Dear Werner and List members,
I apologize for not being able to communicate in German.
Werner, thank you for providing the link to your research website. I was surprised and happy to find you have a database file for surname Behnke. My mother is a Behnke, descended from Christian Behnke b. 1818 in Sittnow to Christian Behnke and Anna Marie Zielke. (Christian’s son Gustav, born in Lilienhecke, immigrated to Chicago, Illinois around 1880.)
I am hoping that someone on the list who knows both English and German might take a look at the table at this link:
http://www.famfo-w-schwarz.de/behnke.html
and provide me translations of the column headings. In addition, if there is a “key” somewhere to what some of the numbers mean, that would also help me. In general, if anyone has any tips about how to interpret the data, I would appreciate hearing from you. Although some of the data is from church books I have already researched, some of it is new to me, and I want to make sure I interpret it correctly.
Thank you very much.
Anne Louise Yard
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.