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This gives us 8 bloodlines to consider in just one generation, and 16 bloodlines to consider within just 2 generations. Being beginners at family history, it should be pretty clear that researching between 8 and 16 bloodlines at any depth is a pretty tall order. Add to that mix the fact that we have married children, and each of our married children now has a new set of in-laws and grandparents-in-law that now come in to play through marriage. These new in-laws may not be directly related to Terry and Janet, but they do count in the lives of our children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Despite the added complexity of the additional in-laws, we have attempted to include as much information as we can in this collection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It’s obvious where the new lines are.</p> <p class=MsoBodyText align="center"><b><a href="TerryWeinberg4GenerationSheet.pdf">CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY TO TERRY'S 4 GENERATION SHEET</a></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyText align="center"><b><a href="../JANETS/JanetWheelerBuchanan4GenerationSheet.pdf">CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY TO JANET'S 4 GENERATION SHEET </a></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size="+2">Weinberg Overview</font></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyText>Where are the Weinberg’s in this collection of research? Nowhere is the short answer. The story of the Weinberg surname is really a short and dead-end sort of tale. I was born an Anderson by birth. I was with my mother Evonne Anderson when she divorced my father Robert Eric Anderson and chose to remarry. Roy John Weinberg was her new husband, and he chose to adopt us. That is how my 3 brothers and I became Weinberg’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We moved away from our Anderson father, and moved to Montana and became Weinberg’s.</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="21%"> </td> <td width="53%"><img src="../../artwork/CALENDAR.JPG" width="243" height="229" alt="Steves family Calendar"></td> <td width="26%"> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoBodyText> </p> <p class=MsoCaption><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc28231301'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc26695815'><b><font size="-1">This calendar page from 1997 made by Steve Weinberg shows the family relationships within our "Weinberg" & Anderson households. It looks pretty simple, but like anything involving families, it is any but simple</font></b></span></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText> Adoption does not affect your choice of lineage to follow. I had the choice to keep the Weinberg lineage as my own and research it, or go with the Anderson line, or go with both. I would find the Weinberg line completely acceptable to research and claim as my own lineage except for the following conditions. After much introspection, my choice of interests simply fell with my bloodline rather than my attached adopted surname. After a little research I found the Anderson lineage to be where my heart was and I simply made the personal choice of sticking with my birth father's family. The other situation that made researching Weinbergs tough was lack of information. Our particular branch of the Weinbergs is pretty thin on information.</p> <p class=MsoNormal><a name="_Toc28231587"><b><font size="+2">Anderson Overview</font></b></a></p> <p class=MsoBodyText>I have researched the Anderson lineage in my patriarchal line because I am in my heart an Anderson. If it wasn’t such a HUGE mess to change names at this stage of life, I am tempted to make a name change. My father and I are dead ringers for each other. I owe it to him to carry the flag and research his line. He is the first generation born in the U.S. His father Eric S Anderson was born in Sweden and made the migration to the U.S. in early 1924.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Bob-Dad has a tough lineage to research as Sweden is a different language, culture, and set of customs. Plus, everyone is dead that can answer those “key” questions that you need to know. We've made substantial progress in the last two years, and I'm very encouraged by what folks have contributed. Lots of progress.</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <div align="center"><img src="../../artwork/terryfamily.jpg" width="185" height="218" alt="The Family in 1955"></div> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoBodyText><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc28231302'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc26695816'><b><font size="-1">Robert Eric Anderson, Evonne, and Terry in 1955 in Flint Michigan. The Andersons went to live with Robert's parents in Flint Michigan until Robert got out of the Air Force and was able to get a job.</font></b></span></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size="+1">GILLE Overview</font></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyText>One of the newest pieces of information to surface in our search for family stories is the vast amount of research regarding the Gille ancestry. Several relatives in Sweden have provided literally 500 years of research that shows the Gille family living in a small set of villages in Sweden since the dawn of written history. For those of you who are geography challenged, just find the largest city in Sweden on a map (Stockholm). Move your finger up and to the right just a bit and you will find Uppsala, which is a region as well as a city. Surrounding Uppsala are place names like Österbybruk, Forsmark, Morkarla, and other small villages. These small "bruks", or completely self contained manufacturing sites, have been continously inhabited since the 1500's, and our Gille families have been living there continously as well since the 1500's. Österbybruk has been operating a forge for smelting since the earliest written days of Sweden. Today the town is similar to a living history museum with the old forge and mill sites preserved for posterity. Every family name begins somewhere and even though it has stayed constant in Sweden since the 1500's it did not apparently begin there. It looks as if Colas Gillet and Poncel Pierrou began the name as they left their native country of Belgium and migrated to Sweden in the late 1500's. It will be interesting to see where the search with the country of Belgium takes us.