Wilhelm Winkelman was born in 1828 and married Dorothea Maria Bergman. Their son, Barney Henry (1862-1933), was born in Addison, Illinois and married Alvina Goede (1864-1916). Carl Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Kruse (1845-1918) was born in Ludershagen or Mecklenburg, Germany, son of Christoph and Dina Kruse. He married Sophis Maria Wilkin (1848-1904) and their children were born in Chicago. Descendants of these families lived in Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,...

Descendants and ancestry of Heinrich Kruse (Henry Kruse), who emigrated from Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1860, settling in Iowa. Includes the related families of Lemke, Kaiser and others.

Abraham Owen Thomas, son of Abraham Owen Thomas and Elizabeth Mereidth, was born in 1847 in Gellyolen Penran, Montgomeryshire,Wales. He married Mary Emma Evans, daughter of Hugh Vychan Evans and Margaret Jones, in 1875. They emigrated in 1882 and settled in Iowa.

Theodore Evert Finley was born in Illinoiis in 1904. He married Bessie Mildred Norton in 1924 and they had 6 children. Information on their descendants, ancestors and siblings are included in this material. Ancestors are traced back to colonial times on the Finley line. A section of material on the descendants of John Finley who lived in Ireland about 1600 is also included although the family does not seem to be related to Theodore's Finley line....

Henry Busse, Sr. (1832-1933) married Marie Ludke, and the family emigrated in 1873 from Germany to Nicollet, Minnesota, and settled in 1875 on land near Appleton, Minnesota. Descendants lived in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Washington, California and elsewhere.

Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of Johann Jurgen Kahre. He was born ca. 1696. He died 21 Nov 1765. He married Anne Katherine Steinmeier 19 Nov 1722 in Kummerdingsen, Germany. She was born ca. 1696 and died 13 Mar 1740. They were the parents of five children, one of which immigrated to America. He married Katherine Maria Kuhlmeyer 4 Dec 1740. She was born ca. 1706 and died 5 Dec 1743. They were the parents of two children. He married...

Ernest Heilman (1812-1870) and four brothers (Benjamin, Karl, Edward, August) and a sister (Rosina Heilman Welz) emigrated from Schlasing, Germany to the United States. Descendants lived in Indiana and elsewhere.

Traces branches of the Hill, Hanning and McLinden families to probable immigrant ancestors who came to New England, Ohio and New Jersey from England, Germany and Ireland respectively. Descendants lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, Florida, California and elsewhere.

Johannes Henkel (1814-1890) was born at Breidenstein, Hesse, Germany, the son of Johann Jacob Henkel (1782-1840). He married Katharina Plack (1825-1903) in 1844 at Wolzhausen. They had five children, 1845-1857. The family immigrated to the United States in 1861 and settled at Germantown, Ohio. They migrated to Pendleton, Indiana, ca. 1866 and to Springfield, Ohio, in 1871. Johannes and Katharina Henkel died at Springfield, Ohio. Descendants of their...