Proeger & Kochendoerfer

Proeger & Kochendoerfer

Gerabronn, Württemberg → Pittsburgh → Los Angeles · the wall is now the ship

Gerabronn, Württemberg→Pittsburgh→Los Angeles

Württemberg black over red for 1844, the kingdom's flag when Julius left.

The sixth generation on the Proeger side

On the Proeger side the sixth generation is half found. Julius Karl Proeger's parents are both named on records — his father Georg Melchior Julius Prüger on the Kirchberg baptism register S69, his mother on the same register as Elisabeth Catharina, née Lösch. Her given name is the one thing on this couple that three documents cannot agree on: the 1844 register, written at the time and read at full resolution, says Elisabeth Catharina; the FamilySearch index of their 1835 marriage says Elisabethe Sabina; and Julius's 1924 Pennsylvania death certificate S68, reported by a granddaughter-in-law eighty years after the fact, says Lossetta. The surname Lösch is the same on all three. This page takes the register as primary and keeps the other two as variants. They now have dates, from FamilySearch index entries rather than from images: he born 25 July 1804 at Erkenbrechtshausen and died 4 February 1870, she born 1803 at Crailsheim; married 1835 at Triensbach, Oberamt Crailsheim S122S123 — Probable, because no parish image has been read for any of it. Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer's parents are named for the first time on the FamilySearch shared tree — Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer (1811 – 1 October 1859, died at Langenburg) and Eva Margaretha Renk (b. 1809), married 29 November 1837 at Gerabronn S124 — and she herself was christened at Langenburg on 21 November 1847, eight kilometres from the parish where her husband was baptised. Confirmed since 25 September 2026: her baptism S184 and her parents' 1837 marriage S444 have been read on the registers themselves.

The whole sixth-generation note, across all of Earl's lines, is on the Silva page.

1. G5 · 3rd-great-grandparents Georg Melchior Julius Prüger  ⚭  Elisabeth Catharina Lösch — Erkenbrechtshausen & Crailsheim, Württemberg. Both named on the Württemberg Lutheran baptism record of Carl Julius Prüger, Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, 28 Apr 1844 — he Bürger und Schuhmachermeister, she Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch. Her given name reads Elisabethe Sabina on the FamilySearch index of their 1835 marriage and Lossetta on Julius's 1924 death certificate; the contemporaneous register is preferred and the variants are kept. His dates are no longer index-only: his own burial entry of 1870, read from the register image at 5041 × 4061 px, gives b. 25 Jul 1804 and d. 4 Feb 1870 — and checks itself, the stated age of 65 years, 6 months, 10 days counting forward from the one date to exactly the other S135. That entry also settles his trade: it calls him a Schuhmachermeister, as his son's 1844 baptism does, against the lone Schullehrer of his widow's 1872 entry S133, written two years after he died. Her dates remain from FamilySearch indexes and are Probable: b. 1803 Crailsheim; married 1835 at Triensbach. Her own parents are named too, and the register and the index do not agree: the FamilySearch index of the 1835 marriage gives Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch & Maria Dorothea Wolf of Crailsheim, while her own burial entry of 1872, read from the image at full resolution, names them Joh. Heinrich Melchior Lösch, Glasermeister of Crailsheim, and Maria Dorothea geb. Muck S133 — a register image against an index, on both the father's middle name and the mother's surname — and above him, Johann Leonhard David Prüger ⚭ Eva Barbara Schmid, a seventh generation which was three index entries and nothing else until 21 Sep 2026 and is now read from a register image: his 1870 burial entry names them both, marks both deceased, and adds what no index held — he a Maler, a painter, in Erkenbrechtshausen, the same village recorded as their son's birthplace, and she geb. Schmid S135. The index spells her Schmidt; the register's terminal stroke will not decide between them and neither spelling is retired. ⚠ Corrected 26 September 2026: Eva Barbara was the stepmother. Georg Melchior Julius's own 1804 birth register names his mother as Maria geb. Büschin — Anna Maria Busch, Johann Leonhard David's first wife (m. 1796) — and the 1806 register calls him a widower when he married Eva Barbara S591S592. Above him the line now runs back through Johann Michael Pröger (1740–1795), a master weaver, and Anna Margaretha Raisig (1745–1776) S594S596S598. Behind Johann Michael stand his father Johann Caspar Pröger (1714–1777), a Triensbach farmer S599, and his grandfather Hans (Johann) Pröger (about 1673–1737), who came from Seibotenberg to farm at Triensbach in 1704 S607S608; Hans's father, Hanß Pröger of Seibotenberg Probable confirm or correct →, is the eleventh generation counting Earl as the first, and the deepest on this line. 🆕 Hans's wife, Elisabetha Schuster (1678–1736), was the daughter of Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach and Anna Maria Gronbach, who married at Lendsiedel on 29 February 1676 S805; her father married again, as a widower, at Ilshofen on 22 August 1699 S806. Probable confirm or correct → The evidence is the name, the hamlet and the parish, which match her 1678 baptism S609; each marriage is a single entry, and a second Hans Schuster at Unter-Schmerach is not ruled out. 🔑 Updated 22 September 2026 — THE FIRST DOCUMENTED CHILD OF THIS COUPLE BESIDES THE IMMIGRANT. A Württemberg family register at SCHWIEBERDINGEN, Band 25, opening pp. 366b/367 S159 — a parish 80 km from Kirchberg — records the second marriage of Johann Georg Fux, Gürtlermeister, on 28 May 1861 at Kirchberg an der Jagst, to Christiane Juliane Erdlin, geb. PRÜGER, born 25 October 1838 at Kirchberg, died 3 February 1911 — and writes her parents out in its own rows: "II V. — Georg Melchior Prüger, B. u. Schuhma[cher] in Kirchberg a. J." and "II M. — Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch." She is an elder SISTER of Julius Karl Proeger, five and a half years his senior, and she stayed in Württemberg. 🔑 The identification does not rest on the surname but on four points that agree with the 1844 Kirchberg baptism S69: the given names Georg Melchior, the trade Schuhmacher, the town Kirchberg an der Jagst, and the wife's full name with maiden surname. 🔑 And "Sabina" is no longer carried only by an index. A second ORIGINAL register, written by a different parish for a different purpose, states Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch. ⚠ Two originals now disagree — Catharina on the 1844 baptism, Sabina here — and neither is overturned. The name is still not settled and the hedge stands, now with a second witness. ⚠ Ancestry indexes the parents' surname as Sträger. The image reads Prüger at 4×, but the initial cluster is not beyond dispute even at 4×; flagged, and nothing above depends on it. ⚠ "Residence Place: Schwieberdingen", which Ancestry offers as new for both ancestors, is REJECTED. Schwieberdingen is the parish of the book and of the daughter's married household; Georg Melchior and Elisabeth Sabina are named there as absent parents, at Kirchberg, and never lived there on this evidence. ⚠ "Erdlin" is a married name — she was widowed or once married before 1861, at twenty-two; that first marriage has not been looked for. ⚠ The book records no children of the second marriage, which proves none were entered in it, not that there were none. Confirmed
2. 4 generations between — show them

   1. G4 · 2nd-great-grandparents Julius Karl Proeger  ⚭  Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer 15 Apr 1844 Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg – 6 Jan 1924 Pittsburgh · she 3 Nov 1847 Germany – 9 Apr 1912 Pittsburgh · both buried Smithfield East End Cemetery. The immigrant generation of the Proeger line. Born Carl Julius Prüger, baptised at the Lutheran parish in Gerabronn, Kirchberg u. Oa., Württemberg; anglicised to Julius Proeger in America. Father: Georg Melchior Julius Prüger. Mother: Elisabeth Catharina Lösch (also read Elisabethe Sabina; "Lossetta" on the death certificate) S69S68. ⚠️ Port, ship and date of arrival: Confirmed. Hamburg departure 14 Oct 1865 on the HAPAG steamer Saxonia, arriving New York 1 Nov 1865. The 1900 census says "immigrated 1867" — a two-year discrepancy; the Hamburg list is a contemporary port register and is preferred. ⚠ The marriage was made in America, not Germany. On the 1900 census both spouses report immigration in 1867, 33 years in the US and 32 years married — they crossed together and married the year after, in 1868. The same sheet records 10 children born, 7 living, and gives her birth as Nov 1847 S137. Confirmed
   2. G3 · great-grandparents William Leonard Proeger  ⚭  Anna Blanche Roberts 22 Mar 1876 Pittsburgh – 14 Dec 1955 Los Angeles Co. · she 16 Sep 1892 Bellaire, Ohio – 15 Aug 1942 Los Angeles · m. 1908, Ohio County, West Virginia S44. ⚠️ Birth-year conflict: his Social Security application says 1876, FindAGrave says 1878. Same day and month. The application is preferred; the conflict is recorded, not resolved. His grave is unmarked. Her parents: Henry S. Roberts (b. Nov 1854, West Virginia, glass blower in Wheeling, WV) and Rose A. Williams (b. ~1855), confirmed by Ohio birth/christening index, CA Death Index (mother's maiden = Williams), 1900 census, and FindAGrave S90S91S92. Confirmed
   3. G2 · grandfather William Harry Proeger 26 Jun 1911 Pennsylvania – 7 Jul 1982 Marin Co., California · registered for the draft at North Hollywood, 16 Oct 1940 S12. Confirmed
   4. G1 · father William Leonard "Bill" Proeger Name and relationship only in this chain; his full record is on his card. Living — withheld
3. G0 · subject Robert Earl "Earl" Proeger Living — withheld

The wall has broken. A Württemberg Lutheran baptism record names the parish — Kirchberg an der Jagst, in the Oberamt Gerabronn, written in the register as Gerabronn, Kirchberg u. Oa. — and the father, Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, and the mother, Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch. Georg Melchior Julius's own brothers and sisters were christened in the same place, entered as Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), and Julius gave his home to the Hamburg clerk in 1865 as Kirchberg — three independent places all naming the parish rather than the district town. The crossing is now CONFIRMED: Julius sailed from Hamburg on 14 October 1865 aboard the HAPAG steamer Saxonia, in steerage, aged 21, giving his home as Kirchberg, Württemberg and his trade as Gießer (caster/moulder) — the same trade he is recorded under in Pittsburgh in 1884 and Greensburg in 1900. Arrived New York 1 November 1865.

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Julius Karl Proeger

WürttembergConfirmed

The immigrant · 1844–1924

• Also recorded as Carl Julius Proeger and Julius Proeger. The middle initial "H" appears on a NUMIDENT but belongs to the father, not the son; it does not distinguish them.
• Born 15 April 1844 at Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg — the register writes the place Gerabronn, Kirchberg u. Oa., and his siblings' entries read Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn) — and baptised Carl Julius Prüger at that Lutheran parish on 28 April — the Württemberg church book S69, matched to the exact birth date on his Pennsylvania death certificate S68
• 🔑 Sister: Christiane Juliane Prüger, b. 25 Oct 1838 Kirchberg an der Jagst, m. 28 May 1861 Johann Georg Fux of Schwieberdingen, d. 3 Feb 1911 — the first sibling of the immigrant ever documented, named with both of his own parents on a Württemberg family register S159. She stayed in Württemberg.

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• Parents, both on the baptism register: Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Bürger und Schuhmachermeister — the death certificate says the father is unknown, so this name exists on the register alone — and Elisabeth Catharina, née Lösch. Her given name is read three ways: Elisabeth Catharina on the 1844 register, Elisabethe Sabina on the FamilySearch index of the 1835 Triensbach marriage, Lossetta on the 1924 death certificate. The register is contemporaneous and is preferred; the surname Lösch is identical on all three S69S68S122
• His grandparents, new on 20 September 2026 and Probable — named on three FamilySearch index entries and on no image: Johann Leonhard David Proeger ⚭ Eva Barbara Schmidt, and on his mother's side Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch ⚭ Maria Dorothea Wolf of Crailsheim S122S123. ⚠️ Corrected 26 September 2026: Eva Barbara was his father's stepmother; the 1804 birth register names his father's mother as Anna Maria Busch S591
• Died 6 January 1924, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, aged 79; buried Smithfield East End Cemetery, Pittsburgh S19
• This is the immigrant generation of the Proeger line. Parish of origin, port, ship and date of arrival are all on record. Naturalisation is still Not found — and it is not on FamilySearch: a full-text search of Allegheny County naturalisation and citizenship records returned nothing at all on 20 September 2026, the corpus holding no Allegheny images. It is now a NARA Philadelphia or Allegheny County Division of Court Records request. He owned property in Pittsburgh by 1887, so it had already happened.
• He was naturalized in 1874, at Pittsburgh — his own 1920 census line reads immigrated 1865, Na 1874, and his son's sworn 1919 passport application gives the same year and says the certificate was presented S179S180. The certificate is still unlocated; the passport file's own pointer is passport no. 50070 of 16 June 1917.
• In January 1920, widowed, he owned 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, with his daughter Gertrude and her husband Godfrey Murfin S179; Gertrude was still in the house when she died in 1956 and was buried at Smithfield S181. A son, Julius Jr, born Pittsburgh 29 July 1867, married Ida Waggoner S180.
• In June 1880 he was a machinist on Virginia Street, Pittsburgh Ward 32, with Mena and four children: Julius 12, George 8, Frederick 6 and Mena 2 S183.
• 🆕 Two of his children in 1930, added 24 September 2026. His daughter Caroline was married to Charles W. Ross, a food-products salesman in Pittsburgh, with their children Karl P. and Katherine S355. His son Lewis W. (Walter) managed a laundry and owned his house at Swissvale, with his wife May and their children May and Walter S356.

Ten Proeger arrivals from Bremen, Hamburg and Rotterdam between 1857 and 1891 are indexed S2. The nearest fit by age is "PROEGER, JULS., from Germany, age 21, laborer, New York, 1 November 1865, ship Saxonia" — a 21-year-old in 1865 was born about 1844. That is arithmetic, not evidence. He has deliberately not been attached to it.

