out the original handwriting in those church record books. I found that if I type what I think I see, and it's the same, then I've sorta double-checked myself, ya know?


You'll recall (no doubt!) that the first HESCH we found in the books was a Johann Hesch who married Agnes Blaschko in Cimer (Schamers) in 1839, right? Well, I didn't totally translate the record till this morning...I had the first parts pretty "right", but the witnesses had scrawled their signatures, so I just stopped there.


Turns out, there were 5-6 people in town who witnessed most of the marriages--the local storekeeper was one--evidently, because they were citizens who were in town during the day, they were called on to be witnesses.


Why does this matter? Cuz I was able to compare and cross-check their repeated signatures. Some were a LOT clearer than others written by the same person.

The original records were written across 2 ledgerbook pages, so it's below in three parts.


Grooms' info:

Brides info:

Witnesses and priest:


WAY cool, huh???