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Person · Johann Michael Pröger
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationJohann Michael Pröger
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
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Person · Johann Michael Pröger
Skip to sources ↧- Born
- 28 April 1740
- Died
- 20 April 1795
- Parents
- Johann Caspar Pröger
- Married
- Anna Margaretha Raisig
- Sources
- 3
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — his baptism, both marriages and his burial read from the register images
S596S597. Added 26 September 2026
Life in the order the records give it
Work—
A
master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen
S596Death1795
Died
20 April 1795, aged 55 years less 8 days; buried at Triensbach on 23 April
S596Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1777
Married second, as a widower,
18 February 1777 at Triensbach,
Eva Barbara Aufläder, daughter of the smith at Mistlau
S597In the record
Generation 8 — Earl's earliest known
- S594Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1772, pp. 90–91, no. 7: Johann Leonhard David Pröger, 5 June 1772. Ancestry record 16794369, image 1860313-00057. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Son of Johann Michael Pröger of Erkenbrechtshausen and Anna Margaretha (surname read Rösig/Rasig); born at noon on 5 June and baptised the next day.
- S596Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1740, p. 78, no. 8, and burials 1795, p. 336, no. 70: Johann Michael Pröger. Ancestry records 16644716 (image 1860322-00703) and 16795410 (image 1860313-00186). Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Born 28 April 1740, son of Johann Caspar Pröger, farmer at Triensbach, and Margaretha; the pastor wrote his death, 20 April 1795, in the margin. The burial calls him a master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, aged 55 years less 8 days, buried 23 April. Indexed as "Tröger".
- S597Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, marriages 1772, p. 124, no. 153, and Triensbach, marriages 1777, p. 185, no. 1: Johann Michael Pröger. Ancestry record 15794593 (image 1528606-00712) and image 1860313-00108. Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 22 January 1772: Johann Michael Pröger and Margaretha Rasigin, both servants at the manor farm of Erkenbrechtshausen, the bride pregnant. 18 February 1777 at Triensbach: Johann Michael Pröger, 37, master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, a widower, and Eva Barbara Aufläderin, daughter of the late Johann Georg Aufläder, smith at Mistlau.
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