Hello!
I am a new list member.
Is anyone on this list researching the surname BRENNECKE?
If so, I would like to exchange information.
Norman
Welcome aboard Norman. You may want to provide the list a few more specifics regarding your family line, patriarch + matriarch + 1st generation siblings and approximate date of emigration. Also place (or suspected area) they emigrated from if known, and where they settled stateside. If nothing else, this will provide a rough basis of your clan in the H-L archives for further queries (and researchers who may come after). Fortunately Brennecke is not a terribly common name, so narrowing things down may not be impossible. How far along are you in your research on the family?
Jb
Thank you for the reply Jb,
I fully understand your point. It is generally useful to provide more information with an inquiry. However, I felt it would be a waste of time and space except for those researching the name Brennecke. I certainly will provide much more information to those who are identified as interested.
They are from Sebexen in the Harz and emigrated to USA in 1844. I have quite a bit of information, but I am missing some things such as the emigration request and related people in Germany.
Norman
Understood. A chip off the old block. 
Happy hunting Norm. Jb
Hiyas,
Is my thinking that is doesn't hurt to post what you know.
Here is my reason why...
Many people might delete your post as they are not interested.
However...
One day..someone might discover possible laterals that just might be a clue for you and yours.
I could be mistaken here but I think maybe what we write will last in cyberspace forever and ever..
So even if not fruitful for you...might be fruitful for your descendents.
For myself...I would want my future descendents to stumble on that little obscure clue that just might create a little interest in family research.
Shake hands with your loved ones ancestoral loved ones.
Barbie-Lew
P.S. Yes I know sounds cheesey.
Hello Norman,
In the Netherlands is a family Brendeke ; I know they came too from Germany and the original name was Brennecke
In Holland gibt es Brendeke , herkommend aus Deutschland
Gruss / greeting
Albert
Bep & Albert Veldhuis-Hoeve
I hope someone can help me with this information.
Johann August Friedrich BRENNECKE is my great-great-grandfather, born 5 November 1801, in Sebexen im Harz. They were Lutherans who attended St. Martin's church there. He and his wife and six children emigrated from Bremen to New Orleans, USA on the Bark Diana. They arrived 11 November 1844. They traveled up the MIssissippi by boat and settled on farmland near Jackson, Missouri.
I would appreciate any help in finding their immigration request document or his birth record in Hannover. Any suggestions?
I have reason to believe they were related to Brenneckes in the nearby towns of Klein Rhüden and Bad Gandersheim. *Can anyone confirm that or help me connect to Brenneckes from those towns?*
Thank you for your interest.
Norman
Hi Norm,
I can't find your Johann Brennecke in the Hannover emigration
archives. I'm not sure that they have records online before 1850.
You might look at this site:
http://meta.genealogy.net/metasuche/index.jsp
Just put in the name of Brennecke and you'll find a few from the same
area as your family. Some of them lead to an email to other researchers.
Look at this website, too. http://geneanet.org/
You probably have seen this: http://www.brenneckes.homestead.com/
Maybe it's your work! Somebody is VERY organized.
Sorry I can't be of more help. I presume you've looked at all the
LDS offerings.
Barbara
Hi, Barbara. That was helpful.
I thought maybe Niedersachsen has state archives like in Bavaria where some permission-to-emigrate documents are stored and indexed, or is that where you already looked?
Yes, I am one of the collaborators of http://www.brenneckes.homestead.com/ .
I am trying your other suggestions.
I am not a usual user of http://meta.genealogy.net/metasuche/index.jsp . I got zero results there just now.
Thanks again,
Norm
Hi Norm,
I just checked the metasuche site and I found 71 hits for Brennecke.
Granted, most of them were from other areas than your family. However,
there is some that included the Harz region.
I will send you the address privately and some explanation of the
emigration archives in Niedersachsen. It's a long page and I don't want to
post it on the list over and over!
Barbara
Norm,
If the Bavaria emigration records are available online, could you
please send me the address?
Thanks,
Barbara
Thanks, Barbara. That's a big help.
Norm
We should always keep in mind that our immigrant or his parents
may have left the real or major "family seat" for a better economic
opportunity through an apprenticeship or through a marriage that
offered him the opportunity to inherit a farm or business.
Our ancestors did not all stay in the same village forever and ever!
If you come upon a blank wall going back in the records of one parish,
look around. See what you can find in the filmed records of the other
parishes nearby. And if they lived near a river or train tracks, one or
more siblings may have moved quite a distance away from the major
family location in that way ---- but still be part of that family.
Maureen
I guess all that moving around is
the reason why we all don't have
two left feet and two right arms, huh?
Maureen
Hiyas,
Is my thinking that the first best place to search for connections is the village, city, township, county...area you are certain your nearest relatives lived...your grandparents or better yet..your great grandparents..those who were born/emmigrated in the 19th century....Get to know the neighbors, sacramental sponsers, siblings, family friends....on ship arrivals take a look at entire list of passengers..not just your own direct.....
Our ancestors lived in the era prior to birth-control...though antibiotics were non-existant many of our ancestors had siblings..and those siblings married and were fruitful... and before automobiles were popular..many married into families that lived nearby.
In my U.S. research and is probobly a stuck-point for me..because if I am correct in my searching.. Majority of positively known relatives have had local roots....
Is most interesting to me finding "outlaws"... which is my term for persons related to my "inlaws"...cousins, great aunts, great uncles..cousins-cousins...
It is a small world I think.
Barbie-Lew
Sure they did move around... Certainly they did.
I guess all that moving around is
the reason why we all don't have
two left feet and two right arms, huh?
Maureen