EDITORS NOTE: William Phips is NOT related to us. He did, however, play a large part on our family’s history. Specifically, for their participation in the Quebec excursion: Lt Preserved Abel, Sgt Samuel Sabin, and John Ormsby. And with the Salem Witchcraft Trial – Samuel Abbe. This first article discusses those events. Lt Andrew Newcomb […]
Read MoreSchauers in the Frontier Zone between Polish and German Culture and Politics
by Norbert Luedtke 2004 At this time, the earliest we can directly trace the Schauer family is to Jacob Schur, born 1790. His death is listed in the church records as February 24, 1846 in the farming village of Ploetzmin, Tarnowke Parish, in Deutsch Krone Kries (District), in the German Provence of West Prussia. This […]
Read MoreWhere Our Ancestors Lived: William Burton, Casstown
William Burton moved with his mother and step father to Casstown, OH where he lived on the “Burton Homestead” until he died. He was captured in the 1871 Lost Creek Township Platt map.
Read MoreUpdate! The Travels of Albert
Earlier, I posted about the “travails of Albert”. At that time, the evidence we had of Albert and family in a 2 or 3 year stay in Texas was the manifest for the return of Grandfather, Ernest Nehmer, from World War I. And Albert’s WWI draft registration. I found the 1920 census from Justice Precinct […]
Read MoreMissing Image of Great Grandpa Christ Schauer?
One of the problems I ran into was that my Great Grandfather died in the early 1900’s and I could find no pictures of him. I had pictures of Great Grandma Marie Hamann Schauer, but not of Great Grandpa. After checking with as many relatives, I was about to give up until I remembered a […]
Read MoreLouise Schauer’s Birth Record Found!
One of the records I could not locate was a birth record for my Grandmother, Louise E. Schauer. I knew her birthday was 12 November 1895 in what I was pretty sure was Milwaukee, but only knew Wisconsin for sure. I also had found most of Grandma’s sibling’s records. They all matched. Parents: Christoff Schauer […]
Read MoreThe Perils of Albert . . .
Sometimes you have to wonder what causes a person to uproot his family once to move to a new country. But why would someone move his family around his new state and country? While all the reasons may not be known, in the case of Albert Nehmer, there may be some tragic reasons. Albert Nehmer […]
Read MoreMy Grandparent’s Florida Swampland
Among the many records of my grandfather, Jan and Eva Sajdak, that my father kept after my grandmother’s death, one of the most perplexing was a “Agreement for Warranty Deed from Hurban Colony Zellwood, Florida to Jan Sajdak.” The contract from March of 1917 introduced the cast of characters who would star in a family […]
Read MoreTribute to the Work of Mark Valsame
Sometimes, we stumble upon people’s work and realize the effort and work they did. Such was my good fortune when I ran across Mark Vasame’s family page on the old Geocities. His work was outstandingly detailed, resourced, and interesting. I used his work regularly. His site disappeared recently, but was captured by the Wayback Machine. […]
Read MoreThe History of Charles R. Kingsley
CHARLES R. KINGSLEY, a prosperous general agriculturist and successful stock-raiser, of Ontwa Township, Cass County, Mich., is a native of the Old Bay State and was born in Bernardston, Franklin County, Mass., May 21, 1831. The parents of our subject, Elijah and Harriet (Carpenter) Kingsley, were of New England birth and were reared among the […]
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