John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 1726

Several of us had the pleasure of welcoming Michael Oddenino to the Germanna Reunion.  Michael is the great-grandson of Giuseppe Oddenino, the Italian immigrant who painted the ceiling (about 1885) in the Hebron Church.  Michael has more Germanna ancestors than most readers of this list.  We have already worked out that he has Delphs, Rasors, Snyders, Castlers, Cooks, Gessers (Castlers), and Reiners by one line of descent.

He has other Germanna lines also and I thought it would be fun to work out some of these.  Starting with Alfred Utz to whom I will assign number 1, we have this Ahnentafel:

  1. Alfred Utz
  2. Simeon Utz
  3. Elizabeth Carpenter
  4. Adam Utz
  5. Mary Wayman
  6. Cornelius Carpenter
  7. Mary Weaver
  8. Michael Utz
  9. Susanna Crigler (this is a recent assignment which was worked out here on the list)
  10. George Wayman (more known from Germany)
  11. Catherine UNKNOWN
  12. Andrew Carpenter
  13. Barbara Weaver
  14. Matthias Weaver
  15. Elizabeth Finks
  16. George Utz (more known from Germany)
  17. Anna Barbara Meier
  18. Jacob Crigler
  19. Susanna Clore (more known from Germany)
———
  1. John Carpenter (aka Carpenter)
  2. Anna Barbara Kerker
  3. Peter Weaver
  4. Elizabeth UNKNOWN
  5. Peter Weaver (same as 26.)
  6. Elizabeth UNKNOWN (same as 27.)
  7. Mark Finks
  8. Elizabeth UNKNOWN
———
  1. Andrew Kerker (more known from Germany)
———
  1. Joseph Weaver (more known from Germany)
  2. Susanna Clore (same as 19.)

There is more to be worked out.  Michael calls me a cousin because we both have a Blankenbaker ancestor, but he doesn’t begin to know all of the ways in which we are cousins!
(02 Aug 03)

We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.