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From: Neal O. Wayman <nwayman(a)custom.net>
To: INJACKSO-L(a)rootsweb.com <INJACKSO-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Sunday, December 19, 1999 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [INJACKSO] Jackson Co. records
I have had a similiar to a post about missing ancestors. I have found many
records of him through LDS from Duchhausen church records. However, my
ancestor Ignaz Schrenk became invisible after that for a time. If his name
was transcribed as "Schronk," he came through New York City in 1853. If his
name was Ignaze "Schrauter," he and Mary Human Speck had their first child
baptized in 1856. If his name was Ingranots Schrienck, he was Nationalized
in the same place in 1862. If his name was Ignace Schrenk, he had 5 other
children baptized in that same church and appears on the Jennings County
Censuses of 1860, 70 and 80. There is no marriage cert. to be found. If he
is "Nathaniel" Schrenk, he had a daughter 'visit' him from Germany in
1882
and die in Jackson County, Indiana. If he was Nathanial, he was buried
beside Mary Human Speck Schrenk in the St. Ambrose Cememtery.... as
Ignatius! I strongly suspect, all his vital documents were inherited by a
daughter, who became lost in another's genealogy and all these records have
been lost, perhaps forever. I know about brick walls. I suppose some simply
may not be circumnavigated. And, we many NEVER know why my Ggrandfather
changed the spelling of Schrenk to Schrink. No one else in his family did.
The past is history, the future mystery and today is a present. My future
generations will not have as many brickwalls as this generation has.