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This part of the web site includes information for about 10,711 people in our family.
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Wondering if anything has changed since your last visit here? Check the updates list below.

To find a person you are interested in:

  • Look for his or her name in the name index or browse the surname list. (The surname list links back to specific families in the name index.)

  • Click on the name that interests you. Additional links to parents, children and source information will display if available. In some cases, other information such as vital statistics will also display for persons no longer living.

Notes

  • Women in the name index are generally listed by their maiden names.

  • If you don't know the maiden name, you could try checking the marriage list (.rtf document, viewable in most word-processing programs, 232kb, or WinZip archive, 62kb; last updated 29 Sept. 2008.

  • An electronic (text-only) version of The Ehresmann Chronicles, a family history published some years ago, is available at the Odessa Digital Library.

  • Also available: Deceased Family Members list (Excel workbook, 480kb, or WinZip archive, 135kb; last updated 3 Nov. 2004).
     Don't have Excel? Download a free viewer from Microsoft® or check out the OpenOffice.org suite (the download for this "open source" application is free but you will want a high-speed connection — it's a 119MB).

  • Some of the information here came from GEDCOM files provided by Del Paulson (Rieger line) and Anita Batz (Rau line). Other sources are cited in the material.

To use the GEDCOM file:

  1. Download the GEDCOM file to your computer.

  2. Decompress the GEDCOM file using WinZip (or similar compression application).

  3. Import the decompressed GEDCOM file into a genealogy database program such as Personal Ancestral File.

  • GEDCOM is a computer format designed to make sharing information between different genealogy database programs easier.

  • The GEDCOM file available here (compressed with WinZip, 860kb) includes all of the genealogical information on these web pages.
To contribute comments, corrections or information to this web site:

Updates:

29 Sept. 2008 Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated for: Grant Waldo family; Lorie Jill Nikolay Rattmann family; Betty Joan (Rieger) Lynn family; Andrew Jacob Kraemer family (including Lila Schell Kranzler); Della (nee Hendrickson) Mitchell family; Elenora (nee Rau) Hoffman family; Eugene RAU family; Alvin O. HEINRICH family; Jonathan and Reina (nee Wortley) Borud family. Links page updated.

1 June 2007

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated for: Sherman Wilson and Eleanor Long (nee Baxter); Robert Long families (1m. Audrey Marteney; 2m. Debra Szekely); and John A. and Christina (nee Wacker) Feickert family. Marriage list updated. Links page reorganized. Privacy notice updated.

10 Jan. 2007

Additional unconfirmed information about early Purdy line added (see Martin Jabez Purdy — source notes). John and Margaret (Weisser) Ehresman family revised to include information from the 1910 census. Adam and Rosina (Eisenbeis) Kappes family revised to include information from the 1910 census and obituaries for Adam Kappes Jr. and Fred Kappes. Marvin Rau family information from an obituary added. Date of death for Philip Rieger corrected (17 Aug. 1937). Faith Nowak, Jonathan Doyle Butler, Charlie David Leshovsky and Lisa Kramer added, and a second (duplicate) marriage record of Phyllis (Fried) and Daniel Schott deleted. (Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated.) Marriage list updated.


Photographs added (courtesy of the family of Lena Wagner): Group pictures with Philip and Christina (Rieger) Ehresman, Katherina (Rieger) Aldinger, Jacob Rieger, Edward Rieger, Emma Rieger, Eva Rieger, Johann Rieger (see lead Rieger photo page); Philip and Christina (Rieger) Ehresman (see Philip Ehresman page); and 1954 confirmation classes of Merricourt, N.D. and Selby S.D. (see Group Photos and Places page).

4 April 2006

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated for Thelma Borud family, and Matilda Rieger extended family including Hirning and Kurle lines (46 people added). Image of leaf from of Christian and Louisa (Ehresmann) Kappes family Bible added to Family Bible Entries page.

