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After researching this Wiltz family, we found numerous names and dates on Ancestory.com and FamilySearch.org that are completely wrong and offered no sources or only second-hand sources to support their claims. In an attempt to correct some of these errors, we conducted our own research.
We have found records at the Mobile, Alabama Cathedral and St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans that we have scanned into the Memories section of their pages.
■ We also found at the "Historic New Orleans Collection," in New Orleans, call # 395, Folder #14, a letter from a priest at St. George's Lutheran Church in Eisenach, Germany, dated July 27,1902. This letter is written in "old German" script, and difficult to read and was written to Professor J. Hanno Deiler of New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Deiler was a prominent German historian who wrote several books on the early German settlers of south Louisiana. Apparently Dr. Deiler had requested some early church records on the Wiltz family from Eisenach, Germany. With the letter, the German priest sent, handwritten in old German script, "Certified" copies of the baptism records for "Lorentz Conrad Wiltz, baptized on August 16,1705, page 217, at Eisenach" and "Johann Ludwig Wiltz, baptized on July 16, 1711, page 217, at Eisenach," and neither record gave the exact dates of birth. The priest also sent a "Certified" copy of their parent's marriage record, page 217, at Eisenach dated September 18,1702. Parties named were "Johann Diedrich Wiltz and Christina Sophia Franck (in)." This record does not name their parents or where they were born.
Next, we asked Yvonne Day with "The Louisiana Genealogical Register" in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to see what can be found in the Archdiocese of New Orleans that contained records on the Wiltz family. She sent us all the early records she found, mostly pertaining to the family of Johann Ludwig Wiltz, the brother of our Lorentz Conrad Wiltz. This family settled at Des Allemands, St. Charles parish, Louisiana, also called the "First German Coast." This email, with the records she found, are scanned into the "Memories" section on the Wiltz pages on FamilySearch.org.
To highlight some of the records found in these sources, we offer the following:
1.	The name Wiltz is sometimes found with the suffix "en" as found on the above baptism records. The "en" means "small" as an infant or, masculine.
2.	Christina Sophia Franck's name on her German marriage record has the suffix of "in." This suffix simply means "wife of' or "feminine" in the "old German language" - not part of her true name of "Franck."
3.	The September 18,1702, marriage record of Johann Diedrich Wiltz and Christina Sophia Franck
took place at St. George's Lutheran Church at "Eisenach im_______________(not legible), Sachsen (means
old Saxony) - Weimer (old term for Germany), Eisenach." Today, because of political bounder changes, Eisenach is not located in the modern state of Saxony, Germany. Saxony, once included a much larger part of Germany, is now located on the east border of Germany. Eisenach is now located in the center of Germany in the state of Thuringia. Prior to 1871, the country of Germany did not formally exist. It consisted of a number of smaller independent states that now make up today, what we know as Germany. Also note that, in the 1700s, this part of Germany was also known as "Prussia."
4.	Lorentz Conrad Wiltz's Mobile marriage record in 1735 says his parents were "Jean (Letoy, Cetoy, Teloy?) Wiltz and Christine (Francque, Franeque?) of Esnac(?), Saxony." The handwritten record in French is poorly written and difficult to read. Lorentz father's middle name of "Letoy," etc. is a mystery
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