the journey of finding my ancestors... all the people who came before me to make me who I am
I have been struggling to learn more about Samuel Christian Friedrich Baumgarten’s parents for quite some time.
My research suggested that his father was a Cantor in Usingen, and that his name was Johann Nicolaus Friedrich Baumgarten. I had no information at all on his mother - not even her name. I guessed that they were Lutherans rather than Catholics, based on their son Samuel getting married in a Church of England parish when he was in England. It’s not a foolproof assumption, but sometimes you just have to make a guess in order to move your research forward!