On 4 January, I arrived at the Family History Library right as the doors were opening. I'd waited a month for those films, and damn it, I wasn't going to wait any longer. With me was my saint of a fiancé, who has patiently listened to more rants, vents, and squealing, happy gushes than anyone should have to, and he made the wise decision to bring a book while I scrolled through the microfilms. I was able to find the full names and dates of birth for Ludwig's siblings, Hermann's siblings, and Ludwig's wife Johanna, and also found out that Johann remarried, though I can't find records of Dorothea's death or the second marriage to a Sophia Krenzin (or Krenzien). Four hours later, I left with a whole batch of new information to trace through the census records, and ordered the next sets of Ribnitz parish records, which I'm currently waiting on. Hopefully, they'll be arriving soon.
As I've been simultaneously going through the records for the Lutheran Beus and the Catholic Lihls, I've noticed a tendency with given names that surprises me somewhat. In Ribnitz and Rostock, children are given two or three middle names, while in Neuhaus and the surrounding areas, the children only have a first name, occasionally a second. I would have expected the Catholics to have multiple names as opposed to the Lutherans, but it's quite the opposite. That's something I want to look into and find out the reasons for, but for now, it's making it easier to separate Carl Daniel Christian from his half-brother, Carl August Johann Wilhelm. And no, I won't say that five times fast.
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