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Person · Dorothy Freda Kretschmar
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationDorothy Freda Kretschmar
- 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
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
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Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
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.
Living — withheldThe person is living. By the privacy rule for this page, name and relationship are
shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 30 December 1920
- Died
- 15 August 2003
- Parents
- Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch & Willie Frank Kretschmar
- Sources
- 3
- Images
- 1
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026;
corrected 26 September 2026 from her own birth certificate
S665.
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1920
Born
30 December 1920 at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, Texas, as Dorothy Wolter
S665; Dorothy, 9, at 1911 East First Street in 1930
S251Death2003
Died 15 August 2003. Her 1937 Social Security application names Willie Kretschmar as her father: she filled it in at 16 and named the stepfather who raised her
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
Open question
⚠️
Correction, 26 September 2026: this card used to call her Willie Kretschmar’s daughter. Her birth certificate, made at the time, names her father as
William P. Wolter, 25, a farmer born in Travis County, and her mother as Liessi Ladusch; she was her mother’s first child
S665. Willie Kretschmar married “Mrs. Liessi Wolter” in October 1923
S225 and raised her from the age of two.
Photos & documents 0 photos · 1 document
Documents (1)
Documents · 1 page image all documents
Retrieved from the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History,
or — for the University of Texas Cactus yearbooks — from Texas ScholarWorks.
Each thumbnail opens the full page scan, which can also be downloaded. The quoted text
is the OCR that ships with the scan, copied verbatim; the page image is the authority.
In the record
Generation 3 — Kristin's grandparents and their siblings
- S225Travis County, Texas, marriage license No. 224 — Willie Kretschman and Mrs. Liessi Wolter, 10 October 1923. Ancestry record 40780372; marriage record p. 464. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Willie Kretschman [Kretschmar] and Mrs. Liessi Wolter, licensed and married 10 October 1923 by G. W. P. Showalter, minister of the gospel; returned and recorded 12 October. ⚠ She is styled "Mrs.", so Wolter may be a first husband's name rather than her maiden name; not settled.
- S2511930 United States Federal Census — Willie and Liessi Kretschmar household. Ancestry record 60683525; sh. 7B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1930 census, Austin, Travis Co., sheet 7B: Willie Kretschmar 39 (City Playgrounds, WWI veteran), Liessi 32, Dorothy 9, Lucille 4, Raymond (infant), at 1911 East First Street.
- S665Texas standard certificate of birth no. 69345 — Dorothy Wolter, Austin, Travis County, 30 December 1920. Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903–1932, Ancestry collection 2275, record 441881, image 33153_B061456-00634 (FamilySearch 1:1:X2YT-8RW). Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Born at 1617 Willow Street; father William P. Wolter, 25, farmer, born Travis County; mother Liessi Ladusch, 22, born Austin; her first child. Filed 13 January 1921.