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Family Genealogy
Please join me in the continuing journey of discovering our Ancestors!
These pages represent four years of work on my part and several other
researchers, many of them new found cousins. Please follow the links below
to find out more about each family and those who have allowed me to add
their research to my own. If you find a connection, please contact me at the
email address listed below! This is a work in progress. As time moves
forward, I hope to add new information, more photographs and some family
lore. At any time, your contributions will be most welcome.
Surnames of Interest
- Transcriptions of pages found in a 1950 agenda
written by a family member and currently owned by Anne Trabold. It
is not known if the information is accurate but in it there are clues for
further research.
- Maria Anna ENGERT was from Germany, possibly Baden. She immigrated to
Rochester, Monroe County, New York in the early 1830's. There were also
other ENGERTS in Rochester who may have been related. Other associated
surnames are BURCHARD, COULMAN, DONNER, GRIEBEL, HOLLIS, MILLER , WATTEL,
WEILAND and many more.
- Charles FAUST immigrated from Germany in the 1880's to Chili, Monroe
County, New York. He married Elizabeth SELLINGER, a Rochester native.
Other known surnames connecting to this family are HAHN & KUPFERSCHMID. I
am hoping to expand on this family line soon.
- After leaving Bavaria, Germany, John GERTNER came to New York State
and settled in Fremont Center, Sullivan County, New York. He later
relocated to Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio and from there to Piqua,
Miami County, Ohio. His son Henry married Anna SCHNELL and they moved to
Rochester, Monroe County, New York in 1910 while the rest of the GERTNER
and SCHNELL families remained in Ohio. Other associated surnames are BOGA,
ECKERT, KIRKPATRICK, RAKE, WATTEL plus many more. Click on the link for
more information and a photo gallery. Also see below for more information
on the SCHNELL and WATTEL families.
- Two HAHN family members, brother and sister, left their hometown of
Villingen, Wuerttemburg, Germany in the late 1840's for Rochester, Monroe
County, New York. Karl married Franziska STEPHANY and his sister, Maria,
married Charles RAMPE. Other surnames with connections to the HAHN family
are ARTH, ERNST, FELL, FISHER, HEISLER, LORSCHEIDER, MENG, ROTH, SCHAEFER,
VOGEL, YAWMAN and many, many more. Click on the link for more information
and a small photo gallery and see below for more on the RAMPE and STEPHANY
families.
- Jacob HORN, who was born in the Thuringia province of Germany,
immigrated with his wife and family in the 1850's to Rochester, Monroe
County, New York. His son, Frank, married and remained in Rochester. There
is currently no information on his daughter. Associated surnames are
MCDERMOTT, NORSDUDH, ROTH, WATTEL, WILHELM and many more. Click on the
link for more information. Also see below for more information on the
WATTEL family.
- Margaretha KÖHLER immigrated to Piqua, Miami County, Ohio in the early
1850's, following her brothers, Johann and Johann Michel who had already
settled there a few years before. There she married Mathias SCHNELL. Other
associated surnames are GERTNER (see above), MOELLER, PHILLIPPI, OBERER
and many more. Click on the link for more information and see below for
more information on the SCHNELL family.
- Charles RAMPE, who was born in Prussia, immigrated to Rochester,
Monroe County, New York, in the early 1850's. There he met and married
Maria Anna HAHN. Surnames associated to the RAMPES are HUTTE and MEYERING.
I hope to be expanding on this family line soon. Please click on the link
for more information and see the HAHN link above for more information on
Maria.
- Mathias SCHNELL left Heufdorf, Baden, Germany, (his birthplace) as a
young man in 1853, immigrating to Piqua, Miami County, Ohio. Shortly
after, brothers Wendelin and Urban joined him there and the brothers made
their home there. Mathias married Margaretha KÖHLER. Other associated
surnames are GERTNER (see above), HAFNER, HAMMA, HENI, MOELLER, PHILLIPPI,
OBERER, SCHIELE and many, many more. Click on the link for more
information and a photo gallery. Also see above for more information on
the KÖHLER and GERTNER families.
- Franziska STEPHANY immigrated from Pfortz, Bavaria, Germany to
Rochester, Monroe County, New York in the early 1850's, joining her
brother Josef who had come to Rochester sometime prior. Brother Frank
joined them later on. Franziska met and married Karl HAHN. In addition to
the surnames listed above for the HAHN family, other surnames with
connections are ECK, FELDMAN, WEINGERTNER and many, many more.
- In 1932, Elizabeth M. VOGEL kept a diary during the days preceding her mother's death.
The excerpted pages offer a look at the VOGEL family during this time as well as offer a
glimpse into the past for anyone interested in learning more about life in Monroe County,
New York.
- Also spelled, WADEL and WADDEL. John Theobold WATTEL immigrated to
Rochester, Monroe County, New York from Alsace-Lorraine, in the early
1830's. There he met and married Maria Anna ENGERT. Other associated
surnames are BURCHARD, COULMAN, DONNER, GRIEBEL, HOLLIS, MILLER , WEILAND
and many more. Click on the link for more information and a photo gallery
and see above for more information on the ENGERT family.
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