<pharmaxx@charter.net> schrieb:
I guess I am grasping at straws but even a blind squirrel sometimes finds an acorn. My reach is that Julius' name appears as J. W. Burgdorf on the Hamburg Emigration list and on the passenger list for the ship Oder. It is only on some records found in New Orleans that the full name Julius Wilhelm Burgdorf appears. I know it is a stretch to think that he changed his name from Johann to Julius and retained the Wilhelm. Even if he did I still have to find evidence that was the case.
Do you have the right birthdate of Julius Wilhelm Burgdorf ? Was ist given by a document oder did you have to count back ? And is the other Johann born or baptized the same day ? If both data aren't so close, the trace becomes colder and colder. In any case you need more hints to become sure, as for example, people from the same place on board, neighbours in the region of first settlement from the same place or family members in the wider sense, who definitely came from the place in Europe and settled with him at the same place in USA. To get last certainity will not be managed by the identical birthdate, but same birthday increases the possibility of being right by the factor 365. Not corrected errors of parishbook writers entries are documented. There is one within my anchestor entries. In this case doubts could be cleared by the marriage document which gave the date and place of birth, where he was the only born that day with just one different first name. But one should not count on too much of such errors, especially not in the 19th century.
Greetings and good luck Hans Peter Albers, Bienenbüttel