Tag Archives: Family: Reeder

52 Ancestors #29: German Brick Walls Revisited

Week 29 Prompt: Challenging This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is”Challenging.” First thought—brick walls! Ten years ago (almost to the date!), I wrote about all of my German brick walls at that time. They were all tied to an immigrant ancestor, and were mainly self-imposed due […]

Surname Saturday – REEDER (France / Georgia / Iowa)

Mary Eva REEDER (or LASSER) is my second great-grandmother. I am not certain if Reeder or Lasser is her maiden name because each of the records I currently have list one or the other. I suppose it’s possible that she was married once before and […]

Surname Saturday – Stoffel (Germany / Illinois)

The earliest known Stoffel in my line is Carl STOFFEL, who was born in or near Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany, on 16 September 1855. I believe that he and his wife Mary Braun, were married in Germany and arrived in the US together in 1884. They […]

Surname Saturday: Rottman (Bavaria / Georgia / Iowa / Illinois)

Ah, now we get to talk about my crazy ROTTMAN family.  The earliest known ancestor is Philip ROTTMAN, my second great-grandfather.  He apparently came to the US from Bavaria, Germany.  This family has been difficult to research for many reasons, but mainly because they moved […]

Fearless Females – Brick Walls

Back in 2010, in honor of Women’s History Month, Lisa Alzo created a list of writing prompts for each day during the month of March.  I didn’t participate in 2010, so I’m going to take the opportunity to participate this year, since Lisa was kind […]

SNGF – “Heritage Pie” Chart

This week’s challenge from Randy is: List your 16 great-great-grandparents with their birth, death and marriage data (dates and places). Determine the countries (or states) that these ancestors lived in at their birth and at their death. For extra credit, go make a “Heritage Pie” […]

SNGF – Ethnicity

Randy’s challenge for this evening is as follows: List your 16 great-grandparents in pedigree chart order. List their birth and death years and places. Figure out the dominant ethnicity or nationality of each of them. Calculate your ancestral ethnicity or nationality by adding them up […]

German Brick Walls

The topic for the 22nd edition of Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy is roadblocks and breakthrough encountered during your genealogy research.