MRUA
Posted by David | Filed under Germany, Schoknecht, genealogy
For Randy’s lastest Saturday Night Genealogy Fun:
My “Most Recent Unknown Ancestors” (MRUA) would be the parents of #35 Sophia Maria Friederike Johanna SCHOKNECHT, #70 and #71. The problem I’ve run into is that American records are not specific enough about when or where she was born. I can narrow her origin to an area of several towns in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, but without having an exact DOB there were too many SCHOKNECHT girls with similar names* born in that area when Lutheran church records from the 1830s were reviewed.
It’s been a while since I last worked this branch and it’s not one that’s on my radar for the near future, but it would be relatively easy to check or recheck a few sources to see if I missed a clue, perhaps a notation written in German that I neglected to translate.
I don’t believe there are any online resources to help in this case.
* Her name varies from record to record, so that doesn’t help the situation.
