Ken's Connection II

Welcome to Ken's Connection II

This website has become the repository for my research on my family trees. I have learned that I have more than one tree. There are 5 trees listed below. The first one is my main tree. It lists all the people in my tree regardless of how remote the branches become. I have received many emails from folks - family - that are way out on the periphery and they have added even more branches to the tree.

The next four trees were created as much smaller subsets of the main tree. But, instead of looking from today to the past, it was created by looking at the oldest ancestor in that line and looking from the past to today. They are descendencies. We live in a patrilinear society. So what I have done is chosen the paternal lineages of my four grandparents; Koch, Krupp, Kingery, and Pritsch.

I am extremely pleased with the service that RootsWeb has extended to users like myself. I still have a web page on my ISP, I think, but I outgrew their space limitation of 10 Megs. Since my tree was growing out to 25 Megs, I either had to prune it way back, or take advantage of RootsWeb's generosity. Well, I've done both. I keep a pruned back version of my ancestry which contains only my direct bloodlines on my other web page. The de-limbed tree still is quite healthy with over 1417 blood relatives and can be viewed at Ken's Connection I. (note: site temporarily down until the att@home versus excite@home and ATT Broadband Internet folks all come to agreement)

CAUTION! These trees are NOT fully researched. In no way have I tried to amass a mountain of paper. That is what I have always stated to anyone and everyone who has ever asked. If your style of genealogy demands absolute proof, you are at the wrong place. Please spare me your criticism of my methods. If you feel the overwhelming urge to criticize my style, be creative. My favorite so far is that I am a "NAME COLLECTOR". It should also be noted that the so-called "genealogist" who gave me this moniker has relayed inaccurate information to me. So, be careful who you trust. Names omitted to protect the guilty.

The Ancestors of Kenneth Koch

(that's me)

Koch/Krupp and Kingery/Pritsch

This is the complete, no holds barred family tree. It contains 14,638 individuals and 5,318 families. I try to update this tree occasionally, perhaps every other month. I keep the most current information on my home computer where updates occur constantly. Whenever a significant change has occurred in my offline research, I will update the online pages. Because of that, some changes do not show up immediately. Check back often for updated pages! If you seem to get errors, it may be because I have updated these pages. When that happens, use the "refresh" button of your browser to ensure you have the latest version of the web page in your computer's Temporary Internet Files directory.

The Descendants of Karl Koch

b. 1866 - d. 2 Nov 1949

Karl Koch is as far back as I can trace my fraternal bloodline. This tree has only 60 individuals and 25 families. Karl was born in Germany and emigrated to to the United States. I have a postal cover addressed to him in Ohio from Germany, so there may be some relatives still over there. I have been unable to find anything on his wife, Rosalie Duvier. She was born in Alsace around 1864. Together they had three children. The first child was born in Germany and the other two were born in Ohio. That sets the immigration date to somewhere around 1893 or so. They settled in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Cleveland rocks!

The Descendants of Franz Krupp

b. ? - d. 15 Feb 1769

My paternal grandmother was Irene Krupp. This tree has 494 individuals and 150 families. I can trace the Krupp bloodline back to Franz Krupp. Franz was from Kuebelberg, Pfalz, Bavaria. Much of the credit for research on this line goes to Loretta Gerber. Her work has opened this are wide open and we continue to add new branches to this tree all the time. The Krupp's came to America some time between 1827 and 1850. They settled in northwest Ohio, mostly in Huron and Seneca counties.

The Descendants of John Kingery

b. ? d. - 16 Jan 1786

My maternal grandfather was Dale Kingery. This tree has 1951 individuals and 664 families. The Kingery's have been very careful to document their history and the result is the large number of individuals in this tree. Most of the initial work on this tree was done by Kathleen Kingery, my mother's twin sister. A large portion also came from a book written by Merle C. Rummell titled The Virginia Colony: A History and Record of the Families and Times of the Four Mile Church of the Brethren, Union Co, Indiana. I understand there may be a few hard copies of the book still available in some Indiana libraries. I happened across an electronic version of the book. I have since converted that copy which was written with WordPerfect into a Microsoft Word formatted document. John Kingery was born in Germany. He and his two (there may be more!) sons died in Pennsylvania. That places his emigration from Germany between 1715 and 1786. Over the course of several generations, the Kingery's moved west to Ohio. They were among the first into the Indiana Territory when it was opened for settlement and pioneered their homesteads in central Indiana.

The Descendants of George Pritsch

b. 13 Jul 1830 d. - 2 Mar 1911

My maternal grandmother was Edith "Opal" Pritsch. This tree has 206 individuals and 80 families. George Pritsch can be traced back to Baden, Germany. He emigrated from Germany between 1879 and 1894 and apparently settled directly in Indiana.

Send mail to Ken at: kennethkoch@attbi.com

Strongly recommended!