Collecting dust on a hard drive

A while back I decided to scan every image on a microfilm that included Deller over in the page margin. It was towards the end of a trip to the Family History Library, and I did it on a whim. The film was of church records, written by a German speaking priest … in Latin. I ended up with 66 full page scans, covering marriages and deaths. The plan was to then casually translate the images in my free time.

Fast forward 6 years, and I’ve started browsing through those images.  The diamond in the ruff (so far?) is this marriage record.  It shows my GG Grandfather and his first wife, Appolonia Buchwieser.  It also includes all 4 of their parents (including maiden names).  That is a whole new generation for me to pour over.

“On the twelfth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six I, Bernard Ihle, parish priest in Iggelheim, after calling the banns three times, joined in marriage two young people, Johann Georg Deller, a catholic, in Iggelheim, the unmarried son of Johann Deller, deceased, a labourer in Iggelheim, and of his surviving wife, Catherina Mapp, and Apollonia Buchwieser, a catholic, in Iggelheim, the unmarried daughter of Johann Buchwieser, deceased, a labourer in Iggelheim, and of his surviving wife, Elisabeth Altvater. In the presence of the witnesses Johann Adam Hath and Daniel Buchwieser of Iggelheim.”