Only dob information I have is various year estimates from census, how to get specifics?
Gggrandfather, Peter Routh (Rauth) born in Hesse Darmstadt Germany. 1845-1849 is best calculations.
Ggrandmother Marie Barbara Kern, born in Baden, Germany. 1845-1848 is best calculations.
Unsure if married in Germany or in US. Beginning in 1875, I have census information and so forth, but without specific dob information on the two, I cannot go back further.
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To find their exact birth date and trace the family back another generation, you will need to find their baptism records in Germany. But the information you have right now is not sufficient: even if you by chance stumbled across an entry that was consistent with what you know, you couldn't rule out the possibility that there were multiple people with that same name. Knowing their religion also helps as there are separate baptism records for each religion. Hesse-Darmstadt was a very religiously mixed area.
So you will need to look for more records in the US: obituaries, naturalization records and lists of incoming passengers/immigrants in particular may have more about their origins.
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Thank you for your response.
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12 years of searching on this line. If anyone has good hints on locating additional records in the US, most likely marriage, ideas appreciated.
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@ScottMoe1 general advice is when you get stuck on a person take a break and work some on all the close relatives.
I looked at your Peter Routh and Marie Barbara Kern in Family Tree. My suggestion for next steps would be to polish the profiles a bit. Add "about" to those approximate dates. Standardize the place names. American women go by their married name in official records far more often than European women do, so add hers to her profile as an alternate. Then go through the attached sources and finish the unfinished attachments.
Then on View Tree, Descendancy, 3 generations, work the pending hints, and polish those profiles too while you are there.
All of this polishing may seem like a waste of your time at this stage but it helps FamilyTree to find more source hints.
A tip about Search: use ? as a wildcard: R?uth
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