The Ancestry of Esther Kraus
Church Records
St. Paul Evangelical (UCC), Columbia, Illinois: 1938 Confirmands Directory
• Confirmand Directory: by Last Name
• Confirmand Directory: by Year
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In 1938 St. Paul's Evangelical published a directory of all those confirmed in the church. The entries have been transcribed exactly as written in the directory, which appears to have been compiled from the original hand-written church records. Some names may be misspelled.The information from the directory includes:
• Last name
• First name
• Married name (included for only a subset of the married female confirmands - lack of a married name does not necessarily indicate that the confirmand was unmarried.)
• Year of confirmation (most confirmands were age 13 or 14)
• Residence in 1938 ("City" appears to refer to the town of Columbia)
The original confirmation records for some years include additional information, usually including birthdate, and occasionally includeing names of parents, or date of baptism. The recorded information varied from year to year.
Any additional information that was transcribed from the original confirmation records is included in the "Notes" column of the confirmands directory transcription. (Source: FHL Film 1006419)
Ancestors of Esther Clara Kraus are highlighted in yellow.
1938 Confirmand Directory by Last Name:
Listing of women is by birth name, not married name.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | Ka-Ko Kr-Ku |
L | M |
| N | O | P | Q | R | Sa-Schn Scho-St |
T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
1938 Confirmand Directory by Year:
The Annual Confirmation Prayer
| German | English |
| Herr Jesu, Dir leb' ich | Lord Jesus, for Thee I live |
| Dir leid ich, Dir sterb ich | For Thee I suffer, For Thee I die |
| Herr Jesu, Dein bin ich | Lord Jesus, Thine will I be |
| Tod und lebendig | In life and death |
| Mach mich, O Jesu ewig selig | Grant me, O Lord, eternal salvation, |
| Amen | Amen |