This site contains the names and the descendants of all 16 great-great-grandparents of my children. You can find them, and in most cases their ancestors, in the Ancestors of My Children report. Names in green are their paternal (my) ancestors; names in blue are their maternal (Lynn's) ancestors. (File updated 26 February 2018.)
This site is always a work in progress. The ancestry report and most of the descendancy reports were originally uploaded in April 2011. Some of the reports have been updated since then, and are noted as such. I have written narrative versions of some of the 16 immigrant families from whom my children are descended.
My siblings and I are 31/32nds German and 1/32d Dutch, my wife is 1/2 German and 1/2 Irish, so our children are 1/4 Irish, 1/64th Dutch, and the rest German. The primary surname of the Dutch ancestors is ter Huurne. For fun, I have added a file for the Descendants of Berent ter Huurne, b. abt 1600 in the Netherlands.
Here is a picture of a whole bunch of the descendants of the Kuennen / Huinker ancestors, taken in September 2014 in front of DeSales School, Ossian, Iowa. Can you find me and my eight siblings?
The First Page contains the descendancy reports for the Kuennen, Hollerbach (Hollenbeck), Huinker, and Tobin families, honoring all four of their grandparents. The Second Page adds their great-grandparents, containing the descendancy reports for the Kuehner, Einck, Lang, and Ruddy Families. The remaining great-great grandparents' families - the Meyer, Balk, Braun, Mehs, Heck, Straub, Powell, and Lavelle families - can be found on the Third Page.
The New Daughters tab has files for the family history of my three daughters-ilaw - Heather (Badgley) Kuennen, Lindsay Looft, and Laura (Manewitz) Kuennen.
In 2015, my wife and I had our DNA tested by Ancestry. These results paint a consistent, but broader picture, presumably because our ancestors identified here from historical records had ancestors from other parts of the world. My results were 44% Europe West, 38% Great Britain, 11% Scandanavia, and 7% other (Europe East, Italy/Greece, Ireland, and Finland/Northern Russia). Lynn's - 42% Ireland, 21% Europe West, 12% Great Britain, 9% Scandanavia, and 7% Italy/Greece. Her trace regions are the Iberian Peninsula, Europe East, and the Caucasus.
Finally, there are new pages for possibly related folks, including a file for folks that I call the Michigan Kuennens. For a while, I was a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies, which encourages folks to gather all information relating to a single surname, and its variants, with the results at the One-Name Studies link above.
This site is always a work in progress. The ancestry report and most of the descendancy reports were originally uploaded in April 2011. Some of the reports have been updated since then, and are noted as such. I have written narrative versions of some of the 16 immigrant families from whom my children are descended.
My siblings and I are 31/32nds German and 1/32d Dutch, my wife is 1/2 German and 1/2 Irish, so our children are 1/4 Irish, 1/64th Dutch, and the rest German. The primary surname of the Dutch ancestors is ter Huurne. For fun, I have added a file for the Descendants of Berent ter Huurne, b. abt 1600 in the Netherlands.
Here is a picture of a whole bunch of the descendants of the Kuennen / Huinker ancestors, taken in September 2014 in front of DeSales School, Ossian, Iowa. Can you find me and my eight siblings?
The First Page contains the descendancy reports for the Kuennen, Hollerbach (Hollenbeck), Huinker, and Tobin families, honoring all four of their grandparents. The Second Page adds their great-grandparents, containing the descendancy reports for the Kuehner, Einck, Lang, and Ruddy Families. The remaining great-great grandparents' families - the Meyer, Balk, Braun, Mehs, Heck, Straub, Powell, and Lavelle families - can be found on the Third Page.
The New Daughters tab has files for the family history of my three daughters-ilaw - Heather (Badgley) Kuennen, Lindsay Looft, and Laura (Manewitz) Kuennen.
In 2015, my wife and I had our DNA tested by Ancestry. These results paint a consistent, but broader picture, presumably because our ancestors identified here from historical records had ancestors from other parts of the world. My results were 44% Europe West, 38% Great Britain, 11% Scandanavia, and 7% other (Europe East, Italy/Greece, Ireland, and Finland/Northern Russia). Lynn's - 42% Ireland, 21% Europe West, 12% Great Britain, 9% Scandanavia, and 7% Italy/Greece. Her trace regions are the Iberian Peninsula, Europe East, and the Caucasus.
Finally, there are new pages for possibly related folks, including a file for folks that I call the Michigan Kuennens. For a while, I was a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies, which encourages folks to gather all information relating to a single surname, and its variants, with the results at the One-Name Studies link above.
