Tag Archives: Family: Schwartz

Week 22 Prompt: At the Cemetery This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is “At the Cemetery.” I haven’t written about my Schwartz family in awhile, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to do so. Johann Schwartz and Margaretha Kremer are my second great-grandparents on my dad’s side. They, along with some of their children, are buried in Mt. Olivet in Aurora, Illinois. There is a large family stone, and each person has their own marker. Below are the photos of the markers I took back in 2011.

Week 12 Prompt: 12 This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is the number 12. My brain went to the year 1912, and I was curious to see who in my family died in 1912.

Week 11 Prompt: Large Family This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is “Large Family.”Coming from lines where the recent generations were small families, a “large family” to me is anything over three children! But I digress. When I saw this prompt, I immediately thought of one of my collateral families that I work with quite frequently. Since this is Week 11 of the challenge, the fact that this family consisted of 11 children is fitting.

Mary RYAN, of County Kilkenny, Ireland, is my third great-grandmother. She married John MILLETT and they had eight known children. At least three of the children left Ireland and settled in the US.

François KREMER (variant KRAMER or KREAMER) is my fourth great-grandfather. He and his wife, Catharina MÜLLER, had several children. So far, I have discovered that two of their children emigrated from Luxembourg to the United States, as did a granddaughter, who is my second great-grandmother.

This week I get to talk about one of my favorite families: SCHWARTZ.  It’s one of my favorites because they came from Luxembourg, which is such a wonderful place to research.  Despite the records being in German (old script at that) and/or French, neither of which I can actually read, records are abundant and readily available.  And, the women are kind enough to keep their maiden name with them at all times!  I’ve found a ton of information on this and my other Luxembourg families, in a very short period […]

This is my first Surname Saturday post, so I figured I’d start with my maiden name.  I’ll probably work in order by ahnetafel number just so I don’t lose my mind trying to remember what names I’ve done. My CAHILL clan hails from Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland.  Michael CAHILL, my third great-grandfather, it the earliest known/proven ancestor in that line.  At least two of his children left Ireland and settled in Aurora, Kane, Illinois (one son eventually moved to Chicago, Cook, Illinois).

This year I thought I’d ask GeneaSanta for some research help.  There are a few research projects I’d like to make some progress on, but I need some help.  Help could be in any form:  help with a research plan, access to records, cousins with information, or the people in question could simply fall from the sky (wait, that would be too easy and take the fun out of it).  Here are some of the cases I hope to crack in 2013.