I'm trying to research my family origins in Germany and in 2012 I hired a researcher to find some records in a church in Sömmerda, Thuringen. I discovered that my great great grandmother's name was Auguste Gutsche, born approximately 1840 -- she married Gotlob Wilhelm Knauf. She was quite likely from Fulda, Hesse, Germany. (Her mother's name was Antonie and lived in Fulda -- unfortunately I do not have her father's name.)
This is all I know so far. However, through researching on the internet I've noticed that there are other Gutsches in this same time period with similar names to those in my family and they lived in Bessarabia. I'm wondering if anyone knows if the Gutsche family of Fulda/Hesse is related to the Gutsche family that lived in South Russia?
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