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Subject: Re: [LUTH-ROOTS] Lists of immigrants sponsered
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:05:41 EDT
In a message dated 8/24/2001 8:11:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
> a woman by the name of Mrs. Herman Stotz would write
> this Reverand John Vollstedt in a little town in Oklahoma asking about
> Ernest
> Witt living in Elgin, IL. 19 years after he left Germany.
>
Cidney,
Maybe Pastor Vollstedt had served a parish in Elgin, IL at one time in his
career, and maybe Mrs. Stotz had an old letter from Ernest in which he
referred to his Pastor by name. Her only hope of finding out where Ernest
was. Who knows! Maybe Mrs. Stotz was an old girlfriend looking for her
"first love" :-), or maybe she WAS a relative! Do you have a return
address for her? Maybe you could write to the present Pastor of that parish
in Germany and learn something about who she was.
You can also contact the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Archives <A HREF="http://chi.lcms.org/">Concordia
Historical Institute: Department of Archives and History, LCMS</A> and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives <A HREF="http://www.elca.org/os/archives/intro.html">ELCA Archives</A> . Most
likely, Pastor Vollstedt was a Pastor of the Lutheran Church -- Missouri
Synod (LCMS), or the United Lutheran Church (ULC). The ULC congregations
merged over the years from 1963 on, into what is now called the ELCA. Both
the LCMS and the ELCA Archives can assist you in finding out if Pastor
Vollstedt did serve a Lutheran Church in Elgin, and then that problem will be
solved. They can also help you obtain copies of the early records of that
Lutheran Church in Elgin, which, most likely, will have information about
Ernest Witt! The ELCA has microfilms of most of its congregations which
they will send out on loan for a nominal fee. Perhaps The LCMS has the same.
Hope that this helps! Doris
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