As soon as I saw the reference in the naturalization record from the early 20th century I knew it was not spelled correctly. The name of the town in northern Germany was probably not Fresse.

I didn’t start to research the European ancestors of this relative born in “Fresse,” until I had done significantly more work on him in the area of the United States where he settled. This was done to potentially learn more about him here and to get other spellings for that place of birth–the mysterious “Fresse.”

It was actually Wrisse.

It would take some research to finally prove it. An unproven hunch is still an unproven hunch. Unproven hunches can lead to research ideas and to records that may eventually lead to hunches that are proven. But hunches don’t prove themselves.


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