Traces the family of Johann Heinrich Stotz, who was born in Germany in 1745. He married Elizabeth Schnabel and they had five children. His descendants moved to Russia and later several immigrated to the United States.

Walter Ker was born in 1656 in Scotland, where he was a parishioner in the Dalsert, Lanarkshire parish. He and his wife Margaret emigrated to America in 1685. They eventually settled at Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, where he died in 1748. Margaret Ker " ... was born in 1651 and died October 1, 1734. She may have been the daughter of James Johnstone. Walter and Margaret are buried on a hilly point one-half mile east of the present Tennant...

Pedigrees of families related to the Heymanns of Kaltenholzhausen, Hessen-Nassau, Germany, which emigrated to Ohio during the mid-19th century. Most lived in the vicinity of Wiesbaden. Family data is from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Two of the children of Johann Wilhelm Heymann (1761-1836) and Katherina Dorothea Hölzer (1776-1823) settled in Huron co., Ohio. Emphasis is on the German ancestry, not on their American descendants.