Need help finding an Ancestor in Achim

T.Kobus

I'm looking for ideas where to research next. I've hit a dead end on my mother's father's line. Joachim Jörgen Christopher Petersen GC8L-XHL is my brick wall. He died in Achim, Achim, Hannover, 1802. Death record estimates his birth 1761 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPXR-C8FX. I can't read all of it, is there any other information mentioned on his death record that would help figure out where he was born? I assumed in Achim, but I haven't found any records proving it.

I haven't found a marriage record for him or his wife either. Any suggestions how to proceed? I have a tree at Ancestry as well and that is how I initially found his name, it's on one of his descendant's family's table in Ulm. My mother's father claimed their Petersen ancestor's were from Sweden however I haven't been able to go far enough back to find that connection.

Thank you for reading!

Tina

campbellroots

Here is how I would proceed. According to Meyersgaz.org, Achim has one Evangelical church, so the question is, do these church records exist, and if so, where are they kept and have they been filmed or digitized. Meyers states the district court is in Verden. Since I have a subscription to Archion.de (which is in the process of digitizing the German Lutheran records), I checked the Archion records for Lower Saxony; State Church Archives Hannover; Church District Verden; Achim, which lists the survival of Church registers from 1645. However, when I click on the church registers from 1645 Archion's message is:

"This church book is currently not up for digitization. The data are kept very general and are intended to give you a rough orientation. You can also get a good overview on the homepage of the church registry office in Hanover:

www.stadtkirchenkanzlei.de/kirchenbuchamt/familienforschung/bestaende

If and when they are available, my ultimate plan would be to search through the Achim birth registers around 1761 one by one to try and locate his birth and name of the parents and then look for marriage entries between about 1790 and 1800 when Joachim and Albertine would be about 30 and 20 years old, before the birth of son Johann in 1800.

Other more experienced FS Community members may have a better approach.

By the way, Petersen (Peter's son) certainly sounds like Scandinavian origin to me.

T.Kobus

@campbellroots Thank you for your response and checking Archion. I agree on the approach at Archion, I have had to do that for other ancestors and was successful. I will keep checking and hopefully they will make the records available. I agree it definitely sounds Scandinavian. Thanks! 🙂