Showing posts with label Garnsee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garnsee. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

My Heritage Pie

I know I'm a little late to this but here is my Heritage Pie. Randy Seaver first blogged about this on
16 July 2011on his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your "Heritage Pie" Chart. The following 'pie' shows the distribution of the birthplaces of my 16 great-great-grandparents.



Birthplaces: 8 in Germany, 2 in Canada, 2 in England, and 4 in United States (Rhode Island)

Paternal great-great Grandparents -
Joseph Goff Grant - born 1 Aug 1819, No. Providence, Rhode Island
Lydia Boomer Leach - born 13 May 1827, Warwick, Rhode Island
Ernest Lord Mellor - born 2 Mar 1832, Chadderton, Lancashire, England
Hannah Worthington  - born 7 May 1833, Royton, Lancashire, England
Zophar Skinner  - born 12 Sept 1843, Valley Falls, Rhode Island
Eliza Jane Carpenter  - born 12 April 1847, Coventry, Rhode Island
John William Betts  - born June 1844, Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada
Susan Fulton - born 13 Feb 1839, Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada
Maternal great-great-Grandparents -
Johann Martin Veith - born 9 April 1825, Altdorf, Wurttemberg, Germany
Anna Maria Heller - born 4 Oct 1828, Hudlach, Wuttemberg,Germany
Joseph Zeilerborn 21 Dec 1826, Wuttemberg, Germany
Anna Margaretha Mack - born June 1827, Wuttemberg, Germany
Christoph Badendick - born Germany
Friederike Spierling - born Germany
Gottfried Zerull - born 4 March 1812, Garnseedorf, West Prussia
Wilhelamine Kroening - born about 1835 in West Prussia

Sunday, May 8, 2011

My maternal line

Dorothy Minna Veith
My mother, Dorothy Minna Veith,  was born in Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey on 19 August 1922. She died in Pompton Plains, Morris County, New Jersey on 17 November 2006. She was 84 years old.
Minna Bertha Badendick

My grandmother, Minna Bertha Badendick was born in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey on 19 November 1893. She died in Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey on 29 April 1977. She was 83 years old.

Bertha Helene Zerull
My great-grandmother, Bertha Helene Zerull was born in Garnsee, West Prussia on 2 April 1864. She died in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey on 21 February 1931. She was 66 years old.