Phillip Frederick Eichelberger
Phillip Frederich Eichelberger was born on April 17, 1693 in Ittlingen, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. He was one of nine children born to parents John E. and Maria Barbara Eichelberger. He went by his full name while living in Germany and then by his middle name Frederick throughout his time in America.
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Family Tree Research Interest
Genealogy and researching family trees has become quite popular. Why the interest in tracing ancestral lines? This was not necessarily a popular hobby in the past. This can be seen by how difficult it can often be to track down your ancestors. Vital records were not kept formally by the government until recently and it is not altogether normal to find family trees all put together and complete from 100 or 200 years ago. Why then, has genealogy become so popular now? (more…)
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Census Records
A great resource for family tree researchers are census records. In the United States, we can access census records in some areas as far back as 1790 and currently as late as 1930. Census records remain sealed to the public for 72 years after they are taken. While early census records will often fail to provide too much information and often not even the names of anyone except the head of the household, later census records can provide a wealth of information for the family tree. (more…)
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Very Little Information
I recently did family tree research for someone who have very little information to start with. Her recently deceased mother had gone by many different names over time, had moved many times to multiple states, and had little to no communication with her family. She knew nothing about her mother’s side of the family and wasn’t even sure what her mother’s legal name was. With this sort of information to start off with, researching a family tree can seem like a no-go right from the beginning. (more…)
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Dr. John Denis Eichelberger (1879-1943)
John Denis Eichelberger (Phillip, John, George, John, George, Gardner) was born on June 25, 1879 in Missouri. He was one of three children born to parents Gardner Spangler Eichelberger and Mary Ellen Hickey.
