Rebentisch from Tannenberg in Grand Rapids

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Christian Ehregott Rebentisch

Born: June 20, 1819 in Tannenberg (Annaberg), Saxony, Germany.

Died: May 3, 1906 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

Kris,

while I don't have anything on the Rebentisch family, I'm always interested in German emigrants who settled in Grand Rapids. There was Dr. Wenzel Blumrich, a medical doctor from the region in Northern Bohemia where my mother's family came from. Blumrich settled in Grand Rapids around 1849, and many Germans from his town and surrounding villages followed him. I'm not sure whether I'm related to any of them, but I might well be.

Anyway, Annaberg in the west of Saxony seems too far off for there to be a connection. Rebentischs and emigrants from Northern Bohemia however are bound to have met in the then not too big town of Grand Rapids; maybe being employed in Adolf Leutelt's machine factory.

It is an
abbreviated list with attention to only my direct family line.

Do you have some sidelines as well? Anybody called Blumrich, Herkner, Keil, Leutelt, Plischke, Schindler, Schinkmann, Schitky, Scholz, Seibt, Siebeneicher, Tandler, Vielkind, Woerfel, Worm?

By the way: German telephon directory lists some dozen Rebentisch families in the Annaberg region, four of them in Tannenberg.

Frank Horn, Frankfurt am Main

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Thank you for your e-mail. I do not have any information concerning the
names you have listed in your previous e-mail concerning people living in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Below is more information concerning the Rebentisch
line that came from Christian Ehregott Rebentisch and mostly, settled in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. I hope this helps some.

I would like to see how far back the Rebentisch line extends before
Christian Ehregott. You mentioned that a dozen or so Rebentisch names are
listed in the Saxony phone book under Annaberg etc. How would I contact
them especially since I do not know German or who would I contact in that
region of Germany to research the Rebentisch name?

Thank you for your help.
Kris Rebentisch Seward, Nebraska

Children of Christian Ehregott Rebentisch and Eleanore Ulman

Amanda Rebentisch: married August Fischer in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1868
and had two children, Otto and Bertha, both were born in Grand Rapids.
Another son, Albert, was born in Grand Rapids November 7, 1871 but died on
December 18, 1879. For some reason, a third son was born in Niederzwonitz,
Saxony, Germany, between the years 1874-1876. I have not record of his name
or where he lived. He could have been born as an illegitimate child a far as
I know.

   - Daughter Bertha, born July 22, 1879, married in Los Angles, California
   in 1906 to Judson Parley Howlett who came originally from Grand
Rapids. They
   had three children all girls, the first was born in Los Angles and the
   others were born in St. John's , Oregon (which is now a part of Portland,
   Oregon.)
   - Son, Otto: he, as of 1965 lived in Los Angles California.

Carl Reinhard Emil Rebentisch, born April 8, 1854 in Tannenberg, Saxony,
Germany and died January 11, 1907 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

He married Rebecca Catherine Mueller in 1884.

He worked at the Loetgert Dry Goods stsore on 18 Canal street, Grand Rapids,
Michigan before 1890/

Children all were born in Grand Rapids, Michigan: Emily Rebecca born: June
28, 1885; Hugo Erhegott born: July 25, 1887; Alma Eleanore born: June 12,
1889; Frederick Bernhard born: December 9, 1891; Bernhardt Louis born: May
18, 1896.

Ludwig Rebentisch: born 1857 in Cannonsburg, Saxony, Germany. Died October
17, 1935.

He married Rosa Hilzinger, who seems to have been his second wife. They
married in Grand Rapids, Michigan, date unknown.

In addition to his children Mary, Paul, Ernest and Johanna from Rosa, Ludwig
had a son named Frank Rebentisch from his first marriage. I do not know
when or where he first got married.

Ludwig owned a hardware store on Fulton St. W. in 1896 in Grand Rapids.

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Kris Rebentisch wrote:

Frank,

Thank you for your e-mail. I do not have any information concerning
the names you have listed in your previous e-mail concerning people
living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Below is more information
concerning the Rebentisch line that came from Christian Ehregott
Rebentisch and mostly, settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I hope
this helps some.

Kris, I think that you are new to researching your family history. If
so, get some books on researching your family from your local library
system, including ones on German research and Internet genealogy. Find
your nearest FHC by going to
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="family+history+Centers"&btnG=Google+Search

Do a Place Search in the FHL Catalogue for Annaberg which appears to be
the correct name of the place your ancestors came from. Find what
religion they were in MI and look for church records and get the films
through an FHC.

Search the rootsweb archives for body contains Rebentisch and follow up
on th posters.

The information you have on Christian and Carl is from a submitted IGI
record. While the date may be legitimate the town is wrong. I would give
this record a 1 on a 0-3 surety scale.

I would like to see how far back the Rebentisch line extends before
Christian Ehregott. You mentioned that a dozen or so Rebentisch
names are listed in the Saxony phone book under Annaberg etc. How
would I contact them especially since I do not know German or who
would I contact in that region of Germany to research the Rebentisch
name?

The chances that anyone you contact through the telephone book being
interested i their family history are slim. And you can do a lot of
research in records available here in the USA.

I do not find any Rebentisch in the 1880 Census on Family Search.org.

bob gillis

Thank you for your help. Kris Rebentisch Seward, Nebraska

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Thank you for your reply. Yes, I am a rookie at this work. Your pointers
are valuable. I do have a question or two, in your e-mail you said that my
research came from an IGI source. What is IGI? If the reliablilty of my
source is only a "1" is it worth using any longer?

I have visited the FHL online source and found Christian E. Rebentisch with
the correct birth and death dates. This source did not tell me who his
parents were or any other siblings etc. I have located a FHL in Lincoln,
Nebraska in which I will get to soon to do what you suggested in your
e-mail. I also found a FHL in Annaberg, Saxony, Germany that might have
more information in it. But, I have no way of getting there and I do not
speak or read German.

Again, thank you for your pointers.
Kris Rebentisch

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Kris Rebentisch wrote:

Bob,

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I am a rookie at this work. Your
pointers are valuable. I do have a question or two, in your e-mail
you said that my research came from an IGI source. What is IGI? If
the reliablilty of my source is only a "1" is it worth using any
longer?

The IGI is the International Genealogical Index. It is a listing of
Births and marriages that have been submitted to the Latter Day Saints
Church for Church Ordnances. Any recent basic book on genealogy will
explain the three data bases, AF, IGI and PRF, on FamilySearch.

The information in the IGI except information extracted from r original
records is not checked by the LDS Church.

Many of the Ancestral File, IGI and PRF entries have just a year, a
guesstimate by the submitter and a place also a guesstimate, Without
any source information it is very difficult to rate the accuracy.

If an entry has just the year and a place I rate it as 0

In the case of Christina R, a full date and an incorrect town leads
me to think the the submitter may have looked at a record.

I have visited the FHL online source and found Christian E.
Rebentisch with the correct birth and death dates. This source did
not tell me who his parents were or any other siblings etc.

how do you know that the dates are correct especially the birth date?
What is your source for the information.

I have located a FHL in Lincoln, Nebraska in which I will get to soon
to do what you suggested in your e-mail. I also found a FHL in
Annaberg, Saxony, Germany that might have more information in it.

The FHC in Annaburg may have some information from the FHL on permanent
loan and may have some other records or books that patrons have given
to the Center. However you can get all the FHL material through your
local FHC.

But, I have no way of getting there and I do not speak or read
German.

You will have to learn a little German to read the church records. but
any book on German research should give you enough to to get a lot of
information. And there is a book on older German writing.

bob gillis