Saturday, August 6, 2011

Worked all day on Fröbel ancestors

I worked all day entering Fröbel family members into Legacy. Johanna Sophie Dorothea Fröbel, born 7 Dec 1736 in Neuhaus Am Rennweg, a town near Schwarzburg, Thüringen, Germany, married our 5th gg father, Johann Gotthelf Greiner, on 24 Sep 1754 in Steinheid, Thüringen, Germany. They were the parents of the 5 famous Greiner brothers two of whom are our 4th gg fathers because their children, first cousins, married and are our 3rd gg parents. Johanna Sophie Dorothea Fröbel's pedigree goes back to Volckmar Frobenius (the Latin version of Fröbel) who was born in 1470 in Grosshettstedt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Thüringen, Germany. Volckmar was a Catholic priest who became a friend of Martin Luther, and in 1533 he became the first Protestant minister in Stadtilm. He married a Jewish convert in 1530 in the town of Ichtershausen. When she was baptized Martin Luther was her godparent. Amazing! We are not sure of her Jewish family name, although one source says it was Mandel. I checked on http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ and Mandel is a known Jewish name. She took the name "Christine" when she was baptized. She is our 11th great grandmother! They had at least five children, and we descend from their son Johannes Frobenius. I submitted about 60 of these people today into new.familysearch. I also put a copy of the information on:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=vassel-elmer&id=I19639

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