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Local heritage book of Wesuwe
People from Fehndorf, Provinzialmoor and Schöninghsdorf were added. So, the local Heritage Book does not just contain the parish of Wesuwe. Now it covers the region of Wesuwe, including new peat colonies along the Dutch border. A lot of Dutch peat workers worked in these new colonies 1900-1920 according to church books at Matricula.
Project 2 includes checking at Matricula births 1850-1900, marriages 1875-1920, deaths 1900-1920, in short the data missing in Helmut Deters' Excel sheet. That the baptisms were copied exactly until 1850 can be clearly seen in the bar chart below.
28-12-2021: baptisms Wesuwe 1851-1900 are checked, thanks to Johannes Sijbom!
26-05-2021: deaths Wesuwe 1901-1920 are checked at Matricula
13-02-2021: Checked marriages Wesuwe 1881-1920
Corrections and additions are very welcome.
Digitized church books of diocese Osnabruck including the parish of Wesuwe are online since 23-10-2019. This makes it more easy to check my work, please do. How transparent! Be my guest! Especially if you see parents and children who are not listed as such in the OFB, I would like to hear it. Please also let me know if someone had other parents according to you than I claim. Missing links are welcome to improve the quality of OFB Wesuwe.
Project 3 will follow as soon as Matricula shows more recent Wesuwe church books online!
Bar chart with number of births/baptisms, marriages, deaths per 5 years. The data including gaps in Helmut Deters' Excel sheet are clearly visible in the graph, f.e. few data in 1730.
Click the chart to switch to genealogieonline.nl to see additional chart info and more stats, such as the top 10 of last names, the top 10 of professions, the top 10 of male and female first names..
The OFB-website has menu options like Places of Birth of Foreigners and Places of Death of Emigrants. These places give an impression of migration. This functionality is text oriented however. That's why the same GEDCOM has also been published on geneanet.org.
The Google Map shows all placenames of birth, death and marriage in OFB Wesuwe, that is as far as placenames are identified at geonames.org. You can zoom in or zoom out. You can also display the map in full screen mode. Clicking a marker shows the number of marriages, births and deaths in the specific place.
Please try statistics, for instance Population Pyramid. You can set the year yourself. The video below shows a few snapshots of the population structure of Wesuwe through the ages; men left, women right, vertical the number of people in a certain age category in the chosen year.
Haren (Ems) 1904 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/25iyil Reichsamt fur Landesaufnahme 1:100.000 Cartopgraphy Associates, David Rumsey Collection
Kreis Meppen 1950
Geneanet.org has a great way of visualizing family networks. You can show the relationship between two random people in the Wesuwe Local Heritage Book using the function "Calculate Calculation", "Shortest Path". You can find other ways those two people were realted clicking the link "Other Path". Were your (great) grandparents, for example, related to each other via via, other than that they were married? 98% of the people in OFB Wesuwe were interrelated (11-08-2019), which makes watching social / family networks interesting. You can just keep on hitting the "Other Path" link to see extra ways two people were related. Please click here to see the relation between my fathers parents and click "Other Path", or my mothers parents here.
In 2013 I did some statistical research based on the church books of Wesuwe with SPSS. Fun to do but also limited. Please read the results of this study on statistics, in Dutch. The following graphs link to the statistical research on marriages, with questions such as How often, at what age and with what age difference did people get married?.
The video shows 3 pictures I took in 2018 of the interior of the St. Clemens church in Wesuwe. Many of my ancestors were baptized in this baptismal font. Many ancestors have been married in this church over the centuries, many ancestors have been buried on its churchyard. My personal relationship with the region and its history are the reason for putting together this Local Heritage Book Wesuwe.
In addition to the aforementioned authors as far as they are alive, I also thank Bernd J. Jansen (267 x) and Johannes Sijbom (375 x), whose work I have consulted many times and have therefore stated as a source. Jan Feringa (114 x), thank you for sparring about the methodology. Bernd Hartmann from Haren (Ems), thanks for the photos of tombstones in Wesuwe.
The following sites were used to identify place names:
((All people born, lived, died in Wesuwe, Abbemühlen, Altenberge <1848, Altharen, Bersede, Bockholt, Brook, Dankern, Deldorf, Düneburg, Fehndorf, Geest, Hebelermeer, Hüntel, Krüssel, Osteresch, Provinzialmoor, Schöninghsdorf, Versen, Wieresch
OR baptized, got married or were buried in Wesuwe)
AND parents. partner(s), children, children in law)
living EXCLUDED
Living are defined as anyone born less than 100 years ago without a date of death.
The selection concerns the Wesuwe parish. In the days of Napoleon (1809-1814), Rutenbrock and Haren (Ems) also belonged to the municipality of Wesuwe, see JB (Broer) Berens: CBB167. I decided to include deaths in Rutenbrock from CBB167 in OFB Rutenbrock only, not in OFB Wesuwe as well.