Six United States glass patents, 1876–1919, all his — a pattern maker and molder, never his clerk son (the attribution argument):

• US D8,942, 1 February 1876 — Design for a bird relish dish
• US D20,079, 1890 — Design for glass vessels
• US D21,113, 13 October 1891 — Ornamentation of glassware
• US D21,181, 24 November 1891 — Design for tableware — "Pioneer's Victoria"
• US 580,716, 13 April 1897 — Hollow glassware
• US 1,320,091, 28 October 1919 — Sheet glass

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Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer

Confirmed

The immigrant · 1847–1912

• Father: Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer Confirmed
• Also recorded as Wilamena K., Mina L. and Sibylla Mine.
• Born 3 November 1847, Germany S137S124
• Died 9 April 1912, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, aged 63; buried Smithfield East End Cemetery S19
• In April 1910 — her last census — she is Wilhelmina S. Proeger, 63, married 44 years, at 707 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, with Walter, Gertrude and Caroline S182. The enumerator wrote her husband as Louis G.; the household is Julius's.
• Baptised "Sibÿlla Mina" at Langenburg, born 3 November 1847, daughter of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, cooper, and Eva Margaretha Renk S184.
• Her parish is named for the first time: Langenburg. The FamilySearch shared tree christens her there on 21 November 1847, in the Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg — eight kilometres from Kirchberg an der Jagst, where her husband was baptised three years earlier S69S124. Two families out of one small district who marry in Pittsburgh is chain migration, not coincidence. Confirmed — the Langenburg register entry itself has now been read S184. An earlier note here rested on an index entry placing a Proeger family at Künzelsau; the Württemberg baptism supersedes that guess.
• Her parents, Confirmed on 25 September 2026 from her baptism register and their 1837 marriage register S444: Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer (1811 – 1 October 1859, died at Langenburg) ⚭ Eva Margaretha Renk (b. 1809), married 29 November 1837 at Gerabronn, with six further children S124
• ⚠️ The year was corrected from 1848 to 1847 on 21 September 2026. This page had kept the 1848 on her cemetery memorial S19 and merely noted the shared tree's 1847. Three things now stand against it: the 1900 census S137 writes Nov 1847 and gives her age as 52 at 1 June 1900, which is consistent only with 1847 — a November 1848 birth would read 51; her 1912 Pennsylvania death certificate gives 3 November 1847 independently, twelve years later; and her christening on 21 November 1847 S124 cannot precede her birth. The memorial's 1848 is the outlier.
• The marriage was made in America. On the 1900 census both spouses report immigration in 1867, 33 years in the United States and 32 years married — so they crossed first and married in 1868, on this side of the ocean. The same row records ten children born, seven living as of 1 June 1900; that column exists only on a wife's line, which is why her husband's record never carried it S137.
• Her own crossing is still Not found. Langenburg makes the Württemberg registers, rather than the Hamburg passenger lists, the next place to look.
• 🆕 Three of Minnie's brothers went to America before her, added 26 September 2026: Johann Carl, born 21 March 1839 at Langenburg, applied to emigrate in October 1858 Probable confirm or correct →; Friedrich, born 25 December 1842, a shoemaker, and Heinrich Hermann, born 14 May 1845, a bookbinder, sailed together on the Humboldt from Hamburg to New York on 23 June 1864 S611. Heinrich Hermann's baptism names Georg Leonhard and Eva Margaretha as his parents and sits on the same family-register folio as Minnie's S612; Johann Carl's baptism, read from the register image, names the same parents: he was born 21 March 1839 and baptised at Langenburg on 27 March 1839 S729. His 1858 emigration application and Friedrich rest on index rows only. Minnie's own crossing has not been found

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Gertrude Proeger Murfin

Confirmed

Daughter of Julius Karl Proeger · died 1956

• Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; her death certificate names her father Julius Proeger and her mother's maiden name Wilhelmina Kochendoerfer S332 — Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer
• In January 1920 a daughter, 32, in her father's house at 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, with her husband Godfrey Murfin S179
• Died 18 March 1956, aged 71; spouse Godfrey Murfin S332. Funeral 21 March 1956; buried at Smithfield S181
• 🆕 Her husband Godfrey Murfin, born at Wem, England, in 1876, petitioned for citizenship at Pittsburgh on 24 March 1931. The petition says they married at Pittsburgh on 3 April 1915 and had one daughter, Marjone Louise, born 7 June 1917, and it gives Gertrude's birth as 7 May 1883 S365; added 24 September 2026. ⚠️ That date does not fit her age in 1920 or at her death.
• 🆕 In 1950 she and Godfrey were still at 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, he 73 and she 65 S372; added 24 September 2026.
• 🆕 In April 1940 she was 56, with Godfrey, 63, and their daughter Marjorie, 22, in the house they owned at 5805 Hayes Street, Pittsburgh Ward 11, where they had also lived in 1935 Confirmed S942. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In April 1930 she was at 711 N. St. Clair Street with Godfrey, 53, a linen salesman, and Marjorie, 12, in the house they owned, valued at $16,000 Confirmed S946. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 Godfrey died a widower at 711 N. St. Clair Street on 17 December 1957, aged 81; his death certificate names his wife as Gertrude Proeger, his parents as Godfrey Murfin and Hanna Kirkland, and the informant as their daughter Marjorie M. Veitch of Fairfield, Connecticut Confirmed S944. H. Samson buried him at Smithfield Cemetery on 20 December 1957, as they had buried Gertrude S945. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 Godfrey's English family, probably: a Godfrey Murfin, 4, born at Wem, is in the 1881 census at Aston Street, Wem, with his parents Godfrey, a wheelwright, and Hannah, both from Leek; in 1891 he is 14, a draper's apprentice, at 45 New Street Probable confirm or correct → S947S948. Evidence: the parents' names match his 1957 death certificate and the place and year match his 1931 petition. Weak: no record yet names Wem and the Pittsburgh family together. Know more? Add to this record. added 29 September 2026

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Godfrey Murfin

Confirmed

Husband of Gertrude Proeger Murfin · 1876–1957

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the husband of Gertrude Proeger Murfin, the daughter of Julius Karl Proeger. His 1957 death certificate, read from the image, names his wife as Gertrude Proeger S944, and his 1931 citizenship petition gives their marriage at Pittsburgh on 3 April 1915 S365. Card added 1 October 2026
• 🆕 Born 20 April 1876, by his 1918 draft card S1103, at Wem, Shropshire, England, by his petition S365. The General Register Office index lists his birth in the Wem district in April–June 1876, volume 6a, page 792 Confirmed S1102
• Son of Godfrey Murfin and Hanna Kirkland, by his death certificate S944. Probably the Godfrey Murfin, 4, born at Wem, in the 1881 census at Aston Street, Wem, with his parents Godfrey, a wheelwright, and Hannah, both from Leek, and the draper's apprentice of 14 at 45 New Street in 1891 Probable confirm or correct → S947S948. Evidence: the parents' names match the death certificate and the place and year match the petition. Weak: no record yet names Wem and the Pittsburgh family together
• Married Gertrude Proeger at Pittsburgh on 3 April 1915; one daughter, Marjone Louise, born 7 June 1917, by the petition S365. She is the Marjorie of the 1930 and 1940 censuses and the Marjorie M. Veitch of Fairfield, Connecticut, who gave the details on his death certificate S946S942S944
• 🆕 On 12 September 1918 he registered for the draft at Pittsburgh: 42, living at 711 N. St. Clair Street, a salesman for William Coulson & Son of 429 Fifth Avenue, New York; still a British subject who had not declared his intention to naturalize; nearest relative his wife Gertrude P. Murfin; tall, of medium build, with gray eyes and dark hair Confirmed S1103
• In January 1920 he lived at 711 N. St. Clair Street in the house of his father-in-law, Julius Proeger S179; in April 1930 he was 53, a linen salesman, owning the house S946. He petitioned for citizenship on 24 March 1931 S365
• 🆕 The 1932 Pittsburgh directory lists him as a salesman, with his wife Gertrude P., householder at 711 N. St. Clair Confirmed S1104. In 1935 and April 1940 the family owned 5805 Hayes Street, Pittsburgh S942; by 1950 he and Gertrude were back at 711 N. St. Clair, he 73 S372
• Died a widower at 711 N. St. Clair Street on 17 December 1957, aged 81 S944; buried by H. Samson at Smithfield Cemetery on 20 December 1957, as Gertrude had been S945
• 🆕 In 1901 he was a draper’s assistant in Birmingham, single and 24, living in at 132–133 New Street with ten other assistants and apprentices of a general draper; born at Wem, Shropshire Confirmed S1157.

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William Leonard Proeger

PennsylvaniaConfirmed

The elder · 1876–1955

• Born 22 March 1876, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — NUMIDENT, drawn from his own SSA application filed at Los Angeles on 14 March 1947 S13
• ⚠️ FindAGrave gives 22 March 1878 S14. Same day and month, conflicting year; the NUMIDENT year is the better source.
• Died 14 December 1955, Los Angeles County, California S13S14
• His father is named on that death record: JULIUS PROEGER. California, County Birth and Death Records 1800–1994 — death 14 December 1955 at Los Angeles, birth 1876, parents: Julius Proeger S44. Confirmed — a government record, not a user tree. Until 13 September 2026 this page carried the join between him and Julius Karl Proeger as Probable (strong), resting on FindAGrave, FamilySearch and two of his brothers' Social Security entries. The state death record states it outright, and the link is upgraded.
• Buried Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Block D, Section 3357, Lot 5. Unmarked grave. S14
• Married Anna B. Roberts in 1908, Ohio County, West Virginia S13
• 🆕 Her 1942 death notice names her “loving wife of William L. Proeger”, of 2123 Lemoyne Avenue, Los Angeles S1175.
• 🆕 His own death notices, December 1955: he died on Wednesday 14 December, aged 79, of 1540 Ewing Street, Los Angeles. Services were held on Friday 16 December at Utter-McKinley's Jewel City chapel, Glendale, and he was buried in Valhalla Cemetery. He left a daughter, Queen Anne Helgedalen; three sons, Richard F., William H. and Julius K.; and two sisters, Carrie Ross and Gertrude Murfin. Neither notice names a wife S1176S1177. See Jane Bell for the unproven later wife.
• Children: William Harry (1911), Richard Frederick Sr (1913), Julius Karl (1917), Queen Anne (1919) S12S14
• Residence trail: Pittsburgh 1880 → Rochester, Beaver Co., PA 1910 → Allegheny Co. draft registration 1917–18 → Cincinnati 1920 → Chicago 1935 → Dunkirk, New York 1940 → Los Angeles 1949–1955. Probable confirm or correct → — a FamilySearch event list, individually unverified S12
• 🆕 Registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 at Tarentum, born 22 March 1876 in his own hand, a mechanic at Allegheny Steel Co., Brackenridge, with his wife Anna as nearest relative S381. In 1940 a glass worker at 414 Park Ave., Dunkirk, New York, with Anna, after Chicago in 1935 S382; added 24 September 2026.
• 🆕 On 1 July 1895, aged 19, he enlisted as a private in Co. I, 10th Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard. His residence was Greensburg and he was a glass worker, the family trade. He was discharged on 10 February 1898 for “Removal from city” and had no federal service S442. added 25 September 2026.

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Anna Blanche Roberts

OhioConfirmed

1892–1942

• Father: Henry S. Roberts Confirmed
• Born 16 September 1892, Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio S17
• Died 15 August 1942, Los Angeles, California, aged 49 S17
• 🆕 She died at home, 2123 Lemoyne Avenue, Los Angeles. A Daily News item of 17 August 1942 reported that, after 20 years of migraine headaches and a recent major operation, she took an overdose of headache tablets and was dead when the police ambulance arrived. That is the paper's account, quoted as printed: it does not say whether the overdose was accidental, and no coroner's finding has been read. The item puts her death on Sunday 16 August and her age at 52; the death index gives 15 August, aged 49, and that is kept S1174.
• 🆕 Her paid death notice in the Los Angeles Examiner, 19 August 1942, reads “Anna Blanche of 2123 Lemoyne ave., Los Angeles, loving wife of William L. Proeger” S1175.
• Buried Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Block D, Section 3357, Lot 6 — beside her husband. Her marker reads "Loving Wife And Mother." S17
• Bellaire sits directly across the river from Wheeling, in the Ohio County, West Virginia where the 1908 marriage was recorded. Internally consistent.
• Parents: Henry S. Roberts (b. Nov 1854, West Virginia, glass blower in Wheeling, WV) and Rose A. Williams (b. ~1855) — confirmed by Ohio birth/christening index, CA Death Index, 1900 census, and FindAGrave S90S91S92. Siblings: Etta (Henrietta, b.~1881), Florence (b.~1883), Sam (b.~1885), Thomas (b.~1887). Henry's parents both born Ohio per 1900 census. ⚠️ Anna NOT in the 1900 household.
• ⚠️ She is no kin to the other Roberts on this tree. Earl Theodore Roberts, who married her son's widow Aileane in 1946, is son of Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson of Massachusetts S88. Two unrelated Roberts families, one surname — do not merge them.
• 🆕 Named as his wife on William's 1918 draft card S381; in 1940 with him at 414 Park Ave., Dunkirk, New York, where he was a glass worker, both in Chicago in 1935 S382; added 24 September 2026.
• 🆕 Photograph, 12 June 1932, Wallaceburg, Ontario Confirmed (family testimony): a snapshot inscribed “Mother Proeger” shows her, aged 39, on a sidewalk in the town. Her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named her on 1 October 2026: “My Grandmother Proeger my Fathers Mother”. Both sides of the snapshot are in Photos below.

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William Harry Proeger

PennsylvaniaConfirmed

Paternal grandfather · 1911–1982

• Born 26 June 1911, Pennsylvania — Social Security NUMIDENT, California-issued SSN S13. The day, the month and Pa. are corroborated in his own presence on the 1932 Ohio licence application S144. ⚠️ The year digit on that line is smeared and is not legible — the abt 1911 in Ancestry's index is derived from the age column, not read off the page.
• Died 7 July 1982, Marin County, California S13S12
• Son of William Leonard Proeger (1876–1955) and Anna Blanche Roberts S12S14 — and now in a document he swore to himself: the 1932 Ohio licence application gives his father as Wm. L. Proeger and his mother's maiden name as Anna B. Roberts S144.
• 🆕 Named as a son, “William H.”, in his father's 1955 death notice S1176.
• Living at 4823 Summit Street, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio in February–March 1932, occupation machinist S144 — the first paper behind the family's memory of Ohio. Earl's own account has his grandfather travelling back to California from Ohio around the 1940 Utah wedding; until this pull, Ohio had nothing but the telling behind it.
• Married (1) Dorothy Susan Reid, 4 March 1932, Lucas County, Ohio — the county ledger, licence no. 97864, read at full resolution S144S12. Both are recorded not previously married, so this was his first and Aileane was his second. She was Dorothy Susan Reid, born in Indiana, daughter of Charles Reid and Bessie Craighead; she had turned 18 two days before the wedding S366 and her mother signed the consent line a week earlier. He gave his occupation as machinist and his address as 4823 Summit Street, Toledo — the same address the bride gave.
• ⚠️ What became of Dorothy Susan Reid is not known. Between 4 March 1932 and the August 1940 Utah wedding there was a divorce or a death, and no record here says which. Nothing has been looked for yet S144.
• Married (2) Aileane Marie Silva, 13 August 1940, Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah S12
• Listed in the 1946 Los Angeles County voter index at 1839½ Lake Shore Avenue, party “Declines to State” Probable confirm or correct → S351
• Registered for the draft 16 October 1940 at North Hollywood, Los Angeles County S12 — which places him in the county in exactly the window a child born there in early 1941 would have been carried and delivered.
• 🆕 Photograph, 10 February 1937 Confirmed (family testimony): he and Aileane Da Silva on the grass with a cat, three and a half years before their 1940 marriage. Their daughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026: “My father William Harry Proeger and my Mother Aileane Da Silva”. In Photos below.

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Dorothy Susan Reid

Confirmed

Paternal grandfather's first wife · m. 1932

Not an ancestor of Earl's: she is the first wife of his grandfather William Harry Proeger. Earl descends from his second marriage, to Aileane Marie Silva.

