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Welcome to the Queenealogist’s homepage. We are pleased to have you visit us in our new location. If you are searching for someone in one of our family trees, look below for links to our family history articles.
If you discover something of value in our castle archives, you may copy it for personal use only, assuming you understand that some data have not been documented. Of course, the Queenealogist would appreciate being given credit for her authorship. It takes a lot of work to run a queendom, and a few thanks go a long way. Additions and/or corrections are warmly appreciated, especially if they come accompanied by vital records, old photographs, or dark chocolate.
Please include “genealogy” or “family history” in the subject line of your email. Cordially, Elaine Schenot, a.k.a. the Queenealogist
From the Queenealogist's Own Family Tree
CHENOT: A History of the CHENOT / SHENOT / SCHENOT Family in America, including a link to the LAVERY branch.
Related families include these surnames: CAHILL; CARHART; CLAUDE; COYLE; FARRELL; FERCHLAND; GAGNEUR; LARCHER; LAURENT; LAVERY; Le CLAIR; McCANN; MERRILL; PATTERSON; POWERS; SPANKUCH; STOVER; WINES; and WINTER.
The HECHT Family of Dayton, Ohio
Related families include these surnames: AMANN; GROTHAUS; JERGENS; KRAUHS; LEYES; LIENESCH; SHUMAKER (SCHUMACHER); and ZIEGLER.
No time to read the narrative?
Click here to read the wills of Martin, Michael, and Margaret HECHT.
Click here to view the HECHT photos.
The JERGENS Family of Dayton, Ohio
Related families include these surnames: ABELE; DESSECKER; HECHT; KLEINFELDER; LEYES; LOGEL; REDIESS; STEFFEN; and ZINK.
Also: The German Origins of Philipp JERGENS of Cincinnati, Ohio, with new information about Philipp’s family in Germany.
Updated 23 March 2012 with a new article: Infighting among the 2nd Generation: Zink v. Jergens
No time to read the narratives? Click here to look at the JERGENS pictures.
The LEYES Family of Dayton, Ohio
Updated 23 Feb 2012 with more information about Mary A., wife of Joseph Leyes. Also, expanded information on the family of Harry P. Leyes.
(Our previous update included corrected information about the parents of Mary Bernadine, wife of Phillip Leyes.
Related families include these surnames: BAHLMANN; CLAYTON; CRAIG; CUNNINGHAM; CUSTENBORDER; FRANCIS; GOUGH; HECHT; HILL; JERGENS; KIST; KRAMER; LANGENKAMP; SCHUTTE; SEAGER; SIEVERDING; SMITH; STICH; STOECKLEIN; STUCKENBURG; and ZAVAKOS.
No time to read the narrative? Click here to look at the LEYES pictures. We have added an image of John and Margaret Leyes’s 1853 marriage record and, most recently (on March 19, 2012), some fine photos relative to the family of Joseph and Mary A. Leyes.
VON DREELE: The Descendants of Caroline BECKMAN & John Herman VON DREELE
Updated 24 April 2010 with additional information about the family of John Herman Schwoerer, son of Matilda (von Dreele) Schwoerer.
Related families include these surnames: ALEXANDER; BARKLEY; BERKHEISER; BOSBYSHELL; BROWN; BURGESS; CASE; CHANDLER; CONNELLY; EBNER; FAUBION; LAUDENSLAYER; LOFTUS; MACKEY; MILLS; OBERFELL; QUIGLE; RATHMELL; SCHWOERER; SPOONER; STUEMPFLE; TREGO; ULMER; and WILCOX.
WATSON Genealogy: Regarding Samuel #26 WATSON
This article is a proposed correction to the published Watson genealogy The American Family of John Watson of the Narragansett Country, Rhode Island. It offers evidence that John Watson has Samuel #26 married to the wrong woman; names the woman Samuel #26 really married; provides the names of their eight children; and suggests which other Samuel WATSON most likely married Nancy PRATT.
Also: Where’s Alice? The Location of the “Lost Watson Lot” where Samuel Watson’s daughter Alice is buried.
No time to read the articles? Click here to look at the WATSON images and pictures.
The Saga of Ira WATSON and Nellie ORMSBY
This article could prove useful to some folks from Rhode Island whose surname is WILSON. It wasn’t always so.
Related families include the surname MILLER.
IN MEMORIAM: Malcolm Robert Schenot, 1915-2006
and Almeda Elizabeth (Laudenslayer) Schenot, 1919-2008
Both Almeda and Malcolm Schenot wore blue on the day we celebrated Mal’s 90th birthday in August 2005.
Malcolm and Almeda were pleased to help us reconstruct their family histories. Mal enjoyed being interviewed for the Chenot / Shenot / Schenot story. While his memory wasn’t sharp on every detail, his unique perspective lent an often humorous slant to the family lore. He gave us boxes of old photographs to keep (this generosity also freed up some closet space for them), asking only that we return his album of pictures from his soaring-plane flying days. Almeda told us stories about life at the Odd Fellows Orphan’s Home in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, where she grew up; stories about her Grandfather von Dreele and his fourth wife; stories of her mother talking about all their various relatives – and how she never really listened to her mother. Almeda had a gift for speaking the truth in an unvarnished way, which we truly enjoyed.
Malcolm died on December 18, 2006, at the age of 91. Almeda followed him scarcely more than a year later; she died at age 88 on January 3, 2008. We’re sad that our conversations with them are ended. Go with God, Malcolm and Almeda. We love you.
IN MEMORIAM: Eugene Joseph Jergens, 1924-2005
Eugene J. Jergens, called “Bud” from childhood, stands (second from right) with his seven siblings at a family reunion in June 2004. Bud died in Dayton, Ohio, on February 23, 2005.
Bud Jergens participated in our Jergens family history project. He obtained a copy of his parents’ marriage record from Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Dayton, and explained why getting married on a Thursday wasn’t unusual for a truck gardener and his bride in 1917. He took the time to write down the names of all his descendants and send them to us.
Bud once counseled the Queenealogist when she was still single: “You chase him until he catches you.” His advice worked.
Godspeed, Uncle Bud.
IN MEMORIAM: Rita Marie (Jergens) Schmidt, 1918-2009
Rita Marie (Jergens) Schmidt was a gracious and beautiful soul, and I was blessed to have her as my godmother. In the photo of the Jergens siblings (above), she stands in the middle, wearing a pink top and white slacks. Rita died in Hemet, CA, on July 6, 2009. We love and miss you, Aunt Rita.
IN MEMORIAM: Raymond Scheublin, 1919-2011
When we wrote to Ray Scheublin some years ago, seeking to learn more about his mother and her parents, he promptly responded by sending us a box filled with old photos. It was a treasure trove! Ray didn’t know why his Lavery grandparents were buried in two different cemeteries in New York City, or why his mother, named Elizabeth, was always known as “Lillian.” But he was pleased that we were interested in his family, and thrilled when we managed an amateur (but pretty successful) restoration of a faded photo of his mother and her sister Clara as young girls. In response to receiving our reprint of this photo, Ray wrote something like, “If I live to be 100 (and I’m rapidly approaching that), I will never know how you did this!”
Ray passed away at the age of 92 on December 30, 2011, in Portland, Maine. He was a son, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Ray also was a graduate of Lexington (MA) High School, and served in the Army Air Force during the Second World War. We never had the chance to meet face-to-face, nor even to talk on the phone (he had difficulty hearing). But his great generosity in sharing his family’s history with us revealed a sweetness of spirit we’ll never forget. God bless you, Ray.
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