</p> <h2><a name="_Toc28231588">Schoepke Overview</a></h2> <p class=MsoBodyText>In my matriarchal line, I have worked on a number of the bloodlines. The first is the Schoepke lineage. My Grandfather, Harry Benjamin Schoepke, is a first generation American. </p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"> </td> <td width="49%"> <div align="center"><img src="../../artwork/augustelizabeth.jpg" width="161" height="222" alt="August & Elizabeth"></div> </td> <td width="35%"> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoBodyText><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc28231303'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc26695817'><b><font size="-1">August and Elizabeth Schoepke in 1885- 1886 after newly arriving in Canada from Russia/Poland</font></b></span></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText>His father left the old country of Germany/Poland/Russia and made his way with his wife Elizabeth to Canada between 1885-1888. In the middle part of the 1800’s, central Europe was pretty much a political mess. The modern day country of Poland, which sits right in the middle of Europe, ceased to exist after one of the many wars of the day. Poland was divided up amongst the countries of Germany, Russia, and Austria. It is hard to know exactly what the people of that day thought about which country they were “from”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our records show some that say Germany/Poland, and some say Russia/Poland, and yet others just say Germany or Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In any case, this is the most challenging line to research because of the paucity of records, and the difficulties caused by ceaseless wars and upheavals, famines, floods, plagues, and just bad geography. Add to this the fact that Great Grandpa Schoepke never communicated with anyone in the old country, nor allowed anyone to do so. He cut off ties with the old world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Whether he was running away from something, or merely running towards freedom, the end result was the same. He didn’t leave much of a trail to follow to the country of his birth. Most of the Schoepkes were farmers, laborers, and basic hard working salt-of-the-earth people. The kind of people anyone would be proud to be descended from.</p> <p class=MsoNormal><a name="_Toc28231589"><b><font size="+2">Kennett/Martin Overview</font></b></a></p> <p class=MsoBodyText>My grandmother, Corrine Amitis Kennett, and her line has proven the most fruitful of all to research. My grandmother’s people have been in the United States since before there was a United States. We were some of the first people kicked out of England for religious reasons. Manning’s and Martins were some of the folks that drove the great Reformation of the Church that resulted in the splintering of Catholicism in to all the various Protestant faiths. That after being responsible much earlier in history for helping to build such Catholic world landmarks as St Peters Basilica, and consolidating the Catholic Popes’ power and position in world politics. </p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> </td> <td><img src="../../artwork/MARTIN.JPG" width="100" height="113" alt="James Manning"></td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoBodyText><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><b><font size="-1">Reverand J</font></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc28231304'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc26695818'><b><font size="-1">ames Manning was born in 1738. James served as the founding President of Brown University. He was also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention that helped get the U.S. Constitution ratified in Rhode Island. James was also a confidant of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.</font></b></span></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Her people, in the surnames of Martin and Manning and Kennett, have been in the U.S. since the Mayflower came across the ocean in 1620 with those famous black hat pilgrims. The Martin line and the Manning line are mainstream American Revolutionary War Patriots; were involved in establishing the colonies; building the original churches in this country; getting the U.S. Constitution ratified and just about every other significant event in American history. And they just weren’t around at the time of these significant events, they were major sources of action that made these American events happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Manning’s and Martins were with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin before, during and after the Revolutionary War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And that’s just in the United States. </p> <p class=MsoBodyText>The Manning/Martin lines flow back over the ocean to the old world and go on for centuries, full of illustrious characters and famous deeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We are related to the Kings and Queens of England through the Manning/Martin lineage. King Henry I, who ruled about 1000 A.D. is in the family. The great Frankish King and Roman Emperor, Charlemagne, who was born in 747 A.D., is one of the family. Members of the family stood on the fields of Runnymead in England in 1215 A.D. and forced the signing of the Magna Charta, the original and first constitution and first bill of human rights.</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> </td> <td><img src="../../artwork/charlemagne.jpg" width="255" height="378" alt="Yes, we be related to Charlemagne"></td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoBodyText><a name="_Toc28231305"><b>C</b><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc26695819'><b><font size="-1">harlemagne, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, King of the Franks, and the first Christian King to unify Europe, was born in 747 A.D. We are directly related to Charlemagne through the Manning’s.</font></b></span></a><font size="-1"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></b></font></p> </div> <p> </p> <p align="center"><b>INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PROCEED FROM HERE:</b></p> <p align="center"><b><a href="TerryWeinberg4GenerationSheet.pdf">CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY TO TERRY'S 4 GENERATION CHART </a></b></p> <p>Press the <b><a href="july18terry/index.htm">Terry's Ancestry</a></b> button to go right to the names and the pedigree charts.</p> <p>Press the <b><a href="terrys.htm">Terry's</a> </b> button to return to the overview of Terry's family history.</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="34"> <tr> <td height="68" width="49%"> <div align="right"><a href="july18terry/index.htm"><img src="../../artwork/Terrys%20button%20Bar.jpg" width="180" height="80" border="0" alt="Return to Terrys overview"></a></div> </td> <td height="68" width="1%"><a href="TerryWeinberg4GenerationSheet.pdf"><img src="../../artwork/4GenerationSheetButton.jpg" width="180" height="80" border="0" alt="Terry's 4 Generation Charg"></a></td> <td height="68" width="50%"> <div align="left"><a href="terrys.htm"><img src="../../artwork/terrys%20ancestry%20button%20Bar.jpg" width="180" height="80" border="0" alt="go to Terrys Ancestry"></a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="23%" height="2"> </td> <td width="77%" height="2"> <div align="center"><b> © Ethos Publishing 2006</b></div> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>