Hello,
I am looking for a researcher in Zwickau (or Chemitz)
who can visit the Archive and determine the parents of
my Great-Grandfather August Friedrich Feustel.
I have a copy of his Wanderbuch that "verifies" his birthdate of
19 Aug 1839 in Zwickau. Another August Friedrich Feustel
is listed on the LDS films as being born there in 1842. I am
wondering if the two are the same and either the 1842 is
for his baptism or he used the name of a deceased sibling
to begin his wandering earlier. In the 1880 census of
Ft. Wayne IN, he gives his age as 39 which implies
a birth in '42, but later he gives an age that would imply
the '39 date. Further in the LDS film, there are no births in
the David Feustel family in 1839 although there are listed
births both before and after at regular intervals of several years.
In the United States his naturalization papers say 1839.
Any helpers there or references to reputable people I might write?
Thanks.
Edward Feustel