• Married William Harry Proeger on 4 March 1932, Lucas County, Ohio — the county ledger, licence and certificate no. 97864 S144. Both recorded not previously married.
• Born in Indiana, daughter of Charles Reid and Bessie Craighead; she had turned 18 two days before the wedding S366, and her mother signed the consent line a week earlier S144.
• Gave her address as 4823 Summit Street, Toledo, the same address as the groom S144.
• ⚠️ Nothing else is known of her. Between the 1932 marriage and William's August 1940 Utah wedding there was a divorce or a death, and no record read so far says which S144.
• 🆕 She was born Dorothy Susan Boost at Indianapolis on 2 March 1914, daughter of Andy Boost, a wagon cleaner of Logansport, and Bessie Craighead of Peru, Indiana S366; added 24 September 2026. How she came to be a Reid is not yet known.
• 🆕 Still married in 1933: the Toledo directory lists “Proeger Wm H (Dorothy S)”, William an apprentice at Toledo Mould Co. S367.
• 🆕 In April 1930 she was 16 and in school, living on Summit Street, Washington Township, Lucas County, with her parents Charles L. Reid, a machinist, and Bessie Confirmed S1038. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 On 20 December 1932, nine months after the wedding, Dorothy Proeger, 18, tried to cross at Windsor to visit her husband William Proeger at 635 Duke St., Wallaceburg, Ontario, and was turned back Confirmed S1037. added 29 September 2026

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William Leonard Proeger

Living

Father

Photograph — senior portrait, Prickly Pear, Abilene Christian College, 1965, page 63 S62. The page prints its portraits three to a row and keys three names to each row alphabetically; his is the middle portrait of the row captioned "Powell, Marsha Joy · Proeger, Bill · Propst, Wayne." He appears again, in glasses, in the 1963 Barracks Dorm Council group photograph. Confirmed

• The California Birth Index 1905–1995 contains exactly one Proeger born in 1941 — indexed as "William Lenard Proeger," mother's maiden name Silva S4. He is not in the Texas Birth Index at all S3.
• The exact day is no longer masked. Read in a signed-in FamilySearch session, the same index entry gives 1941 in full S43. This was Probable on this page until 13 September 2026, because the free view masks the day and the entry could only be ranked, not read. It is now Confirmed — the last soft joint in the paternal reconstruction, closed by the record itself rather than by argument.

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• High school on Guam. Earl Proeger says his father went through high school on Guam while his stepfather, Navy officer Earl Theodore Roberts, was stationed there after the war S300. A family scrapbook page dated “May 1956 Guam” places the Roberts family on the island. Freshman at George Washington High School, Guam, 1954–55, enrolled as B. Roberts under his step-father's surname; identified in the class photo by his son Earl S313. Confirmed His sisters Nancy and Patty are at the same school that year S311.
• Home town: Alameda, California. The 1964 Prickly Pear, the yearbook of Abilene Christian College, lists him on its student roster as "Proeger, Bill — Alameda, Calif." S45. Confirmed
• Married (1) Nancy Martin Coffman in 1964 in Harris County, Texas, licence 0302006, read from the county register image S199 Confirmed. It was immediately after her college graduation: she is on the Abilene Christian home-town rosters as Coffman through the 1964 Prickly Pear S45 and absent from the 1965 senior index under either surname S62.
• Divorced 1981 S1. Probable — Not found in the Texas Divorce Index 1968–2011, whose only exact-surname Proeger entries are an unrelated Tarrant County couple S6.
• Married (2) Briana, Travis County, Texas S2. Confirmed Their son John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger was born in 1994 to Bill and Briana Castro Proeger; Earl was present at the birth S24. Family testimony
• Two sisters, and he is the youngest of the three. Nancy Aileen Proeger (1937–1973) is the eldest (she died 9 January 1973 in Wallowa County, Oregon S298); Patricia "Patty" Collins — Collins by marriage — is the middle child and is living, so she appears here with Earl's explicit permission Family testimony. The order is Earl's own correction, made within an hour of this page first publishing it the other way round; the paternal wall section keeps both versions visible.
• 🆕 His sister Patricia married Albert R. Collins in 1967 in California Confirmed S1207. The state marriage index gives the groom as 48 and the bride as 28, which puts her birth between May 1938 and May 1939. Earl confirmed on 2 October 2026 that Albert is his uncle Family testimony. The index is not the certificate, and its county code is not yet decoded.

Why Alameda matters. The whole paternal reconstruction turns on the mother's maiden name Silva, an Alameda County family — and on his father having been in Los Angeles County in 1940 S12. A college yearbook printed in Texas in 1964, which knew nothing of any of that, records his home town as Alameda S45. It is a contemporaneous, college-published record arriving at the same place from an unrelated direction. The same roster lists "Coffman, Nancy — Pasadena", which is where Earl's mother grew up S45S1 — the two of them on one student roster, in what is on present evidence the same year they married.

Withheld under the privacy rule: his age at either marriage, the state file numbers of both marriage records, his address, his business, and the people-search profile used only to cross-check a date already held by the family. His date of birth is published here at Earl's express instruction, 13 September 2026, because it is the fact that closes the paternal wall and it comes from a state birth index rather than from the family. That was a deliberate, named exception to the living-adult rule as it then stood. That rule is now gone. On 21 September 2026 Earl replaced it: living adults are published in full, and only minors are held back — named, and nothing else. So this date is no longer an exception to anything; it is simply the first one that was published. What stays off this card stays off for its own reasons, not the old rule's: his address, his business, and the state file numbers S24S43.

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Robert Earl "Earl" Proeger

Living

Subject of this record

• Birthplace not published on this page — the family obituary records the young couple living there when their first son was born S1, and the Texas Marriage Index corroborates the year S2. Year withheld here.
• Married Kristin M. Caffey in a ceremony on Guam, 1994; the marriage was registered in Travis County, Texas (Texas Marriage Index, 1994) S2, because Texas allowed them to marry by affirmation rather than oath — a Quaker scruple Guam made no accommodation for (Earl Proeger’s account, 22 Sep 2026 S24). The Travis County record is the one that establishes Kristin's maiden name.

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• Three children with Kristin — Maia, and the twins Evelyn and Axel. Their names are all this page publishes about them: no dates, no birth years, no ages, no schools, no places.

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Georg Melchior Julius Prüger

WürttembergProbable

Evidence: His son's 1844 baptism and his own 1870 burial entry, both read from the register. Weak or missing: His 1804 birth register has now been read too; it names his mother as Anna Maria Busch, so the parents on his burial entry are his father and stepmother. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

4th great-grandfather · 1804–1870

• Father: Johann Leonhard David Prüger Confirmed
• Mother: Anna Maria Busch Confirmed — named in his own 1804 birth register S591. His father's second wife, Eva Barbara Schmidt, was his stepmother
• Born 25 July 1804, Erkenbrechtshausen, Württemberg S12
• Died 4 February 1870, Württemberg S12
• Father of Julius Karl Proeger (the immigrant) S12
• Bürger und Schuhmachermeister — citizen and master shoemaker — on his son's baptism register, Kirchberg an der Jagst, 28 April 1844 S69
• 🆕 A shoemaker at the end of his life too — his own burial entry says so, 21 September 2026. Image 639 of the same register has now been read at his own row: burial entry no. 3 of 1870, which names him Schuhmachermeister in Kirchberg a/J. S135. That resolves the conflict this card carried for a day. Three parish entries name his trade: his son's baptism in 1844 S69 and his own burial in 1870 S135 both say shoemaker; only his widow's entry of August 1872 S133 calls him a Schullehrer — a schoolteacher — and that one was written two years after he was dead, in a column describing a late husband. Two contemporaneous readings against one posthumous one. The Schullehrer reading stays on this page as a recorded variant; it is not deleted, and a village schoolteacher really was often a tradesman with letters. But the trade this page carries for him is master shoemaker
• 🆕 The 1870 entry checks its own arithmetic. It gives his age at death as 65 years, 6 months and 10 days — which counts forward from the birth it records, 25 July 1804, to exactly 4 February 1870, the death date it records. Birth and death corroborate each other inside a single record, which no index can do. He was buried on 7 February 1870 at ten in the morning S135
• 🆕 His parents are no longer index-only. Until 21 September 2026 their names sat on this card on the strength of a transcription. They have now been read off the register image, and it gives more than the index held: his father Johann Leonhard David Prüger was a Maler — a painter — in Erkenbrechtshausen, the same village recorded as Georg's own birthplace S12; the entry names as his mother Eva Barbara, née Schmid, a maiden name no index carried. Both were marked dead by February 1870. ⚠️ Eva Barbara was his stepmother: his 1804 birth register, read 25 September 2026, names his mother as Anna Maria Busch S591. ⚠️ Her surname may be written Schmid or Schmidt — the last stroke does not decide it, and it is not forced here S135

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Elisabethe Sabina Loesch

WürttembergProbable

Evidence: Her 1872 burial entry, read from the register, and her son's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate. Weak or missing: Her given name differs between registers (Elisabeth Catharina in 1844), and her birth is from a family tree. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

4th great-grandmother · 1803–1872

• Father: Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch Probable confirm or correct →
• 🆕 Her mother: Maria Dorothea Wolf Probable confirm or correct →, by the indexes of her baptism S840 and of her 1835 marriage S122. What is weak: both are indexes, and her own 1872 burial entry, read from the register, calls her mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck S133; the maiden name is unresolved. added 28 September 2026.
• Born spring 1803, Crailsheim, Württemberg S12S133
• Elisabethe Sabina Loesch died 12 August 1872 at 5 a.m., a widow of Kirchberg u. Oa.; buried 14 August 1872 at ten in the morning — her own burial entry, burial entry no. 534, read from the register image S133
• 🆕 Her parents, named for the first time in this record, 21 September 2026. Father Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch, Glasermeister — master glazier — of Crailsheim; mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck. Both are marked deceased in the 1872 entry S133
• Her surname is Lösch, and it is settled. The Württemberg index reads the Kurrent of this entry as a different surname altogether; the register itself names her father a Lösch of Crailsheim, which is also the birthplace the German deaths index gives her. It is corroborated on another continent: her son Julius Karl's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate gives his mother's maiden name as "Lossetta Loesch" — the given name garbled by an informant who never saw a Württemberg register, the surname right S68S133
• Wife of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, mother of Julius Karl Proeger S12
• ⚠ Her given name is still not settled, and a second ORIGINAL now backs Sabina. The 1844 Kirchberg baptism of her son calls her Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch S69; a Schwieberdingen family register, written by a different parish for a different purpose, calls her Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch S159. Two contemporaneous registers disagree and neither is overturned here. Her son's 1924 death certificate adds a third form, Lossetta S68. ⚠ That same Schwieberdingen page names a daughter, Christiane Juliane Prüger (1838–1911), and rejects Ancestry's offered residence of Schwieberdingen for her — she is named there as an absent parent, at Kirchberg.

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• ⚠️ Her date of birth is not settled, and is not going to be forced. The register states her age at death as 69 years, 3 months, 14 days, which counts back to late April 1803 — not the 26 May 1803 the index offers. Those digits sit at the edge of legibility even at full resolution. The image establishes spring 1803 at Crailsheim and no more; the record that would settle it is her baptism at Crailsheim, which is not in hand S133
• Name variants: Elisabeth Catharina (parish register), Elisabethe Sabina (FamilySearch index), Lossetta (death certificate) S12

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Friedrich August Proeger

WürttembergProbable

Evidence: A FamilySearch family tree only. Weak or missing: No baptism or burial entry has been read for him. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Uncle of 3rd great-grandfather · 1846–1852

• Born 1846, Kirchberg an der Jagst, Württemberg S12
• Died 1852, Württemberg, aged 5 S12
• Younger brother of Julius Karl Proeger S12

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Nancy Aileen Proeger

CaliforniaConfirmed

Aunt · 1937–1973

Nancy A. Proeger, senior portrait, 1955 — George Washington High School yearbook, Guam S311. Photo supplied by Earl Proeger.

• Born 6 April 1937, Niles, California S275 Confirmed — her own 1955 Oregon record of marriage gives Niles, California and 6 April 1937; the Social Security Death Index gives the same day S298. An earlier version of this card placed her birth in Texas on family testimony; that was an error. Earl, 23 September 2026: she was never in Texas.
• Died 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon, aged 35, as Nancy Wortman, her married name at her death S298 Confirmed — Oregon Death Index, certificate 73-01723; the Social Security Death Index agrees (born 6 April 1937, died January 1973). Earl recalls 1973, and Eileen's c. 1996 list already calls her deceased S205. An earlier version of this card gave a 2025 date in Austin; that was an error, carried over from Earl's mother, Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger.
• Took her own life, as reported on the front page of the Wallowa County Chieftain, Thursday 11 January 1973 S343 Confirmed — the paper says she died on Tuesday 9 January of a rifle shot, alone in a pickup parked near the boat ramp at the foot of Wallowa Lake, after a day-long search; she was found about 8:30 that evening. She was living in Enterprise and working at the Wallowa County Nursing Home, having earlier worked at the Fireplace, the Elks Lodge and the Gold Room in Joseph. The paper names her Nancy Belcourt Wortman, 35, twice divorced, and says she was survived by two daughters living with their father, Robert Belcourt, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and by a son and a daughter who had been living with her. The full obituary promised for the following week has not yet been found.
• Daughter of William Harry Proeger and Aileane Marie Silva S24
• Predated the 1940 marriage; Earl's direct testimony identifies William Harry as her father S24
• Grew up in the household of her stepfather, Earl Theodore Roberts: the 1950 census finds her at 13 at 219C Brush St, Alameda, with her mother, Roberts, Patricia and William, all three children enumerated as Roberts S215
• A senior at George Washington High School, Guam, in 1955, having transferred in 1954 from Astoria High School, Oregon; Junior Class Secretary S311 Confirmed
• 🆕 One of her daughters by Robert Belcourt was Elain Annett Belcourt, born in Texas in 1961. The state birth index names her parents as Robert George Belcourt and Nancy Aileen Proger [Proeger] Confirmed S1125.

