Tag Archive | Stephan
Anton Stephan – Following Bunches of Hunches – 52 Ancestors 2015 #30
This week the optional theme for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is “Challenging.” I guess that is one of the things that I enjoy about genealogy – the challenges. Truly, it wouldn’t be any fun for me if the ancestor quest didn’t include endless mysteries to be solved. Sometimes family history is intuitive and, even, […]
Peter Elsasser of Vicksburg, Mississippi – Are You the Same as My Great, Great Granduncle? 52 Ancestors 2015 #12
This week I am chronicling the search for my great-grandmother’s Bavarian family. This is a long read with a lot of detail on the resources that I drew upon to find the place of origin for my mother’s mother’s mother’s family. I am especially interested because this is the source of my mitochondrial DNA (deep […]
Charles Solger – Did He Leave One Family to Start Another? – 52 Ancestors #19
Entry #19 I am a week behind with my post. I have just returned from vacation in Costa Rica. Pura vida! My great-grandmother Julia Magdalena Stephan was married before she wed my great-grandfather, Gottlob Maier. It is her first husband, Charles P. Solger, who is the subject of my week 19 post. Julia (sometimes Lena […]
Francis Stephan – A Teen Presumed Drowned – 52 Ancestors #12
Entry #12 This week’s entry will be short – it is a brief and tragic tale without a lot of detail. The little bit that I know comes from the story that has been passed down through several generations. To date, I have found only two records for Francis Stephan, my great-grandmother’s brother; the 1850 […]