User talk:ElainePetersen

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Hello, I'm @Oogalee Boogalee I noticed you keep reverting my expansion to the article Julius Schmid. May you explain why? my information is sourced and referenced, your reverts take away content from the article. Oogalee Boogalee (talk) 07:45, 28 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Oogalee, please see the following report that was done on the subject of Julius' religion which should explain why I removed your revision on this subject. With regard to the PBS article, itself, please note that Julius did not die in 1955 as stated. He died in 1939.  Also, there is no primary source reference that substantiates any claim that Julius came from an old Jewish family.  On the subject of where Julius' interesting contraceptive began, that is a debatable subject but there is a website coming on in the near future which will provide further details on this.
 * Esther Bauer Ph.D.  Genealogy Translations
 * www.oldgermantranslations.com
 * Carl Julius Schmid’s Ancestry
 * This report traces Carl Julius Schmid’s (*17 March 1865) ancestry back to the last half of the 17th Century. He emigrated to America in 1882.  Certain authors in later generations have claimed that he was Jewish or that he came from an old Jewish family that had converted and were baptized Christian. That is however incorrect.
 * We have examined the original handwritten German family records for 8 generations in order to provide clear answers to these questions, have provided translations of each record, and also included records pertaining to each maternal and paternal ancestor.
 * All of Carl Julius Schmid’s family members and ancestors, as shown in the Church Books of Schorndorf[1] and Strümpfelbach[2], were baptized soon after birth, and born to Evangelical, Christian parents. They were “burghers” - citizens of their town or village, with special rights and duties. Among them were highly respected town councilors, vintners, master craftsmen, and innkeepers. Neither Carl Julius Schmid’s paternal ancestors, nor his maternal ancestors were Jewish.
 * The claim that Carl Julius Schmid might have been Jewish is therewith disproven.
 * It also should be noted that  Jewish conversions are clearly marked in church books, and that before the 1790s and early 1800s, Jewish conversions were extremely rare in Germany.
 * [1] Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, Dekanat Schorndorf, Church Books of Schorndorf, Volumes 1-26
 * [2] Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, Dekanat Wailblingen, Church Books of Strümpfelbach, Volumes 1-17 ElainePetersen (talk) 19:11, 2 December 2022 (UTC)