We have continued to research while we are "at home." The Brandner family in Dick's paternal line has been a brick wall since early in our genealogy quest. Ferdinand and Catherine came from "Bohemia." We decided to look for a son's second wife without much success until I used our last resort: the trees on Ancestry.
A new source turned up: someone had attached Joseph Brandner's baptismal record! I followed that item to its original post and found a wonderful researcher from Milwaukee who is producing a database of all immigrants from Haberspirk (and surrounding villages) that settled in Wisconsin, particularly Outagamie County. What a find! The church records from the area are available online at portafontium.eu. If anyone is researching that area, use the link.
The baptismal records from the area include the names of the father's and mother's parents, so we could add one more generation to the Brandner line.
Keep researching and continue to return to former databases!
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