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August 15, 2018
Last updated: 2020-November-25 Material Support Maryann and I would like to say a special “thank you” to the following people. They have kindly supplied documents, photographs, financing, and/or ran “errands” to places that would difficult for us to get to Read more…
August 6, 2018
Last updated: 2018-August-11 A little history: Many years ago, my father (Adolph Geiser, Jr.) began researching his family tree. This was before the age of the Internet, so his research was limited to family members and whatever data he could Read more…
July 7, 2020
Created: 2020-July-07 Last Updated: 2020-July-07 I’ve come across a bit of a head-scratcher problem. First, some background … Victor Paetzell is my grandfather. I have his birth date as 1/8/1899. Paul Paetzell is Victor’s brother. I have his birth date Read more…
April 29, 2020
Created: 2020-April-27 Last updated: 2020-April-29 The S.S. Vaderland was the ship on which my grandfather, Adolph Geiser Sr. and his mother, Dorothy Lechner Giesse/Geiser came to the United States. They docked in New York City on May 15th, 1909. I Read more…
December 27, 2018
Updated: 2018-December-27 We found the above newspaper article, recently, when visiting the library at the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA. It obviously tells a sadder tale than the “facts” recorded in our genealogical database. Our database has him listed as Read more…
December 23, 2018
Last Updated: 2018-Dec-24 Susannah Templeton Cochran Susannah Templeton is the great-great-grandmother of my aunt (she married John Cochran). Several people have said that Susannah is the daughter of my (Wayne) great-great-great-grandfather, Baltus Templeton (I know, I love the name, too!). So Read more…
September 13, 2018
Updated: 2018-November-7 Rudolph Geiser / Giesse immigrated to the United States in the early 1900’s. His wife, Dorothy Geiser / Giesse (nee Lesner) immigrated shortly afterward. Although it was not the first place Rudolph and Dorothy G lived after they arrived, he Read more…
August 6, 2018
Last Updated: 2018-December-11 This document will try to answer many of the questions that visitors to geiserweb.com/genealogy will have about the database. Is the data 100% accurate? The short answer is “no.” We are trying our best to find and Read more…