Kautz Family Tree – Part III – John Jacob Kautz
As I mentioned in my article, A Wealth of Knowledge and Information, today I am focusing on my Kautz side of the family tree.
John Jacob Kautz is my great-great-grandfather and the last generation I have a photograph of in the Kautz side of my family tree. He was born in July of 1828 in Baden-Baden, Germany to parents, Christian Kautz and Anna Marie Pfeiffer.
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Kautz Family Tree – Part II – Christian L. Kautz
As I mentioned in my article, A Wealth of Knowledge and Information, today I am focusing on my Kautz side of the family tree.
Christian L. Kautz is my great-great grandfather. He was born in November of 1855 on the Kautz Family Farm in Dupage County to parents, John Jacob Kautz and Saloma Hansel.
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Kautz Family Tree – Part I -Charles Joseph Kautz
As I mentioned in my article, A Wealth of Knowledge and Information, today I am focusing on my Kautz side of the family tree.
Charles Joseph Kautz, my great-grandfather, was born on October 7, 1892 in Dupage County, Illinois. He was the son of Christian L. Kautz and Anna Barbara Teiml Kautz. Charles was born on the Kautz Family Farm which was right on the Dupage and Kane county lines in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. In the photographs below, Charles is pictured as a child with his siblings. The first photograph, (left) was taken in approximately 1896. Pictured are: Charles (sitting), his half-brother Albert (standing left) and his half-brother Henry (standing right). In the second photograph (right) Charles is pictured with his sister, Helen in approximately 1903. (more…)
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Treasure Chest Thursday – A Wealth of Knowledge and Photographs
I first began researching my family tree after the death of my grandfather. I had always been interested in the family stories and information. My passion for history encouraged this. However, I hadn’t really focused on the evidence and background side of my family stories until my grandfather was gone. See my article, The Family Story Teller for more on this. Starting out on this side of the family tree would have been an almost impossible task if I hadn’t tracked down my feature for Treasure Chest Thursday, my grandfather’s first cousin who lived more than a thousand miles away and whom I hadn’t seen in many years. His knowledge, memory, and his great respect for details were more than appreciated and helpful. The best part though? The box full of old family photographs that brought my family tree to life and provided me with a greater wealth of information and a feeling of connection to my ancestors than I had thought possible.
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Tombstone Tuesday – Pitman Family of St Charles Missouri
My family and I have moved all over the southern and eastern US over the past ten years because we were in the military. We have lived in places that I never would have imagined living and others that I thoroughly enjoyed. We have settled near St Louis, a city that neither my husband nor I come from. When I started doing my family tree research, I was shocked to realize that many of our relatives lived in the St Louis area at some point and many of them had lived here for quite a long time. We had no idea! One of the greatest finds that I have tracked down in this area for my husband’s side of the family is the Old Pitman Cemetery located in St Charles, Missouri.