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Patty Proeger

Family testimony

Aunt · living

• Living — no dates displayed
• Daughter of William Harry Proeger and Aileane Marie Silva S24
• Earl's aunt S24
• “P. Proeger” appears in a club photograph in the 1955 George Washington High School yearbook, Guam, where her sister Nancy was a senior S311 Probable confirm or correct →: the name comes from the OCR text and has not yet been read from the image

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Henry S. Roberts

Confirmed

Father of Anna Blanche Roberts · b. Nov 1854

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father of Anna Blanche Roberts in sources S90, S91 and S92.
• Born November 1854, West Virginia S90S92
• Father of Anna Blanche Roberts, with Rose A. Williams S90S91S92
• 🆕 Added 24 September 2026. In 1900 his wife Rose A., born November 1854 in West Virginia, had borne 13 children, 7 then living S92. Their son Harry, born 1889 at Bellaire, was in 1940 a glass-company laborer at Lansing, Belmont County, Ohio, with his wife Amelia and their daughters S352.
• 🆕 A likely childhood household: in 1860 H. S. L. Roberts, 5, born Ohio, was in a Roberts household at Martinsville (Martins Ferry), Belmont County, Ohio Probable confirm or correct → S1049. Evidence: the initials and age fit a November 1854 birth, and the family is just across the river from Wheeling. Weak: the census states no relationships and no document names his parents, so none are published here. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Johann Leonhard David Prüger

Confirmed

Father of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · 1772–1806

• Research status: CONFIRMED — his own baptism, both marriages and his burial have now been read from the register images S594S595S592S593
• Born 5 June 1772, Erkenbrechtshausen, baptised the next day at Triensbach, Württemberg, the son of Johann Michael Pröger and Anna Margaretha Raisig S594
• A master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen in 1796, 1806 and at his father's death; the 1804 birth register calls him Tüncher Mstr., a master whitewasher, and his son's 1870 burial entry a Maler S595S591S12
• 🆕 First married Anna Maria Busch, November 1796 (banns at Ellrichshausen, wedding at Triensbach). Their first son, Johann Michael Pröger, was born at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 April 1797 and baptised that day at Triensbach, Georg Melchior Julius's full brother Confirmed S623. She is the mother of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, born 25 July 1804 S595S591. 🆕 Johann Michael, a day labourer at Großaltdorf, married Anna Barbara Hübner of Großaltdorf (born 27 April 1801) there on 17 June 1829 Confirmed S737S779; the Großaltdorf copy of the entry also names the bride's mother, Anna Catharina (surname unclear, perhaps Frinauer); the index’s 17 January is wrong. Their children, all baptised at Großaltdorf: Margaretha Barbara (20 January 1829–23 January 1831), Johann Georg (1830–1904), Johann Simon (1832), Johann Friedrich (1834–1907) and Barbara (1843) Probable — the baptisms of the three sons are index entries only, their images not yet read S739. 🆕 Two of the daughters' entries have now been read. Margaretha Barbara was born on 20 January 1829, five months before her parents married, and died of convulsions on 23 January 1831, aged two; she was buried on 25 January, the date the index and the tree took for her death Confirmed S788. Barbara was born on 8 January 1843 and baptised on 12 January, the daughter of J. M. Pröger, citizen and day labourer, and Anna Barbara geb. Hübner Confirmed S789. added 27 September 2026 Add to this record →. 🆕 Two of the sons' burial entries have now been read. Johann Georg, an unmarried cottager, died at Kleinaltdorf on 28 February 1904 and was buried at Großaltdorf on 2 March Confirmed S778. Johann Friedrich, a weaver, died at Hausen on 31 May 1907 and was buried at Untersontheim on 2 June Confirmed S777; the index had put his death at Merkelbach. His burial entry gives his birth as 30 September 1834, where the tree has 6 October (perhaps the baptism); the 1834 baptism would settle it. added 26 September 2026. No emigration record is found for him.
• 🆕 Married second, as a widower, 4 March 1806 at Triensbach, Eva Barbara Schmidt, daughter of Johann Michael Schmidt, master weaver at Brettenfeld. She was Georg Melchior Julius's stepmother. The index's 2 March is the last reading of the banns S592
• Died of a fever at Erkenbrechtshausen in December 1806, aged 34; buried 21 December. His son Georg Friedrich was born ten weeks later S593. 🆕 Georg Friedrich became a weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen like his father and married Maria Margaretha Stegmaier at Triensbach on 20 September 1836 Confirmed S738. 🆕 He was dead by September 1864, when their son Georg Friedrich (born 25 December 1838) married Margaretha Barbara Bauer of Gröningen at Triensbach; the register calls the father “† Georg Friedrich Pröger, weaver and cottager” S775. 🆕 That couple's daughter Rosine Barbara Pröger was born at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 September 1865; she married Georg Friedrich Osterlein at Triensbach on 26 March 1889 and died on 26 October 1952 Confirmed S790. added 27 September 2026. Maria Margaretha married again, to Johann Leonhard Frank, a weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, and died his widow at Triensbach on 16 May 1887; her burial entry names her parents, Georg Simon Stegmaier and Katharina Batz S776. Both entries carry family register II,343. A second Georg Friedrich Pröger, a living master weaver (register II,344), was at Erkenbrechtshausen in 1864, so the register number is what ties these to ours. added 26 September 2026.

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Hanß Pröger

Probable

Evidence: The 1704 Michelbach marriage register, which names him as the groom's father, a farmer at Seibotenberg; his own second marriage, as a widower, in the Michelbach register of 7 November 1699. Weak or missing: Two entries only; his dates, his first wife, his other children and his own parents have not been found. The two candidates for his father come from a later copy of the baptism register, not the original, and no record yet links either one to him. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Father of Hans Pröger · farmer at Seibotenberg

• Research status: PROBABLE — named only once, as the father of the groom in the 1704 marriage register, read from the image S607. Added 26 September 2026
• A farmer at Seibotenberg, a hamlet of Michelbach an der Heide parish, now part of Gerabronn; Pröger households are recorded there from 1709 to 1726 S610
• Father of Hans (Johann) Pröger, who married at Triensbach in 1704 S607
• 🆕 A widower by 1699: on 7 November 1699 at Michelbach an der Heide, “Hannß Pröger, Bauer zu Seibothenberg … ein Wittiber” married Regina, widow of the late Jörg W[einmann?] S666. So Hans’s mother had died before then, and Regina was his stepmother. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Who his father was is not known. Two Seibotenberg farmers are candidates, below. His own baptism, which would settle it, has not been found. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Leading candidate for his father: Hans Pröger and his wife Anna, of Seibotenberg Probable, weak Evidence: a later-hand copy of the Seibotenberg baptisms, which begins in 1651, lists their sons Leonhard, baptised 21 August 1652, and Melchior, 15 June 1655, probably the Leonhard and Melchior Pröger who married at Michelbach in 1681 and 1677; a Johannes Pröger stands godfather there in March 1651; and Anna was a widow by October 1665 S674. On that reading Hanß would be an elder son, born before the copy starts. Weak or missing: Hanß’s baptism would predate the register; the copy is not the original; and no record names his father or links him to this household. Know more? Add to this record → added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Second candidate: Philipp Pröger, a farmer at Seibotenberg Probable, weak Evidence: buried at Michelbach in March 1705 aged “77 less a quarter year”, so born about 1628, old enough to be Hanß’s father; he married Apollonia Sch[..]lerin at Michelbach on 1 August 1676, probably as a widower S673. Weak or missing: no record names any child of his; he could as well be Hanß’s elder brother or uncle; nothing links him to Hanß. Know more? Add to this record → added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Where he died is not known. He was not buried at Michelbach in 1704 or 1705 (both years read in full), and the Michelbach burials for January 1706 to 1721 are missing from the film S673. He was not buried at Triensbach, where his son farmed, between 1705 and 1721 either S675. added 26 September 2026.
• His dates and his first wife’s name are not known

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Hans Schuster

Probable

Evidence: Elisabetha Schuster's 1678 Lendsiedel baptism names her father Hans Schuster of Nieder-Schmerach; the 1676 Lendsiedel marriage and the 1699 Ilshofen remarriage, as a widower of Unter-Schmerach, fit the same man; all read from the register images. Weak or missing: Each is a single register entry, a second Hans Schuster in the hamlet is not ruled out, and his baptism and burial are not found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Father of Elisabetha Schuster · of Unter-Schmerach

• Research status: PROBABLE. Elisabetha Schuster’s 1678 Lendsiedel baptism names her father as Hans Schuster of Nieder-Schmerach and her mother Maria S609; the 1676 Lendsiedel marriage of Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach and Anna Maria Gronbach, and his 1699 second marriage as a widower of Unter-Schmerach, fit the same man S805S806. All read from the register images. What is weak: each is a single register entry, and a second Hans Schuster in the hamlet cannot be ruled out. Added 29 September 2026
• Son of Michel Schuster, by a partly legible margin note on his 1676 marriage Probable confirm or correct → S805
• Married Anna Maria Gronbach at Lendsiedel on 29 February 1676 S805
• Father of Elisabetha Schuster, baptised at Lendsiedel on 18 November 1678 S609
• As “Johannes Schuster, widower of Unter-Schmerach”, he married second Anna Barbara Schuhmann, daughter of Jörg Schuhmann, at Ilshofen on 22 August 1699 S806
• His baptism and his burial are not found

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Anna Maria Gronbach

Probable

Evidence: The 1676 Lendsiedel marriage names her as the daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger of Groß-Allmerspann, and Elisabetha's 1678 baptism names her parents Hans Schuster and Maria; a Langenburg baptism of December 1652 records Anna Maria, child of Johannes Gronbach and Eva; all read from the register images. Weak or missing: Her place as Elisabetha's mother rests on single entries; the 1652 child is taken to be the 1676 bride only because the father, hamlet and name match; her burial is not found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Mother of Elisabetha Schuster · 1652–before 1699

• Research status: PROBABLE as the mother of Elisabetha Schuster. Elisabetha’s 1678 baptism names her parents as Hans Schuster of Nieder-Schmerach and Maria S609, and Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach married Anna Maria Gronbach at Lendsiedel in 1676 S805. Both read from the register images. What is weak: each is a single register entry, and a second Hans Schuster in the hamlet cannot be ruled out. Her own father is confirmed by the 1676 entry. Added 29 September 2026
• Daughter of Hans (Johannes) Gronbach the younger, a farmer at Groß-Allmerspann, as the 1676 marriage states S805; her mother was probably Eva Kreber Probable confirm or correct → S837
• Baptised at Langenburg in December 1652, the daughter of Johannes Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann and Eva S837. This is taken to be the same Anna Maria because the father, the hamlet and the given name all match; she would have been 23 at her marriage
• Married Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach at Lendsiedel on 29 February 1676 S805
• Mother of Elisabetha Schuster S609
• She died before 22 August 1699, when Hans remarried as a widower S806. Her burial has not been found. Some trees call her only “Maria”, as the 1678 baptism does

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Hans (Johannes) Gronbach

Confirmed

Father of Anna Maria Gronbach · farmer at Groß-Allmerspann

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Anna Maria Gronbach. The Lendsiedel marriage register of 29 February 1676 names the bride as “Anna Maria, Hannß Gronbachs deß jüngern, [Bauers] zu großen Allmerspann, ehelich ledige Tochter”, the legitimate daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger, farmer at Groß-Allmerspann S805; and the Langenburg baptism register for December 1652 records Anna Maria, child of Johannes Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann and Eva S837. Both were read from the register images. Added 29 September 2026
• Father of Anna Maria Gronbach, baptised at Langenburg in December 1652, who married Hans Schuster at Lendsiedel in 1676 S805S837
• Married Eva Kreber (Kerber), surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann, on 27 November 1649, by the Langenburg marriage register S836
• Called “the younger” because his father was also a Hans Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann: the 1649 marriage calls him the legitimate son of Hans Gronbach S836
• ⚠️ Not the Hans Gronbach who was a baker at Untermünkheim. That man’s daughter Anna Maria, christened 28 December 1653, had a mother named Margaretha, and FamilySearch indexes an Anna Maria Gronbach, born 1653, daughter of Johann, who died at Hall on 20 November 1669 (1:1:QP5Q-VYQK), years before the 1676 marriage
• His baptism and burial appear in card indexes, but those register images have not been read, so no dates are given here

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Eva Kreber

Probable

Evidence: Her 1649 marriage to Hans Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann, as the surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber, and the December 1652 Langenburg baptism of Anna Maria to Johannes Gronbach and Eva; both read from the register images. Weak or missing: The 1676 marriage names only Anna Maria's father, so the link rests on the 1652 child being the 1676 bride; her death is not found; her 1631 baptism, which names her father Georg Kreber, is now read (S1077). Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable mother of Anna Maria Gronbach

• Research status: PROBABLE. Eva, the surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber (or Kerber) of Groß-Allmerspann, married Hans Gronbach, son of Hans Gronbach of the same place, on 27 November 1649 S836; and in December 1652 an Anna Maria was baptised at Langenburg to Johannes Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann and Eva S837. Both read from the register images. What is weak: the 1676 marriage of Anna Maria names only her father S805, so the link rests on the 1652 child being the 1676 bride (the same father, hamlet and given name). Added 29 September 2026
• Probable mother of Anna Maria Gronbach S837
• Married Hans (Johannes) Gronbach on 27 November 1649 S836
• 🆕 Baptised 22 November 1631 at Langenburg, the child of Georg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspach and Maria, by the Langenburg baptism register, read from the image Confirmed S1077. Daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann by the 1649 marriage entry, the same man; her father now has a card: Georg Kreber S836. added 30 September 2026
• The registers call her only Eva. The name “Elisabetha” and the death in 1712 that some online trees give her are not supported by any record read here; her 1631 baptism now is. Her death is not found

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Michel Schuster

Probable

Evidence: A margin insertion beside Hans Schuster's 1676 Lendsiedel marriage makes the groom the son of a late Michel Schüster. Weak or missing: The rest of the margin note and its place name are not legible, no baptism of Hans has been found, and Michel's own dates are unknown. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable father of Hans Schuster · dead by 1676

• Research status: PROBABLE. A margin insertion beside Hans Schuster’s 1676 marriage entry reads roughly “u. Michel Schüsters deß gewesenen …bauern zu Kl…”, making the groom the son of a late Michel Schüster S805. What is weak: the words after “gewesenen” and the place name are not legible, and no baptism of Hans has been found. Added 29 September 2026
• Probable father of Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach S805
• He was dead by 29 February 1676, when the marriage entry calls him “gewesen” (the late)
• Online trees that give him a birth in 1600 and a death in 1675 merge more than one man and are not followed here. His wife, his birth and his burial are not found

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Edward Gregg

Confirmed

Father of Ethel Gregg Proeger · 1849–1905

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Ethel Gregg, wife of Frederick Albert Proeger. Ethel’s 1957 Pennsylvania death certificate, read from the image, names her father as Edward Gregg and her mother as Elizabeth Darling S423; the 1880 census, read from the image, has Edward Gregg, 30, working in a planing mill at Carmichaels, Greene County, with his wife Lizzie, 26, and daughters Ethel, 4, and Mabel, 1 S416. FamilySearch indexes the same household as 1:1:MWFF-3W2, with Edward as Ethel’s father. Added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 28 September 2026. Added 29 September 2026; his birth, death and parents added the same day from the Pittsburgh registers, read from the images
• Father of Ethel Gregg (1875–1957), who married Frederick Albert Proeger in 1896 S417S423, and of Mabel Gregg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, who married William Spicer MacDonald in Westmoreland County on 21 November 1906 and died on 30 January 1968; her own death certificate names her parents as Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling S930S931
• Husband of Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling S416S423
• Born 11 September 1849 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, by his own statement on his 1892 marriage docket S926; his age at death, 56 years and 7 days, fits S927, and so does his age of 30 in 1880 S416. He is Edwin, 8 months old, in Alfred and Mary Gregg’s household in Cumberland Township, Greene County, in 1850 S928, and Edwin, 10, in the same household in 1860 S929
• Son of Alfred Gregg and Mary Gregg, both born in Greene County, as his death register names them S927 Confirmed
• Died 19 September 1905 at 681 South Lang Avenue, Pittsburgh (22nd Ward), a contractor, aged 56, of heart disease, and buried at Carmichaels on 22 September 1905; the register names him Edwin Alexander Gregg S927. The same undertaker had buried Lizzie in 1891 S925
• Married secondly, on 28 September 1892 at Pittsburgh, Sarah E. Wright, born in Washington County on 28 December 1861. The docket calls the groom Augustus E. Gregg, a contractor of the 20th Ward, born in Greene County on 11 September 1849, whose first marriage had been ended by his wife’s death S926 Probable confirm or correct →
• What is weak or missing: his records use three names. He is Edward in the 1880 census and on both daughters’ death certificates, Augustus E. on the 1892 docket and Edwin Alexander on the death register, and no record explains Augustus. That the Augustus E. Gregg of 1892 is the same man rests on the matching birth date, the ward and his widowhood, not on any record that says so. His first marriage, to Lizzie about 1875, has not been found
• 🆕 His daughter Mabel lived with her husband William S. MacDonald in Greensburg, Westmoreland County: at 550 Harrison Avenue in 1920 S1028, and at 224 Underwood Avenue in 1930, 1940 and 1950 S1029S1030S1031, the address on her death certificate Confirmed. Her 1930 age, 47, is about four years short. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In June 1870 he was living with his mother, Mary Gregg, 65, in the Borough of Carmichaels, Greene County, as Augustus E., 20, a carpenter born in Pennsylvania; Mary owned real estate worth $7,500 Confirmed S1034. Alfred is not in the household, so Mary was probably a widow by 1870. This fills the gap between the 1860 household and his 1880 work at the planing mill. added 29 September 2026

