Research Strategy

✅ Event and Nachträge Tables

To help identify and document the ancestry of the two Krückeberg immigrants from Schaumburg-Lippe, Johann Heinrich Krückeberg (1806-1879) and Carl Friedrich Krückeberg (born 1807), a event table is used to synthesize the Petzen parish records involving each generation of a Krückeberg family.

Furthermore, some church register entires have very helpful Nachträge (addenda) that provide the dates of earlier and/or later church ceremonies involving the person. The 1812 Philippine Caroline Christine Krückeberg Marriage, for example, contains the date of her baptism, her future 2nd marriage and the date of her death:

Addenda to marriage record of 1812 Philippine Caroline Christine Krückeberg Marriage
geb. 1.2.92; 2. Cop. 11.5.34
gest. 26.10.70

Translation:
born 2/1/1792; 2nd marriage 5/11/1834
died 10/26/1870

These Nacträge (addenda) reference earlier and later church record entries of the same individual. Thus they can immediately eliminate the manually page-by-page research time consumed locating these other records. Furthermore, by confirming an individual’s identity in earlier and later church records, the mental effort of separately confirming the individual’s common identity across these drecords is also eliminated.

✅ What the Event Table Is

The Event Table is a structured list of all genealogically relevant events found in the Petzen Lutheran church records, including:

  • Births

  • Baptisms

  • Confirmations

  • Marriages

  • Deaths/Burials

And it contains information concerning the:

  • Church ceremony

  • Principal Subject of the ceremony

  • Parents (when given)

  • Residence indicators

  • House numbers (when they begin appearing)

  • Occupations (when given)

  • Status of the Head of Household (when given)

  • Baptism Sponsor relationships

  • Notes to capture important details

✅ Why the Event Table Matters

The Event Table solves this by letting us:

  • ✅ cluster events belonging to the same nuclear family

  • ✅ distinguish same-name individuals

  • ✅ track movement between villages

  • ✅ identify fathers and mothers even when not named

  • ✅ document all claims with proper citations

  • ✅ build a defensible lineage meeting BCG standards

✅ What Columns the Event Table Should Contain

These are the columns the event tables will contain:

| Event Type (B, C, M, D)
| Event Date (exact or circa)
| Name of subject
| Father (as written; normalized in parentheses)
| Mother (as written; normalized in parentheses)
| Residence / village
  (Baptism & Confirmation only)
  (as written)
| House number (when available)
| Occupation (if present)
| Sponsors / witnesses (as written)
| Notes (abbreviations, ambiguity, ditto marks)
| Record Page

Usage Notes (for reference, not part of the table)

Residence information in a church record is most meaningful for Births/Baptisms and Confirmations but not for marriages or deaths. Infants who are baptized and adolescents who are confirmed reside with their family. In the case of marriages, the "residence" give for the bride or groom is their residence at the time of marriage not necessarily their future residence (although the groom’s residence often is the couple’s future residence). In the case of death/burial, a residence is not alwaysy given but rather a "place of death". Therefore, "Residence / Village" and "No." are populated only for:

  1. Baptism events

  2. Confirmation events

For Marriage events:

  • Pre-marriage residence(s) of bride and groom are recorded in the Notes column

  • Residence / Village and No. columns remain blank

For Death / Burial events:

  • Place and time of death and burial are recorded in Notes

  • Residence / Village and No. columns remain blank unless the record explicitly states residence

The table is chronologically ordered by Event Date. The following codes are used for each type of event:

Event Code

Birth

B

Baptism

Ba

Confirmation

C

Marriage

M

Death / Burial

D

✅ Nachträge Tables

What is Nachträge?

Nachträge are later marginal addenda added to entries in German church registers that record additional life events such as a person’s confirmation, marriage, death, or migration.

They link multiple church records to the same individual and confirm their identity over their lifetime.

Why the Nachträge is Important

Nachträge are critical identity evidence. They confirm that the child baptized in a specific record is the same person who later:

  • married on a particular date,

  • died in a particular year,

  • or underwent another recorded ceremony.

Because these marginal notes link multiple life events to the same individual, they strengthen genealogical proof and prevent mistaken identity—especially in villages where names repeat across families.