Kurt's Genealogy Korner
"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves :
the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the
burgeoning wood brings forth
and the season of spring comes on. So of men one
generation springs forth and another ceases." - Homer
Sixteen Surnames - My Fifth Generation
Finkenzeller, Wieting, Charter, Losee, Simmons, Taylor, Hennelly, Kelly,
McCormick, Garvey, Liesch, Diderrich, Steinkellner, Hafner, Drzonek, and Urbanowski
My Genealogy's Most Wanted
Information on Karl Finkenzeller
c1848 - c1900
shoemaker and lithographer from Bas-Rhin, France and New York City, NY.
The Finkenzeller Family DNA Surname Project - e-mail me below
Colonial American Ancestors
Connecticut and New York: - Austin, Barlow, Birdsall, Clark, Close, Comstock, Denham, Fancher, Feake, Finch, Garnsey, Jessop, Knapp, Lockwood, Losee, Merwin, Miller, Olmstead, Palmer, Platt, Reynolds, Ride, Rundel, Scott, Sherwood, Smith, St.John, Strutt, Terrell, Tinker, Tyler, Ufford, Wood.
Austrian Ancestors
Oberoesterreich - Steinkellner family of Koenigsweissen, Oberoesterreich, Austria. Related families include: Himmelbauer, Camauer, Payreder, Lindner, Lechner, Oberreder, Puchberger, Rametsburger, and Weissensteiner.
German Ancestors
Duchy of Oldenburg/Hannover - Castens, Ehlers, Flothmann, Gutkese, Harms, Heinrich, Hoyer, Koehne, Kothe, Kracke, Meyers, Ostermeier, Puvogel, Schuessler, Seekamp, Textorius, Von Doersten, Vollers, Wieben.
Alsace-Lorraine - Karl Finkenzeller (1848-?) of Wissembourg, Bas Rhin, France and New York City, New York; shoemaker and lithographer; son of Karl Finkenzeller and Franziska Weber.
Bavaria - Johann Hafner (1826-1898) and Petronella Sonner(1826-1897) of Lenting, Oberbayern, Bayern, Germany. Johann may be the son of Josef Hafner and Julianna Schneider of Demling, a village outside Lenting.
Irish Ancestors
Northern Ireland - Charter(s), Egan, Taylor, and Wall families.
Republic of Ireland - Brown, Burke, Connelly/Conley, Garvey, Hennelly, Kelley, McCormick, Lawler, Quinn, Ryan, Tarpey.
Luxembourg Ancestors
Canton of Capellen - Arendt, Bivert, Deckers, Diderrich, Fischbach, Hansen, Holtgen, Krier, Lambert, Liesch, Maey, Muller, Pous, Rausch, Ries, Simon.
Canton of Esch sur Alzette - Beches, Bettendorf, Bivert, Clement, Dickes, Hanen alias Guden, Hansen, Jost, Krier, Schmidt, Theis, Wildschutz, Weukers.
Canton of Redange - Karielsner, Ketter, Krueger, Martinus, Simon and Weis.
Canton of Remich - Diderrich, Floerchinger, Fonck, Milbach, Neu, Kieffer, Reuter, Schwarmes, Thillen, and Thiltges.
Polish Ancestors
Kujawsko-Pomorskie - Drzonek, Kopekow, Kruszkowski, Maciejewski, Pakulka, and Straszewski.
Posen(?) - Fromholz, Kubacki, Maultzmann, Schmigelski, and Urbanowski.
Portuguese Ancestors
Mainland Portugal - John Simmons (1835-1914) of Setubal, Portugal and Gloucester, MA. Inventor of the 'Simmons Squid Jig.'
Azores Islands - Maria Ursula Fernandes (c1843-1927) of the Azores Islands (possibly Flores), and Gloucester, MA, daughter of Manuel Fernandes and Ana Teles and wife of John Simmons.
This page is dedicated to my grandfather, Jerome McCormick, whose family stories and curiosity about the past ignited my interest in genealogy
Flags were produced by the Flags of the World group, and especially Edward Mooney at Mooney's MiniFlags
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Kurtis Wieting
Created 4/26/97. Updated 07/02/07.
