Beucke, Wesenstedt

[GarryBeucke]

I have been involved with genealogy for about 10 years now and it all started with me wanting to find information on my great, great grandfather who was the first Beucke to reach the United States. I have been hunting for some very simple things about him, such as where he was born and lived, who were his parents, did he have any brothers or sisters.

Last year I found a microfiche that was created by the Church of Later Day Saints (the Mormons) and it was titled Beucke. That sounded like a good place to start and within the microfiche I found that there were Beuckes living in a city called Wehdel. I went with the assumption that my family was from Wehdel.

However, about a month ago I was directed to a website called Mundia.com and on that website I found my great, great grandfather listed. I now know who his parents were, where he was born and raised, that he had no brothers or sisters. I also now know that his parents both died before he was 14 and therefore I am sure that he was raised by relatives but I have no idea where to find information about them.

I was told that the church registers may contain the information that I was looking for, so I am looking for the Lutheran church in both Wehdel and in Wesenstedt where my gg Grandfather grew up.

Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

[Friederike]

Hallo Garry,

im Online-OFB Schmalfoerden ist Wesenstedt enthalten.

http://www.online-ofb.de/schmalfoerden/

Es gibt dort einige Beuke aus Wesenstedt:

http://www.online-ofb.de/namelist.php?nachname=BEUKE&ofb=schmalfoerden&modus=&lang=de

[GarryBeucke]

Friederike,

Thanks for the information. One of the problems that I seem to be having is the fact that we spell the last name as Beucke but that does not always seem to have been the case. When I look at some of the family trees that I received from the work of Otto Bach often the last name appears as Beuke. His information does not include children and I am trying to get the church registers to see if I can find that information there.

Also the women are missing from his family tree information. I can only hope that the church registers will provide some of this missing information.

Regards,

Garry

[GarryBeucke]

Friederike,

While there are quite a few members of my family in the list of people that you gave me, I realize that I am missing a lot of people. I need to check for the last name of Beucke. Can you tell me how I might run the same listing that you did but with this different last name?

Regards,

Garry Beucke

[Friederike]

Hello Garry,

do you mean this? http://www.online-ofb.de/famlist.php...en&b=A&lang=de

[GarryBeucke]

Yes, that looks correct but my name (BEUCKE) is not listed and I am not sure how to enter it in the search selection process. I would like to search for all my ancestors in Schmalfoerden area. I am assuming that this is where Wesenstedt is located?

Regards,

Garry

[GarryBeucke]

Friederike,

I see that the parish registers began in 1685. Where would I find these for Wesenstedt?

Regards,

Garry

[Friederike]

Hallo Garry,

Wesenstedt gehört zum Kirchspiel Schmalfoerden. Diese Kirchenbücher
sind verfilmt im Kirchenbuchamt in Hannover

http://www.kirche-hannover.de/kirchenbuchamt/archivbestand.html

[GarryBeucke]

Friederike,

So I won't find Wesenstedt in the listing of church registers but I will find Schmalfoerden? I see that it is located in the Church Register for Sulingen. I am guessing that Wesenstedt is not large enough to warrant it own church register but rather uses one for Schmalfoerden. I also see that one of the other churches that my family went to was in Heilgenloh and that is located in the Syke church register.

When I look up the church register for Schmalfoerden I see a bunch of numbers listed and I assume that these are number that correspond to the microfiche that were created for the church. I also assume that these are available through the LDS and the Church of Later Day Saints (the Mormons)?

Thank you for your help, it is appreciated.

Regards,

Garry

[GarryBeucke]

Friederike,

The earlier search that you sent to me using the name Beuke looked good but I would like to perform a search on my name Beucke. When I look at the list of the name beginning with B it is not listed. Can you tell me how to run a search that would look for all the Beuckes in Schmalfoerden area. I am assuming that this is where Wesenstedt is located?

Regards,

Garry

[Mats]

Hallo Garry,

in der damaligen Zeit gab es keine einheitlichen Schreibregeln,
auch nicht für Namen. Der Pastor schrieb, wie er es hörte und für gut fand.

Du solltest deshalb nicht nur nach "Beucke" sondern auch nach "Beuke" und anderen Schreibweisen suchen. Sonst könnte es sein, daß Du einige Personen übersiehst.

Grüße aus OWL
Anja

[GarryBeucke]

Maybe someone here can help me. I was sent a link to a website called Genealogy.net (genealogienetz.de) and it references a site called Home > Databases > local heritage books > Schmalfoerden. Schmalfoerden was the church that my relatives went to.

The name that is displayed is for Beuke and my last name is actually Beucke. I would like to know how I can change this to display my last name and my relatives. I realize that many of the people shown as Beuke are also relatives but would like to see the name Beucke displayed. Can someone tell me how to change this? When all the last names are displayed BEUCKE is not included in the list of name.

Regards,

Garry

[Kasstor]

When all the last names are displayed BEUCKE is not included in the list of name.

Hi Garry,

obviously the surname was written Beuke in that region. I do not think they deliberately omitted Beucke .

Regards,

Thomas

[Anna Sara Weingart]

Hi Garry
In this case, the name ist standardized to the spelling BEUKE, even if the original entry in the old church book is BEUCKE.
Best regards.

[GarryBeucke]

Hallo Garry,

in der damaligen Zeit gab es keine einheitlichen Schreibregeln,
auch nicht für Namen. Der Pastor schrieb, wie er es hörte und für gut fand.

Du solltest deshalb nicht nur nach "Beucke" sondern auch nach "Beuke" und anderen Schreibweisen suchen. Sonst könnte es sein, daß Du einige Personen übersiehst.

Grüße aus OWL
Anja

Anja,

Yes, I am starting to realize that my last name has been spelled many different ways over the course of history. I have seen Beucke, Beuke, Bouken, Boike, and several other names and I am pretty sure that these are all relatives because they all lived in Wesenstedt where my family was from.

Thanks for your insight, I appreciate it.

Regards,

Garry


Ja, ich fange an zu realisieren, dass mein Nachname hat viele verschiedene Möglichkeiten, sich im Laufe der Geschichte geschrieben. Ich habe Beucke, Beuke, Bouken, Boike und mehreren anderen Namen gesehen und ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass diese alle Verwandten, weil sie alle in Wesenstedt, wo meine Familie lebte ab.

Vielen Dank für Ihre Einsicht, ich schätze es.

Grüße,

Garry