Oscar and Darlene (Rieger) Zambo wedding photograph identified. David and Betty (Rieger) Lynn wedding photograph identified.  Links to photographs of Delores Rieger moved from Philip Rieger Jr. page to Jacob Rieger page. On the Jacob Rieger page, portrait image identification of Delores Rieger corrected to Darlene Rieger. On the Philip Rieger Sr. page, the family photo with names overlaid has been deleted (the children may have been misidentified, original image still available). Marriage list updated.

13 Feb. 2006

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated for Lena Wagner. Group photograph of Philip Ehresman descendants added to Philip Ehresman photos page.

24 Sept. 2005

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated for Janet Riley-Dominic Flath family. Vernice Kay Rieger family updated. Spelling of Karen HARN corrected. Marriage list updated.

14 May 2005

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated for Lyle Jacob Rieger, Viola Feiock, Dora Ehresman, Albert Kirschenmann and Mary Totten families. McKenzie Julia added to Kim family.

These families updated with information from Long Lake Jubilee, Leola Centennial or Leola Jubilee books: Dockter, Jacob; Fauth, Jacob Sr. and Jr.; Fauth, John; Feickert, Johann Philip; Graff, Fred; Hoffman, Christoph; Hoffman, Erwin; Hoffman, Friedrich F.; Kappes, Adam; Ketterling, Jacob; Klipfel, Alvin; Klipfel, George Sr.; Klipfel, John G.; Klipfel, John J.; Merkel, Christian; Meyer, Fred; Rau, Fred; Wacker, Karl; Wagemann, Daniel; Wagemann, Ted. (About 475 names added since last update.) Marriage list updated.

16 Dec. 2004

Website moved to new host: www.sitesled.com

4 Nov. 2004

Remaining Totten descendants added from Samuel F. Totten Sr. Family, Carroll County, Oneida, Ohio, A Genealogy and History, 200th Anniversary Edition, May 22, 2001, Ralph Austin Totten, editor. Estimated total of names from this source added to the database: 5,020. Marriage list and Deceased Family Members list updated. Links page updated.

12 Sept. 2004

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated and revised to include additional people for these lines: Totten family (through the Martin Totten family); Barbara (Ehresmann) Wagemann family including Kammerer, Dockter, Erlenbusch and Wacker (about 226 more people added); Wagner family (about 25 more people added); Heinrich family (about 46 more people added); Hoffman family (2 people added); Rau family (about 62 people added); Hannah Grace added to Bucher family.
Marriage list and Deceased Family Members list updated.

3 May 2004

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated for the Christiansen family and Erwin Wagner. Totten descendants added from Samuel F. Totten Sr. Family, Carroll County, Oneida, Ohio, A Genealogy and History, 200th Anniversary Edition, May 22, 2001, Ralph Austin Totten, editor. (This is an ongoing project that is about half completed, through the Thomas Hawkins Totten family. About 2,400 names have been added so far.)

16 Aug. 2003

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated to include Veronika Souzek and additional information for Darwin Aldinger and Howard Schlinsky; additional information added for early Totten line.

30 July 2003

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated, immigration information added for some individuals: Ehresmann, Rau, Rieger lines.
Naturalization records added to Documents section.

22 July 2003

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated, new information added to Rau line: Rothenbach family. Marriage list updated.

25 June 2003

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated and corrected for Purdy line: Bennett, Gohlke, Hoeth, Noth, Souzek, Wilson.

5 June 2003

Genealogy pages and GEDCOM file updated to include Robin Butler and Jeremiah Nies.

Links to photos added to genealogy pages.

Wisconsin Historical Society links updated on Links page.

22 March 2003

Various genealogy pages revised and updated. Marriage list updated and sorting problem corrected. GEDCOM file updated.

25 Nov. 2002

GEDCOM file and marriage list added.

url for Odessa Digital Library corrected in St. Petersburg index citations.

22 Nov. 2002

Genealogy pages added.

Nov. 2001

Web site launched.

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