This site originally focused on the ancestors and relatives of our children. When our sons were married, I started working on the ancestry of their wives. Then, in 2018, our first grandchildren came along, so their ancestry became a priority.
Our ancestors can be found in the following reports:
Names in green are the paternal (my) ancestors of my children; names in blue are their maternal (Lynn's) ancestors. Finley's maternal ancestors are in brown (Manewitz) and lime (Ward). Frances's maternal ancestors are in purple (Looft) and aqua (Wildman). Red indicates the last known ancestor in a specific line.
This site is always a work in progress. Please tell me about additions or corrections by using the contact form below.
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.
My DNA analysis from Ancestry.com gives an "Ethnicity Estimate" of 46% from Germanic Europe, 35% from England and Northwestern Europe, 9% Sweden, 6% Scotland, and 2% each from Ireland and Norway. MyHeritage.com uses a different algorithm. They report my heritage as North and West European, 46.0%; Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, 30.8%; Scandinavian, 21.1%; and English, 2.1%.
The picture above was taken in September 2014 after my Mom's funeral., in front of DeSales School in 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 Family tab has files for the family history of my three daughters-in-law - Heather (Badgley) Kuennen, Lindsay Looft, and Laura (Manewitz) Kuennen.
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.
Our ancestors can be found in the following reports:
- Ancestors of Our Children (Feb 2018)
- Ancestors of Finley Joseph Kuennen (Uploaded 4/28/2019)
- Ancestors of Frances Katherine Kuennen (Uploaded 4/12/2020) - (Without sources because the sourced file is too big for this free website. I will provide the sourced file to friends and relatives upon request.)
Names in green are the paternal (my) ancestors of my children; names in blue are their maternal (Lynn's) ancestors. Finley's maternal ancestors are in brown (Manewitz) and lime (Ward). Frances's maternal ancestors are in purple (Looft) and aqua (Wildman). Red indicates the last known ancestor in a specific line.
This site is always a work in progress. Please tell me about additions or corrections by using the contact form below.
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.
My DNA analysis from Ancestry.com gives an "Ethnicity Estimate" of 46% from Germanic Europe, 35% from England and Northwestern Europe, 9% Sweden, 6% Scotland, and 2% each from Ireland and Norway. MyHeritage.com uses a different algorithm. They report my heritage as North and West European, 46.0%; Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, 30.8%; Scandinavian, 21.1%; and English, 2.1%.
The picture above was taken in September 2014 after my Mom's funeral., in front of DeSales School in 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 Family tab has files for the family history of my three daughters-in-law - Heather (Badgley) Kuennen, Lindsay Looft, and Laura (Manewitz) Kuennen.
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.
