Eter

hannover-l
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Thanks to Gale, John and Hans for your answer to my message.

Hans, it is very probable that the name that I look for is Eter, because in
all the papers that I have, death, cemetery and birth of the children,
appear thus writing.

I made a search in the "family search" website and I found people with that
name, emigrants of Germany, been born more or less in those dates, and
although I did not find enything that was related to my ggmother, I found
some "Eter" born in Hannover.

In my documents the only mention is that she was from Germany, but my
grandfather told me that she was from Hannover. I know that her husband, was
from Oldenburg, maybe she was from the same region. I don't know how to
proceed. The information that I have from Peru is the only one, and now I
live in Spain.

Thanks to all of you for your help, and I will tell you more if I discover
something new.

Pedro

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Pedro, for all it is worth, your story is as common as any on the list, and indeed, anywhere "bridges across the water" are being sought. So don't lose heart. The fact that you have already done a lot of preliminary work (evidenced by the papers you have gathered to date) shows you are on the right track. It will now only be a matter of time - and effort.

Don't forget to check any emigration/immigration related resources as may be available on your end - census records, passenger lists, citizen papers and licenses, naturalization documents [Declaration of Intention, Petition for Naturalization, Finalization Papers (granting citizenship) per US standards], and also any parish records that may be available locally.

Unfortunately I have no idea how many of these types of records resources are available for your area. It can never hurt to check though, since so much predicates around discovering that elusive village or town back in Germany, and you never know where that tiny reference will reveal itself. Perhaps even in an old letter one of the extended family members holds.

You may also want to join a message board like Rootsweb Peru, if you haven't already, which may help pinpointing various record resources. That can be found along with many other resources on Cindy's List. The Germans of South America get lumped in under the larger "Hispanic" umbrella there, so you have a bit of extra stuff to go through, but oh well. Make sure to comb through the LDS Family Search website methodically to boot. That place alone is a goldmine.

Cindy's List: Hispanic, Central & South America, & the West Indies

Good luck. Jb

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Dear Pedro,

I also noticed the surname Eter at Family Search. On a whim I tried Steven Morse easy castlegarden site search...What I noticed was the ship Richard Alsop for August 27, 1852.

Though there isn't anyone that matches your search there are persons with surname Elert, Winter and Lider....departure Antwerp on that ship.

Now the actual thought that first came to my head was that there is a PERU, Illinois..though Illinois is always stuck to my brain..:slight_smile: I think aslo area in New York USA called PERU.

Now this thought came to my head because for some reason the surnames Luder and Winter seem familiar to me..but of course there are probobly thousands of people with the names Luder and Winter.

Here is not intelligent question.

How is surname Eter correctly pronouced? Is the E a long or short sound?

Barbie-Lew

P.S. What city in PERU did you ancestor die?

Thanks to Gale, John and Hans for your answer to my message.

Hans, it is very probable that the name that I look for is Eter, because in
all the papers that I have, death, cemetery and birth of the children,
appear thus writing.

I made a search in the "family search" website and I found people with that
name, emigrants of Germany, been born more or less in those dates, and
although I did not find enything that was related to my ggmother, I found
some "Eter" born in Hannover.

In my documents the only mention is that she was from Germany, but my
grandfather told me that she was from Hannover. I know that her husband, was
from Oldenburg, maybe she was from the same region. I don't know how to
proceed. The information that I have from Peru is the only one, and now I
live in Spain.

Thanks to all of you for your help, and I will tell you more if I discover
something new.

Pedro

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Could the name be Eßer (Esser), this name is listed mainly in Westphalica.
Eßer looks like Eter.

Werner