BAVARIA GERMANY RESEARCH--ROMAN DERRA
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I am researching ROMAN DERRA who immigrated to America in Nov 1894. His occupation was FARMER. When leaving Germany, Roman ported out of BREMEN and came to America through Ellis Island. The ships passenger list from Bremen were destroyed during WWII and the ships manifest at Ellis Island were destroyed by fire in 1912. I have found a lot of information on Roman in America, but am having a problem in finding information on him in Bavaria. Roman’s future wife ANNA MARIA DEISSENBERGER came from a village in Bavaria called STETTEN. She immigrated to America in the early part of 1893. She and Roman married in a Catholic Church in America on Jan 1894. In an article announcing their fiftieth wedding anniversary, it stated they were childhood sweethearts while in Germany. I found a lot of Catholic Church records in Germany on Anna’s family, but the church archivist could not find anything in the church records on Roman. I do not know if Roman was Catholic or Lutheran.
I did find Roman had a sister BARBARA who married in Germany in 1881 to JOHN OECHSNER, who was Lutheran. John and Barbara had two children FRANK AND PETER who were born in Germany. John and Barbara and their two sons immigrated to America in 1890. Found Frank and Peter’s naturalization papers and they stated they were born at FRITZENDORF. I googled Fritzendorf which said this was a farming community and there was no church there. That the people went to church at ROSENBERG. This is where I have a brick wall. Cannot find any further information on Roman. Would like to find out who his parent where, where did he come from, and did he have any other siblings besides Barbara. Was there a German census for the 1870 or 1880’s. I am thinking Roman’s name may have been misspelled or changed, and that is the reason I cannot find more information on him. Any help will be appreciated.
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HI!!! I have an account in Ancestry and found him -- I hope-- by looking up his wife. There was a link to a Passenger list with his name on it. Here it is https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/166162081/person/112164852324/facts.
Pasted it here just in case the link could not be pulled up. Hope this is helpful to you. PaulaAnn Let me know if further help can be provided.
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Thank you for your help. I too had found this document and that is how I found that he came from Germany and what his occupation was in Germany. His wife lead me to her German home and I found a church archives that had a lot of German records on her side but they could not find anything on Roman. He is my brick wall. Any advise that this German group can give me will be taken.
Respectfully,
BBAllen
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I went back to the Ancestry Tree, and it shows a Thomas Derra as Roman's father. Unfortunately, I could not find any sources to back this up. Rebecca Kerchner is supporting this tree. Does that name sound familiar? PaulaAnn 😀
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No this name is not familiar to me. In fact, I have more that Rebecca has on the family line. She does not do any research, all she does is scan and past. Yes, I did see that the name Thomas was Romans father. I also saw a copy of Romans sister Barbaras death certificate and it too had Thomas as the name of Father and Margaret as the name of her Mother. Barbaras son Frank gave the information for the death certificate, so one has to think that this information is correct because Barbara and her husband John were living with Frank when the1930 U.S. census was taken. I really don't believe everything I see on Ancestry Tree. There are a lot of errors made, and the Mormons will admit that. I think if one follows everything one sees on those trees, one can go down the rabbit hole very quickly. I like to go to the actual county courthouse and do my own research and get the actual raw documents. That way I know I have the real facts. I also think a lot of people purposely make mistakes so someone will give them the information they are looking for (just my own thoughts). But in Germany, I cannot do that, because I don'ta live there.
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You are so right. Sometimes, however, we do find our missing persons there, so I always look--just in case. Sorry we did not find anything for you. :( PaulaAnn
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Thank you for all of your efforts.
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