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Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling

Confirmed

Mother of Ethel Gregg Proeger · about 1854–1891

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the mother of Ethel Gregg, wife of Frederick Albert Proeger. Ethel’s 1957 Pennsylvania death certificate, read from the image, names her mother as Elizabeth Darling S423; the 1880 census, read from the image, has Lizzie, 26, as Edward Gregg’s wife at Carmichaels, Greene County, with daughters Ethel, 4, and Mabel, 1 S416. FamilySearch indexes the same household (1:1:MWFF-3W2) with Lizzie as Ethel’s mother. Added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 28 September 2026. Added 29 September 2026
• Wife of Edward Gregg S416
• Mother of Ethel Gregg (1875–1957), who married Frederick Albert Proeger S423, and of Mabel Gregg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, whose own death certificate also names her mother as Elizabeth Darling S931
• Born about 1854 in Virginia, by her age of 26 in 1880 S416 and of 36 years 11 months at her death S925
• Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling died 30 May 1891 at Pittsburgh (20th Ward), of pneumonia, aged 36, as Lizzie D. Gregg, formerly of Carmichaels, and buried at Carmichaels on 1 June 1891 S925
• What is weak: her maiden name Darling rests on her two daughters’ death certificates S423S931 and on Mabel’s middle name, Darling, in her 1906 marriage docket S930; the 1891 register gives only the initial D. Her parents and her marriage, about 1875, have not been found. The birth date of 21 June 1853 and the middle initial “B” that some trees give her are unsourced, and 1853 is a year earlier than her ages allow

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Mabel Gregg MacDonald

Confirmed

Daughter of Edward Gregg · 1878–1968

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the daughter of Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling and the sister of Ethel Gregg, wife of Frederick Albert Proeger. Her own 1968 death certificate, read from the image, names her father as Edward Gregg and her mother as Elizabeth Darling and gives her birth on 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels S931; her 1906 marriage docket, read from the image, gives the same birth date and place and her middle name, Darling S930; the 1880 census, read from the image, has Mabel, 1, in Edward and Lizzie Gregg's household at Carmichaels S416. Card added 1 October 2026
• Born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, Greene County, Pennsylvania S930S931
• Married William Spicer MacDonald, a clerk of New York, in Westmoreland County on 21 November 1906, she then of East Liberty S930
• 🆕 On 12 September 1918 her husband registered for the draft at Greensburg: William Spicer MacDonald, 38, of 550 Harrison Avenue, born 31 October 1879, a naturalized citizen, commercial representative of the C. D. Telephone Co.; nearest relative “Mabel Gregg MacDonald, wife”, of the same address Confirmed S1107. His docket of 1906 gives his birth year as 1876 S930
• At 550 Harrison Avenue, Greensburg, in 1920 S1028, and at 224 Underwood Avenue in 1930, 1940 and 1950 S1029S1030S1031
• Died a widow on 30 January 1968 in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County S931
• 🆕 The Greensburg birth certificate of her third child, a daughter born in June 1913, gives her as Mabel Gregg, 34, born at Carmichaels, and her husband as William S. McDonald, 35, a salesman born at North Sydney, Nova Scotia. Three children were then living Confirmed S1135.

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Artie Morrison

Confirmed

Mother of Bessie Hill Henderson · Roberts step-line

• Named as the mother of Bessie Hill Henderson on Bessie's Vermont birth record, Ryegate, 10 December 1890: father Henry Henderson, farmer; mother Artie Morrison of Topsham S195
• 🆕 Full name Harriet Artimiza (Artemiza) Morrison, born at Ryegate, Vermont, 18 October 1867, daughter of Orange G. Morrison and Elizabeth J. Miller S359; added 24 September 2026.
• In 1870, aged 3, in her father's farm household at Ryegate with her sisters Winona, Marion and Margaret S360.
• Married Henry W. Henderson at Ryegate on 1 January 1887 S357; in 1930 at Ryegate with Henry and their daughter Winona Sulham's family S358.
• 🆕 Her Ryegate birth return of 1867 names her as Artemiza, daughter of Orange Morrison, farmer, and Lizzie Miller, both born at Ryegate S832. In 1880 she was 12, at school, in their household at Ryegate S833, and a FamilySearch index of her marriage names her parents as O. G. Morrison and Elisabeth Miller S834. added 28 September 2026.
• Died at Ryegate on 7 December 1930, aged 63, as Harriet Artimiza Henderson, of lobar pneumonia S359.
• 🆕 The bride's card for her 1887 marriage gives her age as 19 and her parents as O. G. Morrison and Elizabeth (Miller) Confirmed S949. In January 1920 she was Artemiza, 52, on Henry's dairy farm at Ryegate with their son James and daughter Winona Confirmed S950. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 Her son James Henderson, born in Vermont on 7 February 1898, died at Woodsville, New Hampshire, on 16 March 1968; his death certificate gives his mother’s maiden name as Morrison Confirmed S1147.

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Earl Theodore Roberts

Confirmed

Step-grandfather · 1918–2007

Earl Theodore Roberts aboard USS Wexford County (LST-1168), Pearl Harbor, 1958, from the hand-written label on the original print. Family photograph supplied by Earl Proeger.

• Born 7 May 1918, Windsor, Massachusetts S88 S299
• Died 26 February 2007 S88
• Third husband of Aileane Marie Silva, married 8 February 1946, Los Angeles S88
• Military service — U.S. Navy, 1938 to after 1960.
  • Pay-entry base date 17 August 1938, which dates his first enlistment S266. The 1940 census, taken 15 June 1940 at his parents' farm in Hancock, Massachusetts, gives Earl, 22, as U.S. Navy; his brother Almon was in the U.S. Army S274
  • Enlisted 17 August 1938 at Springfield, Massachusetts, service number 212 50 12 S301
  • Second World War, Pacific. He was a plankowner of the destroyer USS Anderson (DD-411), joining her when she was commissioned in May 1939 and serving in her until August 1942 as ship's cook first class. That took him through the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway S302 Confirmed. Earl Proeger's account is that he fought in the Pacific S300
  • August 1942: sent to the Commissary Steward School, San Diego; re-enlisted 19 September 1942. On USS LST-455 from 27 February 1943 S303, and chief commissary steward on her by June 1944 S312
  • The galley story. In his obituary's words, when enemy dive bombers wrecked his destroyer's galley he fed the crew with the blacksmith's forge and a welder's torch S299. USS Anderson's recorded history for his time aboard shows no such attack, so the ship and the battle of this story are unidentified
  • 1950: Armed Forces, living at 219C Brush St, Alameda, beside the Naval Air Station S215
  • Guam, after the war. A family scrapbook page is captioned “May 1956 Guam Earl & Kathie”. Earl Proeger says he was stationed there as an officer and that Bill went through high school on Guam in those years S300. His stepdaughters Nancy and Patty Proeger were at George Washington High School, Guam, in 1954–55 S311, and his stepson Bill was a freshman there, enrolled as “B. Roberts” S313
  • Chief Warrant Officer W-4 from 1 February 1958 (Navy Register 1960, p. 664) S266. In 1958 he served aboard USS Wexford County (LST-1168) at Pearl Harbor, according to the handwritten caption on a family photograph
  • Served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Retired as CWO-4 to National City, California, and is honoured by a plaque at the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial, La Jolla S299
  • Not yet found: his ships between mid-1944 and 1958, the Guam unit and its dates, and his retirement date
• Stepfather to William Leonard Proeger, not biological father S24
• One child: Kathy Roberts (living) S24
• In 1930, aged 11, at Hancock, Massachusetts, with his parents Leon H. and Bessie H. Roberts S214. In 1950 he was in the Armed Forces, at 219C Brush St, Alameda, with Aileane and her three children S215
• His father, Leon Henry Roberts, was born 14 July 1882 at Lowell, Vermont, and was living at Ryegate in 1900 with his parents Henry and Delina and his brothers Theodore, Homer and Elmer S340. He was farming at Windsor, Mass. in 1918 S337 and on Main Road, Hancock, in 1942 S338, and he died at Hancock on 4 May 1961 S339. Leon's first wife, Grace May Avery, drowned on 5 July 1908, a year after their wedding S341. Earl's sister Bernice Louise Roberts married Charles Jay McDonald at Williamstown on 30 August 1940 S342
• ⚠ No relation to Anna Blanche Roberts — different Roberts family S88

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Henry Henderson

Confirmed

Father of Bessie Hill Henderson · Roberts step-line

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father on Bessie Hill Henderson's 1890 Vermont birth record, S195.
• Farmer; father of Bessie Hill Henderson, born 10 December 1890 at Ryegate, Vermont; her mother Artie Morrison of Topsham S195
• 🆕 Full name Henry William Henderson, born at Ryegate 12 June 1864, son of William J. Henderson and Carrie K. (Gilfillan) S357S361; added 24 September 2026.
• Married Artie H. Morrison at Ryegate on 1 January 1887 S357. In 1930 a dairy farmer at Ryegate, aged 65, with his wife and their daughter Winona Sulham's family S358.
• Died at South Ryegate on 30 March 1949, aged 84, a retired farmer and a widower; informant his daughter Winona M. Sulham S361.
• 🆕 In January 1920, 55, on his own (mortgaged) Ryegate dairy farm in 1920 with Artemiza, 52, their son James, 21, and daughter Winona, 14 Confirmed S950. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In July 1870, aged 6, Henry W. was at school and in the Ryegate household of William J. Henderson, 41, a farmer, and Caroline, 32, with Virginia, 14, Capitola, 10, and Sarah, 72, born Maine Confirmed S963. That census states no relationships; his parents are named in S357S361. His age there fits the 1864 birth. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In 1910 Henry W. Henderson, 44, was farming his own mortgaged farm at Ryegate with his wife Addie M. (married 23 years, six children, five living) and Marion E., James M. and Winnona M. Confirmed S1039. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In April 1940, 75, he was living at South Ryegate as the father-in-law of Perley A. Sulham, in the household of his daughter Winona M. Sulham, the informant; usual occupation farmer, now unable to work Confirmed S1051. The enumerator wrote him “single”, surely a slip, and marked him a veteran of an “other war or expedition”, which is not yet explained. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In June 1880, aged 15, he was at school and at home in Ryegate with his parents William J., 51, a farmer, and Caroline K., 43, and his sister Virginia J., 24, all born Vermont. It is the first census read here that enters them as his parents; his 1887 marriage card S357 and his death card S361 name the same William J. and Carrie (Caroline) K. Confirmed S1087
• 🆕 His son James Henderson, born in Vermont on 7 February 1898, died at Woodsville, New Hampshire, on 16 March 1968, married, with a wife Hazel; his death certificate names his father as Henry Henderson and his mother’s maiden name as Morrison Confirmed S1147. The informant was the hospital, not the family.

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Henry Roberts

Confirmed

Father of Leon H. Roberts · Roberts step-line

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father on Leon H. Roberts's 1907 Vermont marriage record, S196.
• Born Westford, Vermont S196
• Father of Leon H. Roberts, with Delina Deblois (born Fairfax, Vt.), named on Leon's 1907 Newbury marriage record S196
• ⚠️ A different man from Henry S. Roberts of West Virginia
• 🆕 Married Delina Deblois at Westfield, Vermont, on 12 June 1867, by a Catholic priest. He was 22, a labourer, born at Westford, and the card calls him Henry Roberts Jr., son of Henry Roberts and Laura Confirmed S954. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In June 1880 he was farming at Westfield, 35, with Delina, 27, and three children: Leora, 4, Theodore, 3, and Alice, 7 months. Leon was born two years later Confirmed S955. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 Died a widower at Newbury, Vermont, on 2 November 1924, aged 80; born 29 October 1844. His father was Henry Roberts, Sr., born at Three Rivers (Trois-Rivières), Canada Confirmed S956. The death card gives his birthplace as "Westboro", which is not a Vermont town, so the site keeps Westford. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In June 1870 he was a farm labourer at Westfield, 25, with Delina, 17, and a daughter Emma, 1. Both are recorded as born in Vermont to foreign-born parents Confirmed S1133. His son Elmer E. Roberts, born 5 March 1888, drowned at Bath, New Hampshire, on 5 July 1908, aged 20; the death return names his parents as Henry Roberts Jr., born Westford, and Delina Delois S1134.

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Jane Bell

TexasProbable

Evidence: A FamilySearch family tree and family testimony. Weak or missing: No birth, marriage or death record has been read; c.1879 and 1955 are unsourced. William Leonard Proeger's wife until her death in August 1942 was Anna Blanche Roberts, and his own 1955 death notices name no wife, so a marriage to Jane Bell could only fall between August 1942 and December 1955, and none has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Possible wife of William Leonard Proeger Sr · c.1879–1955

⚠ Not to be confused with Jane Bell (Martin), c.1794–1798, of Sumner County, Tennessee — Earl's 3rd-great-grandmother and the wife of Peter Hines Martin. Two different women, four generations apart, with the same name. No Sumner County fact belongs on this card.

• Born c.1879, Texas S12
• Died 1955 S12
• Wife of William Leonard Proeger Sr (1876–1955), as a family tree has it; not proven, see the hold below S12S24
• ⚠️ Not the mother of William Harry Proeger. A family tree and family testimony listed her as his mother S24, but his own sworn 1932 Ohio licence application gives his mother's maiden name as Anna B. Roberts S144, and Anna Blanche was William Leonard's wife until she died in August 1942 S1175. William Harry's mother is Anna Blanche Roberts.
• ⚠️ Hold on the marriage. William Leonard's death notices of 15 and 16 December 1955 list his children and sisters and name no wife S1176S1177. She stays on the record only as a possible later wife, until a Los Angeles County marriage record of 1942–1955 turns up.

