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Person · Otto Paul Ladusch
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationOtto Paul Ladusch
- 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
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proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
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shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 30 March 1873, Germany
- Died
- 26 December 1958
- Buried
- Oakwood Cemetery
- Parents
- Traugott Ladusch & Johanna Sille (Selle)
- Married
- Emma Stein
- Children
- Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch
- Sources
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Life in the order the records give it
Birth1873
Born
30 March 1873, Germany; came to the United States in
1883, aged about ten
S325S327Census1900
In 1900, Austin Ward 10: Otto 26, married five years, with Emma and daughters
Frieda, 3 and
Elizabeth, 2 S327; in 1910 at
1617 Willow Street, Austin, with Freda 13 and “Liccie” 11
S328Death1958
Died
26 December 1958 at Seton Hospital,
Austin, Travis County, Texas; buried
Oakwood Cemetery, Austin
S325Death—
His death certificate gives his parents as “no record”
S325, and he is not listed among Traugott Ladusch's children on Find a Grave
S336Record1958
🆕 The Texas death index for 1958 lists him as Otto Ladusch, Travis County, 26 December, state
file 72008 Confirmed S1005. added 29 September 2026
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Parents1873
🆕 His father: probably
Traugott Ladusch Probable confirm or correct →. His own Social Security application, as indexed twice, names his father as
Traugott Ladusch and gives his birth as 30 March 1873, the same day as his death certificate
S851S325. What is weak: it is an index of one document, with no image read, and it conflicts with the certificate's “no record” and the Find a Grave child list above. added 28 September 2026.
Parents1945
🆕 His mother: probably
Johanna Sille (Selle) Probable confirm or correct →, named as Traugott Ladusek's wife on the 1945 death certificate of Pauline Wenzel, born in Germany in 1866
S850. What is weak: no document names Otto's mother; the Social Security index leaves her as “?”
S851. added 28 September 2026.
In the record
Generation 5 — great-great-grandparents
- S264Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 — Lucile Kretschmar. Ancestry record 1079872. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth certificate: Lucile Kretschmar, b. 25 Aug 1925, 3905 Ave. B, Austin; father Willie F. Kretschmar 34, carpenter, b. Travis Co.; mother Liessi Ladusch 27, b. New Ulm, Texas.
- S325Texas death certificate no. 72008 — Otto Ladusch, 1958. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 23561925). Read from the image. Born 30 March 1873, Germany; died 26 December 1958, Seton Hospital, Austin, Travis County; parents “no record”; buried Oakwood Cemetery.
- S3271900 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, Austin Ward 10, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 44319545. Read from the image. Otto 26, born Germany, immigrated 1883, married 5 years; wife Emma, born March 1875, Texas, 2 children both living; daughters Frieda 3 and Elizabeth 2.
- S3281910 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, 1617 Willow Street, Austin. Ancestry collection 7884, record 28679316. Read from the image. Otto 36, Emma, Freda 13, “Liccie” 11.
- S329Travis County, Texas marriage index — Otto Ladusch and Emma Stein, 5 November 1895, Austin. Ancestry collection 60183, record 12803. Index entry; the register image has not been read.
- S336Find a Grave memorial 259939327 — Traugott Ladusch. Read 22–23 September 2026. Wife Johanna Selle (1835–1899); children Pauline Alise Wenzel, Annamarie Ehmling, Bertha Nonnenmacher and Reinhold Gustav Ladusch. Otto is not listed.
- S850Texas death certificate, registered no. 9604, Floresville, Wilson County — Pauline Wenzel, 1945. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 23333461, image 40394_b062269-02225). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable Pauline Wenzel, widowed housewife, died 12 February 1945; born 24 February 1866, Germany; father Traugott Ladusek, born Germany; mother's maiden name Johanna Sille, born Germany; informant Max Wenzel, Floresville. A probable sister's certificate, not Otto Ladusch's; cited for the names of Traugott's wife and family.
- S851Social Security application of Otto Paul Ladusch — two indexes. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index (Ancestry record 613670605) and FamilySearch 1:1:6K7G-NCPT (United States Social Security Numerical Identification Files). Index entry only — no image was examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable Otto Paul Ladusch, born 30 March 1873, “Gruny”, West Germany; father Traugott Ladusch; mother “?”. Both index the same application; the SS-5 image has not been read. The birth date matches Otto's 1958 death certificate (S325), whose parents are “no record”.
- S1005Texas death index, 1958, p. 736. Ancestry record 6830106. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed LADUSCH OTTO, Travis County, 26 December, file 72008. The index adds the state file number of his death certificate.