Genealogy of the Smith, Staebell, Voegele, and Mesker Families

What's New on This Website

24-Sep-2005
- New page: The Mystery of Christine Nuwer and Her Diary
- New immigrant ships added for the years 1837 through 1840, with many matches to families from Alsace
- A work in progress: Records from the Catholic Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Williamsville, New York
01-Sep-2005
- Warnings about the business practices of GeneaNet, the company that sells the 1836 census products
29-May-2005
- New page: Erie County, NY - Surrogate Records (Wills, etc.)
  - Surrogate records for the Hock family
16-May-2005
- More information about the Brig Ann and Emilee, the ship that brought the Hock family to America.
- Information about the ship Meta, which brought the Drummer family to America.
03-May-2005
- More information about George Drummer and Anna Heidorn and their children, including their immigrant ship.
02-May-2005
- New surname page: The Hock Family
- New marriage record from Williamsville NY: Claudius Hock and Anna Maria Rusch
24-Apr-2005
- Added more information about the family of Joseph Stabell and Mary Anne Fix.
- New photo: Joseph Stabell and Mary Anne Fix (from a charcoal drawing)
13-Mar-2005
- Added four new generations of ancestors for Peter Schneider (1792-1872), and their families, all living in Nousseviller, Moselle (Lorraine), France
16-Nov-2004
- New descendancy trees:
  - The descendants of Christopher Balthasar and Suzanna Lobenicht
  - The descendants of Henry Balthasar and Regina Heintz
- Added the family of John Balthasar and Bertha Ostertag, with links to Bertha and her parents
30-Oct-2004
- "History of My Life" by Beatrice Mesker (1909)
- Photo family trees: Balthasar - Staebell - Voegele
28-Oct-2004
- Anna Balthasar's Family Photo Album
- New page: Our Immigrant Ancestors from Germany and Alsace (1830-1883)
10-Oct-2004
- New pages with names from burial sites of these cemeteries in Erie County, NY:
  - St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery in Alden, NY
    - Updated the Alden Families page with information from this cemetery
  - Pine Hill Catholic Cemetery in Cheektowaga, NY
  - Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery in Williamsville, NY
12-Sep-2004
- Reorganized the photographs.
- Added new photographs of Staebell, Voegele, Ott, and Nuwer families.
- Added some especially old photographs:
- Replaced a number of photographs with higher-quality copies. Of special note:
  - Voegele Family 1919
  - Catherine Ott Voegele 1902
02-Sep-2004
- Created this "What's New" page, to highlight new features as they are added.
- The page with the list of surnames is being phased out.
- Rearranged the Site Map page, and made it the site's home page, to make it easier to navigate the site.
- Renamed some pages, to make their names simpler. A few other pages have been moved.
- "The Soufflenheim Baptism Index" by Rosa Raiman has moved to a new location:
  - www.rootsweb.com/~fraalsac/souffbapt
- Added an alternate site map page, mostly to help me keep track of the pages I am currently working on.

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