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- Version 1 10-06-2019: to go 11% of baptisms, 12% of marriages, 48% of deaths BEFORE Napoleon and 12% of deaths AFTER Napoleon
- Version 2 update 23-06-2019: places of birth check, places of death check, inconsistency check, regional reclassification check
- Version 3 update 07-07-2019: still 9% to go of births 1627-1849, 11% of marriages 1826-1875, 44% of deaths 1627-1814 and 12% of deaths 1815-1900
- Version 4 update 04-08-2019: still 8% to go of births 1627-1849, 10% of marriages 1826-1875, 32% of deaths 1627-1814 and 11% of deaths 1815-1900 Moving insight: for a long time I thought that the default birthplace in Helmut Deters Wesuwe's Excel sheet was. It has since become apparent that this is not always true with the place of residence as stated in the censuses of 1749 and 1655. The next step is therefore to correct birthplace where necessary and as far as possible according to various sources.
- Version 5 update: the marriages in Helmut Deters Excel-sheet once again sorted by last name vcan the mother of the groom respectively sorted by last name of the mother of the bride, then plowed again by the deaths after Napoleon, can again add a lot to the OFB! Also included single families with several young deceased children.
Still 8% to go of births 1627-1849, 9% of marriages 1826-1875, 32% of deaths 1627-1814 and 7% of deaths 1815-1900.
- Version 6 update 19-09-2019: to go 4% of baptisms, 7% of marriages, 29% of deaths BEFORE Napoleon and 4% of deaths AFTER Napoleon
What did I do since the last update? Births / baptisms in Excel were sorted by mother's last name and mother's first name. As a result, children from the same family stand out. As for the same reason births were then sorted by father's first name and mother's first name. As a third action deaths after 1815 were sorted by age at death and everyone older than 10 years taken over in PRO-GEN and marked as such in Excel. With this I released the condition that people had to be related to people who were in OFB Wesuwe already. 21550 Out of the 22729 or 95% of the people in OFB Wesuwe are nevertheless related. OFB Wesuwe contains only 9 stand alone individuals whose parents, partners and/or children are unknown: all men, most priests, 1 shepherd and 1 beggar.
They make beautiful pictures for the function Calculate Relationship via the Shortest Path at geneanet.org. Click here to see the relationship between my grandparents on my father's side and here on my mother's side. You can repeatedly hit the Other Path link. Related here means just related, not blood relationship. In the same way you can see how 2 random ancestors in OFB Wesuwe were related. Fascinating, isn't it?
- Version 7 update 26-9-2019: sorted by place of residence, date and again some people could be identified, that is linked to people who are already in my family tree program. I set remaining baptisms, marriages and deaths (>9 years) after 1815 as single / stand alone persons. Despite the introduction of stand alone persons and families, 21731/23068 = 94% are related to each other in OFB Wesuwe.
to go: 3% of baptisms, 6% of marriages, 29% deaths before 1815 and 4% after 1815, absolutely 334, 198, 1066 and 196 respectively.
- Version 8 update 11-10-2019: I did correct some names of places of birth which were not displayed correctly at Google Maps. Geonames.org was used to identify places.
- Version 9 update 27-10-2019
- more place names of deaths and marriages corrected.
- I added one more source to improve OFB Wesuwe: JB (Broer) Berens CBB167 Wesuwe civil registry Napoleonic era. A valuable source, not only because two declarants were registered per death, mostly neighbours, and even house numbers, but also because old people who died in the period 1809-1814 can partly be found in the status animarum 1749.
- I adjusted some 100 marriages 1812-1814 with place name Wesuwe/Duneburg, meaning they were both civil and a church marriages. The town hall of the municipality of Wesuwe was in Duneburg, with Frans Reinking as municipal officer / mayor.
- Since 23-10-2019 I checked some deaths in the municipality of Wesuwe (1812-1814) in the church books of Wesuwe too using Matricula, a fantastic service, but checking all data this way would be a new project in itself:-)
- unidentified in Helmut Deters' Excel sheet: 3% births 1627-1849, 6% marriages 1826-1875, 27% deaths 1627-1814 and 4% deaths 1815-1900, absolutely 327, 197, 999, 188
After 1 year this is the end of the OFB Wesuwe project, it was a hell of a job, usually monks work, often a fun puzzle:-) Only management remains, resulting from the corrections and additions you send me.
You'll find more info on OFB Wesuwe in the Collectie Broer Berens
Kirchenführer Wesuwe St Clemens 1/2 Kirchenführer Wesuwe St Clemens 2/2
Kind regards,
Pauline Berens
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