I am doing my posts for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2015 out of order; this one should have been done is September.  I have been traveling back and forth, to and from Pennsylvania to look after elderly family and blogging has had to take a back seat to family responsibilities. One of the themes […]

Christopher Wippel was my fourth great-grandfather and he was a brother of Johann Wippel, who was also my fourth great-grandfather. Yes, you have correctly deduced that my third great-grandparents, Charles (Carl) and Catharine Wippel were first cousins. Christoph Wippel was born 2 December 1802 in Bobenheim Roxheim, Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Rhineland Pfalz, Germany. His older […]