Schreiber Ancestry

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Permalink Reply by Barbara Gallagher on July 13, 2012 at 12:29pm

Gene, I would take a close look at church records in Pennsylvania during that period especially if you know the faith. Ancestry.com has many of the records and you can research by the church type. Consider variant spellings. Many German immigrants who came through Philadelphia were recorded in ship manifests and it might be worth looking into other German immigrants they may have traveled with.  There are a number of German newspapers in Pennsylvania worth checking and the Pennsylvania German Society found here http://www.pgs.org/default.asp.  A good listing of other historical societies in Pennsylvania:  http://www.pennsylvaniaresearch.com/directory.html.  There were many large German settlements in eastern Pennsylvania outside Philadelphia.

Permalink Reply by Gene Fett on July 13, 2012 at 12:31pm

Thanks Barbara,  Lots of great suggestions.  Gives me lots of ideas and leads of places to check.  New challenge for me!!

Permalink Reply by Barbara Gallagher on July 13, 2012 at 2:01pm

Gene, I see a Christian Schreiber (born 1821 in Wurttemburg) and wife Catherine and 2 children living in Philadelphia in 1870. They have 2 children, one born in 1848. Could your Christian have had a son who stayed behind with a pregnant wife perhaps? He is a carpenter as is his son. Located record on Archives. com. Do you know the spouse's name for Christian?

Permalink Reply by Gene Fett on July 13, 2012 at 2:10pm

My g-g-grandfather, Christian was born in 1787.  His wife, Friedricke, was born in 1795.  All three children (Sophie, Ferdinand and Louise) show in the passenger list for their arrival in NY on 9/7/1843.