Re: FUHRMAN of Bachman Valley Carroll County
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Re: FUHRMAN of Bachman Valley Carroll County
Stacey Widener 4/06/04
Hi Stacey,
If you are new, then welcome to the wonderful world of partial family lists! Many of us who try to find extended descendancies depend on, for instance, the census for finding the children in a certain family. If we find the family in the 1870 census with four children, we list them. It is possible that several more children are born after that, but we are not able to find them in the subsequent census for some reason. Also, especially in the Pennsylvania Dutch families sometimes kids go to live with relatives. My own grandmother spent most of her life in her grandparents' house even though her own parents were living. So she would not have been found in the "correct" family in the census and might have been left off by somebody who did not know the situation.
The very best thing you can do is list (on this forum, for instance) all the information you have on your branch of the family. You realize that you are in a better position than other people to know the facts of your particular line. In fact, if nobody from your line has been interested in genealogy up to now, it's possible NOBODY else knows what you know! Each of us brings some new information into the mix.
Also, another great thing you can do is add to the information available on the net. For instance, if you know something about the Fuhrman burials at the Black Rock Church of the Brethren, it would be great if you listed them. Somebody else offered to do that once but did not follow through.
There are some well-documented Fuhrman lines and others are kind of lost. Then there are the name variations - in one of my family's cemeteries most of them are spelled Fourhman! Those odd spellings tend to get lost. Beginning genealogists tend to get hung up on the "exactly correct" spelling of their family names - but after you have logged hundreds of hours reading census and other microfilm you will see how whimsical and inconsistent spelling is, even by family members. Grimm becomes Grim and vice versa. People listed by their "first" name in one record are listed by a middle name or a nickname in the next. Government workers (from census to the courts) mangle names incredibly. When you realize what thick, incomprehensive accents some of our Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors had, it's not surprising!
Let me urge you to post the information you have and then those of us who have been toiling in the field of Fuhrmans can try to help you. And by all means, the very very first thing to do is pick the brains of anybody in your family line who might have any information at all. Their memories are irreplaceable once they are gone.
Good luck, and write again!
Jane
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Re: FUHRMAN of Bachman Valley Carroll County
Stacey Widener 4/07/04
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Re: FUHRMAN of Bachman Valley Carroll County
Jane Peppler 4/07/04
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Re: FUHRMAN of Bachman Valley Carroll County
Stacey Widener 4/07/04
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Re: FUHRMAN of Bachman Valley Carroll County
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Re: FUHRMAN of Bachman Valley Carroll County
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Re: FUHRMAN of Bachman Valley Carroll County
Stacey Widener 4/06/04