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Kathy Roberts

Family testimony

Half-aunt · living

• Living — no dates displayed
• Daughter of Aileane Marie Silva and Earl Theodore Roberts S24
• Earl's half-aunt S24

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Orange G. Morrison

Confirmed

Father of Artie Morrison

• Research status: CONFIRMED as Artie Morrison's father — her Ryegate birth return of 1867 names her father as Orange Morrison, farmer, born at Ryegate S832, and her 1930 death record names him as Orange G. Morrison, born at Ryegate, with the same birth date for her, 18 October 1867 S359. A FamilySearch index of her Vermont marriage also names O. G. Morrison as her father S834
• Father of Artie Morrison (Harriet Artemiza); husband of Elizabeth J. (Lizzie) Miller S832S359
• Born at Ryegate, Vermont S832S359, about 1832: he was 38 in 1870 and 48 in 1880 S360S833
• A farmer at Ryegate. In 1870 he held real estate worth $3,150, with Elizabeth, 37, and their daughters Winona, Marion, Margaret and Artemiza S360. In 1880 he was 48, with Elisabeth J., 46, and the daughters Marion E., 19, Maggie J., 14, and Artemiza, 12 S833
• His death has not been read from a record. A memorial website gives 1912; that is not confirmed here
• 🆕 In 1900 Orange G. Morrison, born in February 1832, a gardener, and Elizabeth J., married 45 years, lived with their daughter Maggie J. in Caledonia County Confirmed S975. On 16 April 1910 he was still living, 78, at Groton Village with Elizabeth J., 76, married 55 years, in Maggie J.'s house Confirmed S976. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In 1860 Orange, 28, farmed at Ryegate (post office South Ryegate) with real estate worth $1,500, with Eliza, 24, and “Winny”, 4; the next house was Bradley Morrison's, 57 Confirmed S982. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 His probable parents: in 1850 Orange, 17, a laborer at school, was in the Ryegate household of Bradley Morrison, 48, farmer, and Avis, 47, with James, 15, and Harriet J., 11, all born Vermont Probable confirm or correct → S987. Evidence: the same town, name and age, and Bradley next door in 1860 S982. Weak: the 1850 census states no relationships, and no record read names his parents. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 His daughter Marion E. Morrison died, single, at Littleton, New Hampshire, on 10 February 1892, aged 30 years 10 months, of meningitis, and was buried at Groton, Vermont; the death return names her father as Orange G. Morrison, farmer, born Ryegate Confirmed S994. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In June 1863 he registered for the Civil War draft at Ryegate as “Morrison Orange, 31”, a married farmer born Vermont, which puts his birth about 1832 Confirmed S1088

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Elizabeth J. (Lizzie) Miller

Confirmed

Mother of Artie Morrison

• Research status: CONFIRMED as Artie Morrison's mother — Artie's 1867 Ryegate birth return gives her mother's maiden name as Lizzie Miller, born at Ryegate S832, and her 1930 death record gives it as Elizabeth J. Miller, born at Ryegate S359. In the 1880 census she is Orange G. Morrison's wife, with Artemiza, 12, as a daughter in the house S833. A FamilySearch index of Artie's marriage also names Elizabeth Miller as her mother S834
• Mother of Artie Morrison (Harriet Artemiza); wife of Orange G. Morrison
• Born at Ryegate, Vermont S832S359, about 1833–34: she was 37 in 1870 and 46 in 1880 S360S833. The 1880 census gives her father's birthplace as Vermont and her mother's as Scotland S833
• Her death has not been read from a record. A memorial website gives 5 December 1911 at Groton, Vermont; that is not confirmed here
• 🆕 In 1900 Elizabeth J. Morrison, born in October 1834, her mother born in Scotland, and Orange G., married 45 years, lived with their daughter Maggie J. in Caledonia County Confirmed S975; in April 1910 she was 76, at Groton Village, married 55 years Confirmed S976. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In 1860, as Eliza, 24, she was in Orange Morrison's household at Ryegate with “Winny”, 4 Confirmed S982. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 Her daughter Marion E. Morrison died, single, at Littleton, New Hampshire, on 10 February 1892, aged 30 years 10 months, and was buried at Groton, Vermont; the death return names her mother as Elizabeth J. Miller, born Ryegate Confirmed S994. added 29 September 2026

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Johann Adam Scheuermann

Confirmed

Father of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck

• Research status: CONFIRMED as Maria Margaretha's father — her own marriage entry in the Gerabronn register, 8 April 1766, calls her Maria Margaretha Scheuermännin, the daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann of Gerabronn S814, and the Gerabronn baptism register for 1743 records a Maria Margaretha born to him S815. Both read from the register images
• Father of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck
• A Brandenburg subject, a Köbler (smallholder) and the common herdsman (Gemeiner Hirt) of Gerabronn S815S835
• A widower when he married Eva Margaretha Stapf, daughter of the late Andreas Stapf of Wollmershausen, on 16 January 1742, by the Gerabronn marriage register S835. His first wife is not yet named
• His birth and death are not documented. The years 1692 and 1744 in some trees are not supported by any record read

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Eva Margaretha Stapf

Probable

Evidence: The 1743 Gerabronn baptism of Maria Margaretha names her mother as Johann Adam Scheuermann's wife Eva Margaretha (the clerk corrected Maria to Eva), and the 1742 marriage register, with the same correction, makes Eva Margaretha the daughter of the late Andreas Stapf of Wollmershausen; both read from the register images. Weak or missing: Johann Adam was a widower in January 1742 and the 1766 marriage names only the bride's father, so an elder Maria Margaretha by his first wife is not ruled out; the day of the 1743 baptism is on an unread leaf. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable mother of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck

• Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The Gerabronn baptism register for 1743 names the mother of Maria Margaretha, daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann, as his wife Margaretha, the clerk striking out “Maria” and writing “Eva” S815; the 1742 marriage entry, with the same correction, makes Eva Margaretha the daughter of the late Andreas Stapf S835. What is weak: Johann Adam was a widower when he married her in January 1742, and the 1766 marriage names only the bride's father S814, so an elder Maria Margaretha by his first wife cannot be ruled out, though a bride of 23 in 1766 fits the child of 1743
• Probable mother of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck; wife of Johann Adam Scheuermann, married 16 January 1742, by the Gerabronn marriage register S835
• Daughter of the late Andreas Stapf (written Stapfens, the genitive form), a subject of the Prince of Comburg and a farmer at Wollmershausen S835
• FamilySearch indexes the same 1742 marriage as 1:1:QPP2-DKBY, and a baptism of a son, Johann Georg, to Johann Adam Schuermann and Eva Margareta as 1:1:QPP2-7PK4 S835
• Her birth and death dates are not found

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Maria Dorothea Wolf

Probable

Evidence: The FamilySearch-derived indexes of Elisabethe Sabina Lösch's baptism and of her 1835 Triensbach marriage both name her mother as Maria Dorothea Wolf. Weak or missing: Both are indexes with no image read, and Elisabethe Sabina's 1872 burial entry, read from the register, gives her mother as Maria Dorothea geb. Muck; the maiden name is unresolved. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable mother of Elisabethe Sabina Loesch

• Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Two FamilySearch-derived indexes, of Elisabethe Sabina Lösch's baptism S840 and of her 1835 marriage at Triensbach to Georg Melchior Julius Proeger S122, name her mother as Maria Dorothea Wolf. What is weak: both are indexes, with no register image read. ⚠️ Elisabethe Sabina's own 1872 burial entry, read from the register, gives her mother as Maria Dorothea geb. Muck and her father's middle name as Heinrich, not Friedrich S133. The given name agrees; the maiden name is in conflict and is not resolved here
• Probable mother of Elisabethe Sabina Loesch; wife of Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch, a master glazier of Crailsheim (the indexes call him Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch) S133S122
• Of Crailsheim, Württemberg S122. She was dead by August 1872: the burial entry marks her deceased S133
• Her birth, marriage and death dates are not found. A Crailsheim baptism register for 1803, or the Triensbach marriage register for 1835, would settle her maiden name

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Eva Barbara (Renk)

Confirmed

Mother of Georg Michael Renk

• Research status: CONFIRMED as Georg Michael Renk's mother — his burial entry in the Wallhausen register for 1814, no. 8, read from the image, names his parents as Georg Sebastian Renk, a mason at Wallhausen, and Eva Barbara, both Lutheran S921. It is our Georg Michael: a mason at Wallhausen and the widower of Maria Barbara, as in his son Georg Andreas's 1813 marriage entry S443. Confirmed 28 September 2026
• Mother of Georg Michael Renk, and so a 5th-great-grandmother of Minnie Kochendoerfer's children. Wife of Georg Sebastian Renk, a mason at Wallhausen, named in the same entry
• The register gives her given names only. The family tree's surname Kochendörfer, and a birth on 10 July 1703 and death on 24 November 1790, are on no record read and are not published here as fact. FamilySearch indexes the same 1814 burial entry; it is not a second record S922

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Elisabetha Schuster

Probable

Evidence: Her 1678 Lendsiedel baptism, her 1701 first marriage and her 1736 Triensbach burial (“born Schuster of Unter-Schmerach”), all read from the register. Weak or missing: The burial age matches the baptism only to within three weeks, and the 1704 Triensbach marriage copy has lost her surname in the binding. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Wife of Hans Pröger · 1678–1736

• Research status: PROBABLE (strong) — her baptism, first marriage and burial read from the register images, tied together by her burial's "born Schuster of Unter-Schmerach" and its age S609S608. Added 26 September 2026
• Baptised 18 November 1678 at Lendsiedel, Württemberg, daughter of Hans Schuster of Nieder-Schmerach and Maria S609. 🆕 Her mother's full name was Anna Maria Gronbach, by her parents' 1676 marriage Probable confirm or correct → S805
• Daughter of Hans Schuster and Anna Maria Gronbach Probable confirm or correct → S609S805
• Married first, 31 May 1701 at Triensbach, Hans Kochendörffer, son of the late Andreas; he was buried 10 February 1704, aged 32 S609
• Married second, 20 May 1704 at Triensbach, Hans (Johann) Pröger. Mother of Johann Caspar Pröger S607S599
• Buried 17 April 1736 at Triensbach, aged 57, as "Elisabetha Prögerin, gebohrne Schusterin" S608. ⚠️ Some trees call her Elisabetha Kochendörffer: that was her first married name, not her birth name
• 🆕 Her parents, Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach and Anna Maria Gronbach, daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger, a farmer at Groß-Allmerspann, married at Lendsiedel on 29 February 1676 Probable confirm or correct → S805. Her father, as “Johannes Schuster, widower of Unter-Schmerach”, married second Anna Barbara Schuhmann, daughter of Jörg Schuhmann, at Ilshofen on 22 August 1699 Probable confirm or correct → S806, so her mother Anna Maria died before August 1699. Evidence: the same name, hamlet (Unter-Schmerach) and parish (Lendsiedel) as her baptism and her 1736 burial. What is weak: each is a single register entry; one cannot rule out a second Hans Schuster in the hamlet, and Anna Maria's burial has not been found. A margin note probably names Hans's late father as Michel Schuster (see below). added 27 September 2026
• 🆕 Her grandfather: her father Hans Schuster was probably the son of Michel Schuster (Schüster), who was dead by February 1676 (his card) Probable confirm or correct → S805. Evidence: a margin insertion beside Hans's 1676 marriage entry reads roughly “u. Michel Schüsters deß gewesenen …bauern zu Kl…”, making the groom the son of a late Michel Schüster. What is weak: the words after “gewesenen” and the place name are not legible, and no baptism of Hans has been found. Online trees that give Michel a birth in 1600 and a death in 1675 merge more than one man and are not followed here. added 28 September 2026
• 🆕 Her grandmother: her mother Anna Maria Gronbach was probably the daughter of Eva Kreber (or Kerber) (her card) Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: Hans Gronbach, son of Hans Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann, married Eva, the surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann, on 27 November 1649 S836, and in December 1652 an Anna Maria was baptised at Langenburg to Johannes Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann and Eva S837. What is weak: the 1676 marriage names only Anna Maria's father S805, so the link rests on the 1652 child being the 1676 bride (same father, hamlet and given name). The registers call her only Eva; the “Elisabetha” and the dates 1631–1712 in some trees are not supported. added 28 September 2026

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Hans (Johann) Pröger

Confirmed

Great-grandfather of Johann Leonhard David Prüger · c. 1673–1737

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the Triensbach farmer who married in 1704 and fathered Johann Caspar in 1714 and two more sons, read from the register images S607S599. Added 26 September 2026
• Son of Hanß Pröger, a farmer at Seibotenberg in Michelbach an der Heide parish; he came to Triensbach, Württemberg, to take up a farm S607S610
• Married Elisabetha Schuster, the widow of Hans Kochendörffer, 20 May 1704 at Triensbach S607. She was not born a Kochendörffer, and no kinship with Minnie Kochendoerfer's family is implied. 🆕 Her parents were Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach and Anna Maria Gronbach, married at Lendsiedel in 1676 Probable confirm or correct → S805
• Father of Johann Caspar Pröger (baptised 21 March 1714), of Johann Michael (married 1734) Probable confirm or correct → — his 1734 marriage names his father only, and no baptism is found — and of Georg Michael (married 1746), all described as sons of the Castenamt Crailsheim farmer at Triensbach S599
• Buried 17 January 1737 at Triensbach as "Johann Pröger, der alte Bauer", aged 63 years 8 months, so born about May 1673 Probable confirm or correct → — the burial is not indexed and is matched by his description S608
• 🆕 Children who died young, buried at Triensbach as children of “Hanß Preger, Bauer allhie” Confirmed: a son buried 30 July 1709, aged 1 year 4 months; a son buried 7 April 1713, aged 3 years 4 months; a son buried 20 October 1716, 12 days old; and “his youngest little daughter Maria Margaretha”, buried 18 June 1720, 4 days old S740. Only Maria Margaretha is named. Two more 1709 burials under his name are not counted as his children: a boy buried 15 August, aged 2 or 7 (the digit is unclear, and 2 would put his birth only seven months from the July boy’s), and a girl aged 6, buried 15 September, born before the 1704 marriage. Both were probably Elisabetha’s children by her first husband, Hans Kochendörffer Probable Add to this record → added 26 September 2026.

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Eva Barbara Aufläder

Confirmed

Second wife of Johann Michael Pröger · 1737–after 1797

• Research status: CONFIRMED — her baptism and both marriages read from the register images S606S597. Added 26 September 2026
• Born 28 April 1737 at Gaggstatt, Württemberg, the daughter of Johann Georg Aufläder, the Comburg smith at Mistlau (died 1768, aged 74), and Maria Ursula née Probst S606
• Married Johann Michael Pröger as his second wife, 18 February 1777 at Triensbach. She was stepmother to Johann Leonhard David Prüger, then four, and not an ancestor of Earl's S597
• Widowed in 1795; married Johann Jacob Bachmeier, a widowed master weaver, 2 August 1797 at Triensbach S606

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Hans Raisig

Confirmed

Grandfather of Anna Margaretha Raisig · c. 1683–1740

• Research status: CONFIRMED — his burial and his son's baptism and marriage read from the register images S605S603S604. Added 26 September 2026
• A farmer and churchwarden (Heiligenpfleger) at Triensbach, Württemberg, and a juror at Rot am See. His wife was Anna Maria S605S603
• Father of Georg Michael Raisig, baptised 26 September 1712 S603
• Buried 2 June 1740 at Triensbach, aged 57 years less 12 days, so born about June 1683 S605. His parents are not yet settled

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Anna Barbara Groß

Confirmed

Mother of Anna Margaretha Raisig

• Research status: CONFIRMED — both her marriages read from the register images S604. Added 26 September 2026
• Daughter of Georg Caspar Groß (🆕 his first name from the Gerabronn copy of the marriage, added 27 September 2026), a butcher at Ruppertshofen and a Hohenlohe-Kirchberg subject. The register writes her Großin; the surname reading is Probable confirm or correct → (strong) S604
• Married first Georg Michael Raisig, 26 July 1740 at Triensbach, Württemberg. Widowed in October 1744, she gave birth to Anna Margaretha Raisig in May 1745 S604S598
• Married second Johann Melchior Frütz of Ilshofen, 13 July 1745; he took over the Raisig farm S604
• Her birth and death dates are not known

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Georg Michael Raisig

Confirmed

Father of Anna Margaretha Raisig · 1712–1744

• Research status: CONFIRMED — his baptism, marriage and burial read from the register images S603S604. Added 26 September 2026
• Baptised 26 September 1712 at Triensbach, Württemberg, the son of Hans Raisig, a farmer, and Anna Maria S603
• A farmer at Triensbach. Married Anna Barbara Groß, daughter of the Ruppertshofen butcher Georg Caspar Groß, 26 July 1740 S604
• Buried 28 October 1744 at Triensbach, aged 32 years, 1 month and 1 day. His daughter Anna Margaretha Raisig was born seven months later S603S598

