A while back, my dad came up for a visit, and he brought with him the book, The Sommerer Family that many of you probably saw at the family reunion some years ago. He spent more or less equal amounts of time looking through it and complaining about it while he was here.
It doesn’t actually have a whole lot of information about our side of the family (roughly a dozen pages out of 250). Most of it is about Uncle Ralph’s side of the family. But there was enough information for me to get a little interested and to sign up at ancestry.com for a month.
Anyway, I put together a page like our Family Members page, but going the other direction. You can find it in the “tools” menu at the top of the page. The page is called Ancestors.
Lloyd Jr. says
Okay, someone look at that and tell me how Corey (Curt or Gail) Duenckel is related to me. Is he, like a “third cousin removed once and pushed a little to the left” or something like that?
Julie says
“you are brother’s and sisters in
christ”
cleo says
I believe that Lolly is right. That is about the only way that you could be directly related to him. I went into Ancestry.com marriages and couldn’t find this marriage between our grandfather and Rosina Duenkel. It should have been there because we know he married the daughter of the man who gave him the 10 cents to help him cross the Moreau river. I have to go back and check again. I am sure Lolly is right. Lolly I enjoy your articles please write more.
cleo says
He could be related to you through the Becks or the Engelbrechts or the Meiers or the Popps of schmidts or Gerlings, or Hoffmans,or Somebody named Gundelfinger but how are you related to those people.Sorry I’m no help. I dont think you are related to him.
Aunt Lolly says
Our Great grampa (Johnn Mathias Sommerer) married Rosina B. Duenckel.. I guess that is how we are related to the Duenckels.
Christina Rowland says
Wow! Grandma died three years before she was born!
Lloyd Jr. says
Hey! Typing is hard! Anyway, if you don’t like it, you can just go change it.
Julie Baker says
it is not under my tool drop down box.:( But I found this link by using keyword!!! (I’m on chrome) It should be there right???
Julie Baker says
You can find it in the “tools” menu at the top of the page. The page is called Ancestors.
Julie Baker says
But Ancestors is not there??!!!
Julie Baker says
I going to quit now before I get kicked out of here!!!LOL Love you all!
Lloyd Jr. says
You weren’t crazy. I made the page, but I put it in the wrong menu. It’s sort of amazing that we could go 6 days before someone pointed it out. The page is actually in the tools menu now.
Naomi Vetter says
I noticed…but I thought I just didn’t know how to use the site right to find Ancestors. I’m still learning and learning and learning and…does anyone have a recipe for “Computer Smarts Stew”?
Julie Baker says
thanks!
Christina Rowland says
most people didn’t notice because they could just click the link through the e-mail to get to the page…..but thanks for fixing it Lloyd!