Category: Mueller genealogy
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Three Generation Wedding Day
My paternal grandparents Harold Clarke Mueller and Frances Lois Mangels were married in Chicago Illinois 94 years ago today ~ August 24th, 1930. Harold’s parents, my paternal great-grandparents Alfred Jacob Mueller and Ellen Gertrude Clarke were also married in Chicago, also on August 24th. Their wedding took place in 1907.…
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Is DNA the Way to Jacob?
I recently attended an interesting webinar about doing DNA research. The presenter proposed that one step toward identifying cousins who might lead back to our MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor) was by finding our grandparents’ siblings, their children and grandchildren, and then finding our great-grandparents’ siblings, children and grandchildren. Despite…
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A Week of Ancestors
May 19 to May 25 BIRTHS: What is about Jennie that makes me want to know more about her life? She appears in several other family trees on Ancestry, but the fact fields tend to be incomplete and sources are scarce. Eugenia Schmitt was born in Cincinnati on 21 May…
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A Week of Ancestors
May 12 to May 18 BIRTHS: Although there are a number of births on this week’s calendar, the name that caught my eye first was that of John Nicholas Schmitt. Six years older than my great-great grandmother Elisa, big brother John was born in Hellimer, Moselle, France on the 16th…
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