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Margaretha Bullinger

Confirmed

Wife of Johann Caspar Pröger · d. 1762

• Research status: CONFIRMED for her marriage, read from the register image S599. Added 26 September 2026
• Of Eichenau, in Lendsiedel parish near Kirchberg an der Jagst. Married Johann Caspar Pröger, 12 March 1737 at Triensbach, Württemberg; her parents are not named S599
• Mother of Johann Michael Pröger, born 28 April 1740, and of Johann Melchior (1748) and Johann Georg (1751); three of her children died as infants S596S602
• Died 7 September 1762 at Triensbach in childbed, a week after burying her five-week-old daughter Anna Maria Probable confirm or correct → — the burial gives her maiden name only as Bül[l…]in and the village is hard to read; her age cannot be read S601
• Her birth is not known. A 1712 baptism at Lendsiedel is a candidate but is not accepted here

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Johann Caspar Pröger

Confirmed

Grandfather of Johann Leonhard David Prüger · 1714–1777

• Research status: CONFIRMED — his baptism, marriage, his children's baptisms and his burial read from the register images; the burial age counts back to the baptism day S599S600S602. Added 26 September 2026
• Baptised 21 March 1714 at Triensbach, Württemberg, the son of Hans (Johann) Pröger, a farmer there, and Elisabetha Schuster S599
• A farmer at Triensbach and a subject of the Castenamt Crailsheim (Brandenburg-Ansbach) S599S602
• Married Margaretha Bullinger of Eichenau, 12 March 1737 at Triensbach, after banns at Lendsiedel. She died in 1762 S599S601
• Father of Johann Michael Pröger (born 1740) and of Johann Caspar (1746), Johann Melchior (1748) — the "Melchior" of Georg Melchior Julius — and Johann Georg (1751); three more children died as infants: Anna Ursula (1755, baptised 4 August, buried nine days later), Johann Michael (baptised 20 April 1754, buried two days later) and Anna Maria (1762, aged five weeks) Probable confirm or correct → — the 1754 burial page is bled through and the 1762 entry's "daughter" is a probable reading S596S602
• His brothers: Johann Michael, married 1734 Probable confirm or correct →, and Georg Michael, married 1746, both sons of Hans Pröger of Triensbach
• Moved from Triensbach about 1767 and gave up his farm for a retirement settlement. Died a widower of a fever on 21 July 1777, aged 63 years 4 months, and was buried at Rot am See on 23 July S600

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Anna Margaretha Raisig

Confirmed

Mother of Johann Leonhard David Prüger · 1745–1776

• Research status: CONFIRMED — her baptism and burial read from the register images; the pastor's own margin note links the two S598. Added 26 September 2026
• Born in the night of 21 May 1745 at Triensbach, Württemberg, and baptised the next day. Her father, Georg Michael Raisig, a farmer, had died seven months before; her mother was Anna Barbara Groß S598
• Married Johann Michael Pröger, 22 January 1772; the register spells her Rasigin, other entries Rasig or Rösig. Mother of Johann Leonhard David Prüger, born 5 June 1772 S597S594
• Died of a fever at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 July 1776, aged 31 years and 8 weeks S598

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Johann Michael Pröger

Confirmed

Father of Johann Leonhard David Prüger · 1740–1795

• Research status: CONFIRMED — his baptism, both marriages and his burial read from the register images S596S597. Added 26 September 2026
• Born 28 April 1740 at Triensbach, Württemberg, the son of Johann Caspar Pröger, a farmer there, and Margaretha Bullinger S596
• A master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen S596
• Married first, 22 January 1772, Anna Margaretha Raisig; both were servants at the manor farm of Erkenbrechtshausen. Their son Johann Leonhard David Prüger was born that June; she died in 1776 S597S594
• Married second, as a widower, 18 February 1777 at Triensbach, Eva Barbara Aufläder, daughter of the smith at Mistlau S597
• Died 20 April 1795, aged 55 years less 8 days; buried at Triensbach on 23 April S596

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Anna Maria Busch

Confirmed

Mother of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · c. 1766–bef. 1806

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the mother in her son's 1804 birth register, and as the bride in the 1796 marriage register, both read from the images S591S595. Added 26 September 2026
• Mother of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, born 25 July 1804 at Erkenbrechtshausen; the register calls her Maria geb. Büschin S591
• Married Johann Leonhard David Prüger in November 1796: banns at Ellrichshausen, wedding at Triensbach. She was 30, so born about 1766, the youngest daughter of the late Johann Michael Busch, a Halbbauer (smallholder); his village reads as Beu[e]rlbach, which is Probable confirm or correct → S595
• 🆕 Mother also of Johann Michael Pröger, her first son, born at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 April 1797 Confirmed S623. Both registers of his marriage to Anna Barbara Hübner at Großaltdorf on 17 June 1829 name him the son of the late Johann Leonhard David Pröger and “the late Anna Maria geb. Busch”, a second record naming her S737S779.
• She died between July 1804 and early 1806: her husband married again as a widower on 4 March 1806 S592. Her burial has not been found. Her son was raised by his stepmother, Eva Barbara Schmidt

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Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer

Confirmed

Father of Minnie Kochendoerfer · cooper

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father on the 1847 Langenburg baptismal register, S184.
• Cooper, of Langenburg, Württemberg S184
• Father of Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer (baptised Sibÿlla Mina, 1847), with Eva Margaretha Renk S184
• 🆕 The 1837 Gerabronn marriage register calls him a master cooper (Büttnermeister), born at Gerabronn 1 March 1811, the son of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara. He married Eva Margaretha Renk there on 29 November 1837 S444. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 Three of Minnie's brothers went to America before her, added 26 September 2026: Johann Carl, born 21 March 1839 at Langenburg, applied to emigrate in October 1858 Probable confirm or correct →; Friedrich, born 25 December 1842, a shoemaker, and Heinrich Hermann, born 14 May 1845, a bookbinder, sailed together on the Humboldt from Hamburg to New York on 23 June 1864 S611. Heinrich Hermann's baptism names Georg Leonhard and Eva Margaretha as his parents and sits on the same family-register folio as Minnie's S612; Johann Carl's baptism, read from the register image, names the same parents: he was born 21 March 1839 and baptised at Langenburg on 27 March 1839 S729. His 1858 emigration application and Friedrich rest on index rows only. Minnie's own crossing has not been found
• 🆕 The Wallhausen copy of his 1837 marriage, kept in his bride's parish, agrees with Gerabronn: born 1 March 1811 at Gerabronn, a cooper there, son of the late Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara geb. Hartweck; married Eva Margaretha Renk at Gerabronn on 29 November 1837 Confirmed S966S444. added 29 September 2026

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Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch

Probable

Evidence: His daughter's 1872 burial entry, which reads Heinrich. Weak or missing: The index reads Friedrich; no second parish entry has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Father of Elisabethe Sabina Lösch · glazier

• Research status: PROBABLE — the S133 image reads Heinrich, but the index says Friedrich. What would confirm it: a second parish entry (her baptism or his marriage or burial).
• Glasermeister — master glazier — of Crailsheim S133
• Father of Elisabethe Sabina Lösch, with Maria Dorothea geb. Muck; the indexes of her baptism and 1835 marriage call his wife Maria Dorothea Wolf Probable confirm or correct → S840; marked deceased in her 1872 burial entry S133

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Frederick Albert Proeger

Confirmed

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · 1873–1947

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer; the Pennsylvania births and christenings index names his parents as Julius and Mina Prager
• Born 24 November 1873, Pittsburgh; died 8 October 1947, Greensburg, Pennsylvania — his Pennsylvania death certificate
• Married Ethel Gregg, 30 September 1896, Washington County, Pennsylvania
• 🆕 The marriage licence, no. 6460, reads “Fred Proeger to Ethel Gregg”; the date and county above come from its index S417. Ethel Gregg was born on 27 November 1875 at Carmichaels, Greene County, the daughter of Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling S423, and at 4 she was living there with her parents and her sister Mabel S416. Fred was a musician all his working life. In 1900 the couple rented on North Pennsylvania Avenue in Greensburg with their daughter Eleanor, born February 1898 S418. In 1910 he “teaches & plays”, at 131 North Maple Avenue S419. In 1920 he was a piano teacher in the same house, and Eleanor, 21, was a conservatory student S420. In 1930 they rented in Greensburg Ward 4 S421. In 1940 he was a church organist and musician at 533 Fremont Avenue S422. Ethel outlived him by ten years; she died at Greensburg on 19 February 1957 and was buried at St. Clair Cemetery S423. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 The 1927–28 Greensburg directory lists him as a musician, with Ethel G., at 215 West 3rd Street S614. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 His 1918 draft card, signed Fred Proeger, gives his birth date as 24 November 1873, his work as musician, and his nearest relative as Ethel Proeger, both at 131 North Maple, Greensburg S631. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 In 1950 his widow, Ethel G. Proeger, 74, headed her own household at 109 West Third Street, Greensburg S733. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Their daughter: Eleanor E. (or G.) Proeger, born February 1898 in Pennsylvania Confirmed. She is in her parents' household in all three censuses: in 1900, aged 2 S418; in 1910, aged 12, at school, written “Eleanor E.” S419; and in 1920, aged 21, single, a conservatory student, written “Eleanor G.” S420. The two censuses give her second initial differently, so it is shown as E. (or G.). The 1910 return says Ethel had borne one child, and Eleanor is the only one in any census. Her marriage and later life are not yet found. added 27 September 2026.
• 🆕 Ethel's parents Confirmed: her father Edward Gregg, born 11 September 1849 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, a planing-mill worker at Carmichaels, Greene County, in 1880; and her mother Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling, born about 1854 in Virginia. Ethel's 1957 death certificate names Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling as her parents S423, and the 1880 census has Edward, 30, wife Lizzie, 26, and daughters Ethel, 4, and Mabel, 1, in one household S416; both read from the images, and FamilySearch indexes the same household (1:1:MWFF-3W2). Her sister Mabel Gregg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, Confirmed: Mabel's own 1968 death certificate names the same parents S931. Lizzie died at Pittsburgh on 30 May 1891 S925 and Edward there on 19 September 1905 S927; both were buried at Carmichaels. What is weak: Edward's and Lizzie's marriage, about 1875, has not been found. Added as Probable 28 September 2026; relabelled Confirmed for the parents 29 September 2026, and for Mabel the same day.
• 🆕 Probably their daughter Eleanor married: in 1940 she was Eleanor Shrum, 41, born Pennsylvania, in Greensburg with her husband Paul L. Shrum, 41, attorney at law, and their children William, 10, and Jane, 7 Probable confirm or correct → S999. Evidence: Paul L. Shrum was the informant on Ethel's 1957 death certificate at Greensburg S423, and the age and birthplace fit. Weak: no Shrum–Proeger marriage record has been read. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 The 1977 Virginia marriage record of their granddaughter Jane Shrum, born 1932, of Greensburg, names her father as Paul Shrum and gives her mother’s maiden name as Eleanore Proeger Confirmed S1136. That puts in writing the Shrum–Proeger marriage proposed above. Eleanor’s place as this couple’s daughter still rests on the census and on Ethel’s death certificate.

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Luis Walter (Lewis) Proeger

Confirmed

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · 1881–1943

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer; his Social Security application names both parents
• Born 10 January 1881, Pittsburgh; died 27 April 1943; buried Allegheny Cemetery — Pennsylvania death index
• Married May Shepherd Stark (14 February 1883 Wellsville, Ohio – 13 December 1940 Pittsburgh), November 1916. In 1930 he managed a laundry and owned his house at Swissvale S356
• 🆕 On his 1918 draft card he was a self-employed designer and inventor of machinery, living at 6461½ Aurelia Street, Pittsburgh, with his wife May Stark Proeger S564. added 25 September 2026.

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Gotleib Proeger

Confirmed

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · born 1882

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer, listed as their son in the 1900 census at Greensburg, Westmoreland County S137
• Born June 1882, Pennsylvania. No death record has been found

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Caroline M. Proeger (Ross)

Confirmed

Daughter of Julius Karl Proeger · 1888–1958

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Daughter of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer; her Tennessee death certificate (58-08564) names her father Julius Karl S182
• Born 7 April 1888, Pennsylvania (the death certificate says 1889); died 28 February 1958, Memphis, Tennessee
• Married Charles W. Ross, about September 1914 (the date still needs a source; certificate 49141 is her daughter's marriage S502); in 1930 they were in Pittsburgh S355
• 🆕 Virginia marriage certificate 49141 is her daughter's: Katharine Charlotte Ross, born at Beaver Falls, married Robert Brame Yates at Kernstown, Virginia, on 30 December 1939. It names her parents as Charles W. Ross and “Caroline Progger” of Pittsburgh S502. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 Her first child, Karl Proeger Ross, was born on 14 September 1915 at College Hill, Big Beaver Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. His birth certificate gives his father as Charlie Ross, 35, an assistant auditor born in Indiana, and his mother as Caroline Proeger, 27, born in Pittsburgh Confirmed S958. Her age there fits a birth in 1888, not 1889. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 Her husband Charles W. Ross, an accountant born in Indiana on 11 August 1880, died at Latrobe on 16 November 1942, aged 62, and was buried at Woodlawn, Pittsburgh; the certificate names his wife Caroline, 55 Confirmed S1036. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 On 27 April 1942 her husband, signing as Charlie W. Ross, registered for the draft: born 11 August 1880 at Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, living at the Hotel Loyal, Latrobe, and working for Stupakoff Ceramic and Mfg. Co. Confirmed S1045. Oddly, the card was registered by a Luzerne County board at Wyoming, Pennsylvania, not in Westmoreland County; the card does not say why. added 29 September 2026

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Richard Frederick Proeger

Confirmed

Son of William Leonard Proeger (1876–1955) · born 1913

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of William Leonard Proeger and Anna Blanche Roberts; brother of William Harry Proeger
• Born 19 July 1913 at 327 Fifth Street, Beaver, Pennsylvania — his birth certificate no. 105903 S193
• With the family in Cincinnati in 1920 and crossing into Canada at Windsor S269S239
• In 1940 Richard, 26, was a mould maker at a glass works in Castro Valley, California, his father's trade, with his wife Mable O. and their son Richard F., 3 S353. By 1950 he was a tool and die maker at an electrical-plug factory in Los Angeles S354. He is the uncle of Earl's father William Leonard Proeger (b. 1941), not his son: an earlier version of the site wrongly put these two censuses on that card (corrected 29 September 2026).
• Married Ovalline Mabel Dubuque (born 24 April 1913, Kent County, Ontario; died 1 October 1956, Los Angeles); father of Richard F. Proeger Jr., born 1936 S11
• 🆕 Ovalline Mabel's mother was probably Helen (Hélène) Dubuque, née Labutte Probable confirm or correct →: the 1921 census of Canada for Wallaceburg, Kent County, Ontario, read from the image, lists Mabel, 8, daughter, born Ontario, in the household of the widowed Helen Dubuque, 43, with Harvy, Gertrude, Herbie and William S883. An Ontario marriage register, read from the index, records Helene Labutte's marriage to Jules Dubuc and names her parents as Francois Labutte and Agnes Lanzon S884. What is weak: the census gives only “Mabel”, and the parents on her 1913 birth registration have not been read, so nothing yet ties this Mabel to Ovalline by document; no record read names her father. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.
• 🆕 The 1937 Oakland directory lists him as R. F. Proger, glass moulder, with his wife Mable, at 1364 82nd Avenue Confirmed S1166. The surname is misspelled.

