Help Wanted

  • Help Wanted,  Senger

    Auguste Alvina Caroline Kunz

    It was another one of those days a genealogist only dreams of… one, when a huge brick wall comes tumbling down. Today my daughter and I were reading through our latest bunch of 11 Family History Center tapes, hoping to eek out a simple clue regarding our Prussian German forebears. We had already viewed 9 tapes when on our 9th tape we saw a birth/baptism record for Eduard Ferdinand Kunz.  The name Ferdinand Kunz had appeared as being in attendance at my great aunt (Tante) Ella’s baptism.  Did we have the right family? As readers of ManyRoads may already know, Auguste Kunz (my Uhr-Oma) on my grandmother’s line has been…

  • Help Wanted,  ManyRoads

    Clyde Ross- photos found

    If you know of anyone related to and/or seeking images of a young Clyde Ross born in Cambridge Illinois, USA in the year 1896, we have 5 original photos of Clyde. The photos show Clyde at the ages of 3 months through 7 years (approx.). We found these wonderful photos in an antique store in Denver and simply could not let the collection be broken up any more than it already had been.  Besides, the images of Clyde growing up simply charmed us.           If you are related to and are seeking images of Clyde, we’d love to send digital copies of Clyde’s photos back to…

  • Help Wanted,  Thoughts

    Recipes

    Does anyone have access to West and East Prussian German recipes? I would like to gather a collection of food recipes that were local to the Germans who once populated the region of Europe between Danzig Marienburg, and Koenigsberg. Please contact me directly with any recipes or food names that you might have/ remember. I will eventually place everything I gather in a database here for all to see, read and copy. I suspect that might take a while and that assumes, of course, I obtain any recipes at all. But given it is the holiday season, and this is the time for foods, I thought I’d ask! Happy holidays…

  • Help Wanted,  Thoughts

    DNA based genealogy search

    Which genetic genealogy DNA service is best?  This is the question with which I am currently wrestling. Perhaps one or more of our knowledgeable readers has some insights to share. I certainly would appreciate experienced observations and insights into our dilemma. Here are the basic objectives of our DNA search: We’d like information and insight on any Native American information on the male Rabideau and female Deyo line (I do not currently have access to male Deyo DNA); we also seek information on the background of both lines in Europe and before. We seek information on the Senger- Recht matrilineal lines; there is no DNA material available for either line…

  • Help Wanted,  Henss

    John Hall- Revolutionary Mysteries

    I am currently working on a portion of the Henss family and am ‘visiting’ Virginia/ Maryland at the time of the Revolutionary War. The person I am closely examining is a Mister John Hall; his wife is Mary Magdelene Smith. I just love it when the names are so incredibly unique! So here goes, I have three mysteries! Please use our Contact page to let me know if you have any firm data or information to help solve these! Mystery 1 I found a document (located in the National Archives) addressed to ‘some guy’ named George Washington. The document is transcribed as the following in Letters to Washington and Accompanying…

  • Deyo,  Help Wanted,  Our Families

    Deyo genealogy

    Based on data and input I have received from various people, I believe I have traced  and documented a “plausible” genealogy for the Joseph Deo family leading back to France in the late 1600s. If anyone is interested in reviewing the tree and commenting on what I have pieced together, please contact me.

  • Help Wanted,  Histories,  WW2

    They went to war…

    In addition to Luise and Erich Senger who both served in the Deutsche Luftwaffe during World War 2, numerous friends and family members of the Senger family were either inducted into or volunteered for German military service. The fortunate “souls” survived the war. Below are the photos of those we have in our collection. If you happen to know any of these individuals, please contact us. We’d love to hear from you. Click on an image to receive a larger picture, and learn a little about what we know of their fate.

  • Help Wanted,  Senger,  WW2

    Does anyone know Tommy?

    Tommy was an English war prisoner who spent most of World War 2 working on the Senger family farm in Zeyersvorderkampen. He was first captured by German forces at Dunkirk in 1940; and, he spent more than 4 years of the war working on and about the Senger farm.  As you might gather from the photo, he was a good looking young man in a town with few young men during a time of total war and mobilization. We would love to hear from him or his family.

  • Deyo,  Help Wanted,  Our Families

    The Deyo Mystery… is solved!!

    Note: I have solved this mystery and established the link.  John’s parent’s were, in fact, Joseph Dion (Deo- Deyo) and Julia (Julie/ Julienne) Denis (Denys, Lafay, LaFaille, Dennis). The most commanding piece of obvious genealogical evidence is immediately below (John’s death certificate). As for the rest of the story, I am writing and plan to post a more complete history. My previous post on this subject is below: I am searching to find the parents of one John Deyo. I can find an obvious (but incorrect!) link from him to a set of parents identified in the New Paltz area of New York as Christian Deyo… I think we now…

  • Help Wanted

    a little help???

    Unfortunately my LDS ev. Church books for Zeyer – Ellerwald (West Prussia) are reaching an end…I’d love to hear from you if you have any pointers  as to where I might look for earlier data (pre-1774). I am looking for information on the following family members: Esther Adelgunde (geb Grindemann) Kiehl (Graudenz Tiegenhof area) 1810-1850 Erdmann Kiehl (Graudenz) 1810-1850 Anna Christina Wilhelm (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1720-1800 George Poek (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1720-1800 Wilhelm Landig (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) c. 1720-1800 Heinrich Heyn (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1720-1800 Michael Saenger (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1700-1780 Judith Saenger geb. Sufust???(Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1720-1790 …mark UPDATE: I just received the following note: Hallo! Für Ellerwald waren die evangelische Kirchen in Elbing zuständig:…

  • Expulsion - Vertriebenen,  Help Wanted,  Histories,  WW2

    HELP: Deutsche Vertriebene- German Expulsions

    Hello Readers, Because of the great shortage of information and histories associated with the expulsions of Germans from Eastern Europe after World War 2, I am placing a call to anyone willing to share their family story with others. Please contact me (use our contact page) with any histories that you may have from family members or elsewhere that involve the expulsion, flight or ethnic cleansing of Germans following the second world war.  I will place the information you send (assuming it is not politically motivated) on the internet for others to view and share. It is my hope to contribute a bit of our past in order to help…

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