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Sunday, March 27, 2005 Added more photos from the Ketzel line, courtesy of Tish Kallenbach Glibertson. posted by Susan | 7:58 AM Saturday, March 05, 2005 Delighted further to report that Diane Sayers Sage has identified one of the photos from Tish Kallenbach Gilbertson, and has also contributed a number of wonderful photos from the Meyer, Kriedemann and Reichhold lines, including the first photo I've ever seen of my grandfather, Edward Meyer, who died in the 1920's, when his children were small. To see the new photos, click on Family Photos above, and go to the end of page 3 and all of page 4. posted by Susan | 10:26 AM Friday, January 14, 2005 Delighted to report that I was recently contacted by Tish Kallenbach Gilbertson, who is a descendant of Frederick and Dorathea Mary [Ullrich] Ketzel. She has contributed some photos for the Ketzel line. See Death Records above for the death notice of Frederick Ketzel, son of William Ketzel, and Photos above, last page, for a possible photo of Fred and Mary Ketzel. posted by Susan | 6:01 PM Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Added obituaries for Bruce E. Sayers and Harold E. Meyer to death records. To see these additions, click on Death Records above, then on Obituary Bruce E. Sayers or Obituary Harold E. Meyer. posted by Susan | 7:54 PM Sunday, March 21, 2004 Added 1900 and 1910 Illinois census data for John and Dennis McMullen, brothers of Annie McMullen Allensten. To see these additions, click on Census Records above, then McMullen Text. posted by Susan | 2:14 PM Thursday, March 18, 2004 Added 1900, 1910 and 1920 Illinois census data for Bernard and Jane [McMullen] McQuillan. Jane was the sister of Annie McMullen, wife of Ferdinand Allensten. To see this addition, click on Census Records above, then McQuillan Text. posted by Susan | 8:33 AM Wednesday, March 17, 2004 Added the obituary of Maryann Allensten Banke. To see this addition, click on Death Records above, and then Maryann Allensten Banke Obit. posted by Susan | 9:48 AM Monday, March 15, 2004 Added 1880 Missouri census data for John Meyer, and Illinois census data for Edward Meyer, sons of John and Angela Meyer. Added 1900 census data for Charles and Rosa Rothgeb and Angela Meyer in Quincy. To see these additions, click on Census Records above, and then Meyer Text or Rothgeb Text. Added a site search feature on the index page of the site, which allows the entire site to be searched, and also allows subsearches of the search results. See the upper right quadrant of this page, for this feature. posted by Susan | 7:32 PM Added quite a lot of Borstadt census data from census years 1860 through 1920, in Illinois, Colorado, California, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. To see these additions, click on Census Records above, and then Borstadt Text. Updated the Family Histories pages, and added the LeGrand Family History, which is in PDF format. To see this addition, click on Family Histories above, then LeGrand Family History. It's a 2MB PDF file, so might take awhile to load on slower systems. posted by Susan | 5:31 AM Saturday, March 13, 2004 Added numerous obituaries and some death records to the Death Records section. Split the Death Records page into two pages, to be more manageable. Most of the obituaries are from the Chicago Tribune, and are for ancestors who lived in the Chicago area, and who relate to the John Francis "Frank" and Ellen Hinchey Meyer line. To see the additions, ciick on Death Records above. posted by Susan | 7:15 PM Thursday, February 26, 2004 Added 1870 Cook County, Illinois census data for Adolph and Mina Kriedemann and family, and census image. To see this addition, click on Census Records above and then Kriedemann Text. posted by Susan | 10:00 AM Friday, February 20, 2004 Added 1880 Hinchey census data, including a map to where the Hinchey family lived in 1880 in Chicago. Added 1880 Banke census data for Frederick and Bertha Banke. To see either of these additions, click on Census Records above and then Hinchey or Banke Text. posted by Susan | 10:14 AM Thursday, February 12, 2004 Added a link to a Freiburg genealogy-related site, found during some research. Click on the Freiburg link on the right. posted by Susan | 8:19 PM Sunday, February 08, 2004 Added obituary of William Meyers to Death Records. This is not yet confirmed as the William Meyers who is the brother of John Francis "Frank" Meyer and son of John Christopher Meyer, but it's the best possibility we've found so far. To see this record, click on Death Records above, and then on William Meyers. posted by Susan | 7:51 AM Sunday, February 01, 2004 Added 1880 Hacker census data for possible parents and siblings of Henry Hacker. To see this information, click on Census Records above, then Hacker Text. posted by Susan | 3:02 PM Thursday, January 29, 2004 Added 1880 census data for Bruggeman in Baltimore. Updated the surnames list. To see these changes, click on Census Records above, and then on Bruggeman, or click on Surnames above. posted by Susan | 6:23 PM Wednesday, January 28, 2004 Added Bruggeman census data for Berta Bruggeman and her family in 1870 Baltimore, Maryland. Added a link to Jeff Banke's genealogy pages, which have some wonderful Banke photos. Added Hinchey census data for 1880 for possible related Hinchys, in the search for our elusive Hincheys. To view these additions, click on Census Records above, then the appropriate surname, or the Banke link on the right for the Banke photos. posted by Susan | 2:51 PM Sunday, January 18, 2004 Added Whitehead census data for 1880, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. To view these additions, click on Census Records above, then Whitehead Text. posted by Susan | 4:13 PM Wednesday, May 07, 2003 Added Sohn census data for 1870, 1880 and 1900 in Quincy, Illinois, and for Whitehead for 1920 in Dayton, Ohio. The 1870 Sohn census is the sole independent record we've found to date proving the existence of Crescentia Sohn. She is with her father, Carl or Charles, and mother, Amalia. Other Sohn entries were listed because they are likely sisters and brothers of Charles. To view these additions, click on Census Records above, then Sohn and Whitehead. posted by Susan | 2:30 PM Sunday, May 04, 2003 Added Peter LeGrant [sic] census data for 1900 US Federal Census in Chicago, Illinois, and for Christ and John Le Grand, added 1920 US Federal Census in Chicago, Illinois. To view these additions, click on Census Records above, then LeGrand. posted by Susan | 1:14 PM Sunday, March 23, 2003 Added Gustaf LeGrand census data, for 1920 and 1930 US Federal Census, in Chicago, Illinois, and for Pete LeGrand for 1920 US Federal Census, in Clay County, Iowa. To view it, click on Census Records above, then LeGrand Text. posted by Susan | 9:49 AM Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Welcome to Our Roots WebLog (blog). We've set this up so that we can easily post information regarding updates to this site, to make it easier to find what's new. If you know you are, or believe that you might be, related to any of the lines followed on this site, please leave a comment for us, so that we may contact you regarding exchanging information in our mutual research. Thank you! posted by Susan | 8:55 AM |
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