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Julius Karl Proeger (1917–1972)

Confirmed

Son of William Leonard Proeger (1876–1955) · 1917–1972

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of William Leonard Proeger and Anna Blanche Roberts; his 1936 Indiana marriage record names both parents
• Born 1 October 1917, Tarentum, Pennsylvania; died 20 October 1972, Los Angeles — California Death Index (a memorial giving 1974 is not followed)
• Married Ann Elizabeth “Betty” Meyers (11 November 1918 Bellaire, Ohio – 24 June 2001), 23 August 1936, Indiana
• 🆕 His World War II draft card gives his home as 436 S. 5th St., Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, his employer as the American Glass Co., Greensburg, and his wife as Mrs. Betty Ann Proeger Confirmed S970. The card gives his birthplace as “Campton, Pa.”, which is not a place that can be identified; the site keeps Tarentum. Know which place he meant? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
• On 2 June 1927 he crossed into Canada at Windsor, Ontario, aged 9, as “Julius Carl”, with his father William L., his mother Anna B., his brothers William L. [Harry], 15, and Richard F., 13, and his sister Queen Ann, 7; the family’s last residence was Lake Worth, Florida, and his father was bound for the Dominion Glass Co. at Wallaceburg Confirmed S239

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Queen Anne “Nancy” Proeger

Confirmed

Daughter of William Leonard Proeger · 1919–1985

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Daughter of William Leonard Proeger and Anna Blanche Roberts; her 1937 Indiana marriage record names both parents S12
• Born 30 October 1919, Ohio; died 21 January 1985, San Bernardino County, California — California Death Index. With the family in Wallaceburg, Ontario in 1931 S192
• Married first Warren Edgar Debelling (1918–1976), 16 October 1937, Valparaiso, Indiana; second Charles Edward Helgedalen (1926–1991)
• 🆕 Her second husband's father was probably Hans S. Helgedalen Probable confirm or correct →: Clay County, Minnesota, school census entries of 1939–43 at Ulen, read from the FamilySearch index, name Hans Helgedalen as the parent of Charles Helgedalen, born 5 March 1926 S877. The 1930 census of Goose Prairie Township, Clay County, read from the image, lists Hans S. Helgedalen, 50, a farmer born in Minnesota to a Norwegian-born father S875, and the next sheet lists Charles E., 4, as his son, with Hans's wife Beulah S876. What is weak: the school census has been read only as an index; Hans's middle name, given in family trees as Silas, and his birth and death dates are on no document read. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.
• 🆕 Probably her in Oakland, California, about 1943: “DeBelling Warren E (Nancy) mach h9234 Sunnyside”, Warren a machinist, living at 9234 Sunnyside Probable confirm or correct → S1000. Evidence: her husband's name and the name Nancy she went by. Weak: the year is from the index, not the page. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 Her first husband, Warren E. Debelling (born 1918), had married Ollie A. Arthur by 1963. The California divorce index records a preliminary decree in their divorce in March 1968 Confirmed S1118.

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Rose Alice Williams

Confirmed

Wife of Henry S. Roberts · mother of Anna Blanche · 1853–1919

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Mother of Anna Blanche Roberts and wife of Henry S. Roberts; her maiden name, Williams, and her mother, née Gamble, are on her own Ohio death certificate (file 8346)
• Born 10 November c.1853, West Virginia; died 2 February 1919, Martins Ferry, Ohio; buried Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, 6 February 1919
• In 1900 she had borne thirteen children, seven then living S92
• 🆕 Her son Samuel R. Roberts, born at Bellaire on 13 March 1884, a car inspector, married Mary Doughty of Martins Ferry on 20 August 1907; the record names his mother as Rose A. Williams Confirmed S1043. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 Probably her family in 1870: at Bellaire, Ohio, Rosa A. Williams, 15, was at home with Mary A. Williams, 52, who kept boarders, and Angeline, 23 Probable confirm or correct → S1153. The evidence is her name, her age (15 fits the November 1854 birth in the 1900 census S92) and Bellaire, where her sons were later born S1043. What is weak: the 1870 census states no relationships, it gives her birthplace as Ohio, not West Virginia, and her father, foreign-born, is not in the house. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.

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Thomas W. Roberts

Confirmed

Son of Henry S. Roberts · 1887–1905

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Henry S. Roberts and Rose Alice Williams — his Ohio birth record and West Virginia death record both name them S92
• Born 13 May 1887, Bellaire, Ohio; died 25 March 1905, Wheeling, West Virginia

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Harry Harrison Roberts

Confirmed

Son of Henry S. Roberts · 1889–1940

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Henry S. Roberts and Rose Alice Williams S92
• Born 19 May 1889, Bellaire, Ohio; died 12 November 1940, Pultney Township, Belmont County — Ohio deaths 1908–53. In 1940 a glass-company laborer at Lansing, Ohio, with his wife Amelia S352
• 🆕 On 5 June 1917 he registered for the World War I draft at Wheeling, West Virginia: 28, single, a roller of zinc for the Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., living at 921 Market Street, with his mother, father and a sister depending on him S769. The card gives his birth, 19 May 1889 at Bellaire, to the day. It writes his middle name as Henry, where the family tree has Harrison; which is right is not settled. If you know, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.

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Christopher Baker Roberts

Confirmed

Son of Henry S. Roberts · born 1892

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Henry S. Roberts and Rose Alice Williams — his Ohio birth record, the 1910 census and his WWII draft card S92
• Born 9 December 1892, Bellaire, Ohio. Place of death not yet found

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Christiane Juliane Prüger

Confirmed

Daughter of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · 1838–1911

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Daughter of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger and Elisabethe Sabina Loesch, in the Schwieberdingen family register S159
• Born 25 October 1838, Kirchberg an der Jagst (baptised 18 November); died 3 February 1911
• Married Johann Georg Fux as his second wife, 28 May 1861, Kirchberg S159

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Eva Barbara Schmidt

Confirmed

Stepmother of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the second wife of Johann Leonhard David Prüger — their 1806 marriage register has been read from the image S592
• ⚠️ Corrected 26 September 2026: she was Georg Melchior Julius's stepmother, not his mother. His own 1804 birth register names his mother as Maria geb. Büschin, Anna Maria Busch S591. Eva Barbara married his widowed father when the boy was a year and a half old and raised him, which is why his 1835 marriage and his 1870 burial entries name her as his mother S122S135
• Daughter of Johann Michael Schmidt, master weaver at Brettenfeld, near Rot am See. Married 4 March 1806 at Triensbach, Württemberg; the index's 2 March is the last banns S592
• Widowed that December. Her son Georg Friedrich Pröger was born 27 February 1807, ten weeks after his father's death; he is Georg Melchior Julius's half-brother. 🆕 His 1836 marriage entry names her as his mother, “Eva Barbara geb. Schmidt”. A weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, he married Maria Margaretha Stegmaier (born 10 December 1801 by that entry; her 1887 burial entry says 18 December, and only her 1801 baptism will settle it S776, Erkenbrechtshausen) at Triensbach on 20 September 1836 Confirmed S738. Their children at Triensbach: Maria Margaretha (born and died 1837) and Georg Friedrich the younger (born 25 December 1838), who married Margaretha Barbara Bauer of Gröningen there on 27 September 1864 Confirmed S775 and died there in 1902 Probable — index entries only S739 Add to this record →
• 🆕 Her son Georg Friedrich was dead by September 1864: the register of his son's marriage calls him “† Georg Friedrich Pröger, weaver and cottager” S775. His widow, Maria Margaretha Stegmaier, married again, to Johann Leonhard Frank, a weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, and died his widow at Triensbach on 16 May 1887 S776. Both entries carry family register II,343, which ties them to this family Confirmed.
• Her birth and death dates are not known

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Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer

Confirmed

Father of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer · 1770–1837

• Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: the 1837 Gerabronn marriage register S444 names Georg Leonhard's parents as J. G. M. H. Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara geb. Hart[weck], and both Gerabronn burial entries S452S453 record the couple, married 15 May 1810. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: the marriage indexes for Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837, name his parents as Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara Hertweck, whose own marriage the index put at Gerabronn, 12 May; both burial registers say 15 May 1810
• Father of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, born 1 March 1811 at Gerabronn, and so great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
• Married Eva Barbara Hertweck, 15 May 1810 (the index said 12 May), Gerabronn, Württemberg; his own father is given as Martin Adam Kochendörfer
• Birth and death dates not yet found
• 🆕 The Gerabronn burial register gives his birth as 22 March 1770 and his parents as Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer and Catharina Sophia Barbara. A day labourer, he died of consumption on 4 August 1837 and was buried on 6 August S452. His burial entry and his widow's both give the marriage as 15 May 1810, not the 12 May of the index S452S453. added 25 September 2026.

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Eva Barbara Hertweck

Confirmed

Mother of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer · 1779–1848

• Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: the 1837 Gerabronn marriage register S444 names Georg Leonhard's parents as J. G. M. H. Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara geb. Hart[weck], and both Gerabronn burial entries S452S453 record the couple, married 15 May 1810. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: the marriage indexes for Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837, name his parents as Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara Hertweck, whose own marriage the index put at Gerabronn, 12 May; both burial registers say 15 May 1810
• Mother of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer; wife of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, married 15 May 1810, Gerabronn (the index said 12 May)
• Birth and death dates not yet found
• 🆕 The Gerabronn burial register gives her birth as 3 May 1779, at Oberweiler [?], the daughter of Johann Georg Hartweck, a herdsman, and Maria Margaretha Schnürmann [?]; her mother's own 1766 marriage entry gives the surname as Scheuermann S814. She died a widow on 18 May 1848 and was buried on 20 May. The register spells her surname Hartweck and gives the marriage as 15 May 1810 S453. added 25 September 2026.

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Eva Margaretha Renk

Confirmed

Mother of Minnie Kochendoerfer · born 1809

• Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: Minnie Kochendoerfer's 1847 Langenburg baptism S184 names her mother Eva Margaretha geb. Renk, and the Gerabronn 1837 marriage register S444 gives her as born 25 January 1809 at Wallhausen, daughter of G. A. Renk and the late … geb. Zins. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: Minnie Kochendoerfer's 1847 Langenburg baptism S184 names her mother “Eva Margaretha geb. Renk”; the 29 November 1837 marriage indexes record Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer marrying Eva Margaretha Renk; and her own baptism index gives born 25 January 1809, Wallhausen, parents Georg Andreas Renk and Maria Margaretha Zins. Her 1837 marriage has now been read on the register image (S444)
• Mother of Minnie Kochendoerfer, baptised Sibÿlla Mina at Langenburg in 1847 S184; wife of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, cooper, married 29 November 1837, Gerabronn
• Born 25 January 1809, Wallhausen, Württemberg (baptism index); daughter of Georg Andreas Renk and Maria Margaretha Zins
• Death date not yet found
• 🆕 Her marriage on 29 November 1837 has now been read on the Gerabronn register. She was born at Wallhausen on 25 January 1809, the daughter of Georg Andreas Renk, innkeeper and master baker, and his late wife, geb. Zins. Her husband Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer was a master cooper, born at Gerabronn on 1 March 1811 S444. Her mother had died by January 1813, when her father remarried as a widower S443. added 25 September 2026.

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Georg Andreas Renk

Confirmed

Father of Eva Margaretha Renk · born 1776

• Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: the 1837 Gerabronn marriage register S444 names Eva Margaretha's parents as G. A. Renk and the late … geb. Zins, and the 1813 Wallhausen register S443 calls Renk the widower of Maria Margaretha geb. Zins. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: the Wallhausen marriage index (10 May 1808) and Eva Margaretha's baptism index (born 25 January 1809, Wallhausen) name her parents as Georg Andreas Renk and Maria Margaretha Zins; Minnie's 1847 Langenburg baptism S184 names her mother “Eva Margaretha geb. Renk”. The 1808 marriage date itself is still an index row
• Father of Eva Margaretha Renk, and so great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
• Married Maria Margaretha Zins, 10 May 1808, Wallhausen, Württemberg (index); born 27 April 1776. His second marriage, on 29 January 1813, is on the card below
• 🆕 The Wallhausen marriage register for 1813 gives his birth as 27 April 1776 and names his parents as Georg Michael Renk, a mason, and Maria Barbara. On 29 January 1813, as “widower of the late Maria Margaretha geb. Zins”, he married Margaretha Barbara Seibold of Michelbach an der Lücke S443. In 1837 he was an innkeeper and master baker at Wallhausen when his daughter Eva Margaretha married S444. added 25 September 2026.

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Maria Margaretha Zins

Confirmed

Mother of Eva Margaretha Renk

• Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: the 1837 Gerabronn marriage register S444 names Eva Margaretha's parents as G. A. Renk and the late … geb. Zins, and the 1813 Wallhausen register S443 calls Renk the widower of Maria Margaretha geb. Zins. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: the Wallhausen marriage index (10 May 1808) and Eva Margaretha's baptism index (born 25 January 1809, Wallhausen) name her parents as Georg Andreas Renk and Maria Margaretha Zins; Minnie's 1847 Langenburg baptism S184 names her mother “Eva Margaretha geb. Renk”. The 1808 marriage date itself is still an index row
• Mother of Eva Margaretha Renk; wife of Georg Andreas Renk, married 10 May 1808, Wallhausen
• Birth and death dates not yet found
• 🆕 She died between January 1809 and 29 January 1813. On that day Georg Andreas Renk married again at Wallhausen, entered as “widower of the late Maria Margaretha geb. Zins” S443. added 25 September 2026.

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Julius Herman Proeger

Probable

Evidence: His identity is proven by passports and his marriage; his siblings' records name Julius and Mina Kochendoerfer. Weak or missing: No record read so far names his own parents; the link comes from another user's tree. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · 1867–1945

• Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; his identity is proven — U.S. passport applications of 1917–1921 and a 1917 consular registration give Julius (H.) Proeger, born 29 July 1867, Pittsburgh, wife Ida Waggoner Proeger; the Pennsylvania county marriages have Julius Proeger and Ida Waggoner, 12 June 1889, Pittsburgh; and the Florida death index has Julius H. Proeger, died 1945, Tampa. His parentage is probable: another user's shared tree lists him as a child of Julius and Sybylla Mine Kochendoerfer, and his brothers' and sisters' Social Security records name Julius and Mina Kochendoerfer of Pittsburgh, but no record read so far states his own parents
• Probable eldest son of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer; brother of William Leonard Proeger, Frederick Albert, Luis Walter, Gotleib and Caroline
• Born 29 July 1867, Pittsburgh; married Ida Elizabeth Waggoner, 12 June 1889, Pittsburgh
• Died 1945, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida (year only). Not the same man as Julius Gustav Proeger of Wooster, Ohio (died 1950)
• 🆕 In 1910 he was a clerk at 1836 Lang Avenue, Pittsburgh (Ward 19), aged 42, married 21 years, and gave both parents as born in Germany. The household was Ida W., 39, and their only child, son Edgar W., 19 S456. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 His 1889 marriage licence gives his name as “Julius Proeger Jr”, a clerk living at Uniontown; Ida Wagoner was born in Pittsburgh on 3 October 1869 and lived in the 32nd Ward S537. In 1930 he was a real-estate broker in Tampa, with Ida S546. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 In the 1920s he was a salesman at Colón, Panama, and a Freemason of Chagres Lodge in the Canal Zone, raised in 1922 and suspended in August 1928; his lodge card repeats his birth as Pittsburgh, 29 July 1867 S559. A June 1891 parish register baptises his son Edgar Wagner Proeger, born 22 June 1890 S560. added 25 September 2026.

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Georg Michael Renk

Confirmed

Father of Georg Andreas Renk · a mason · died 1814

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the father of Georg Andreas Renk (born 27 April 1776) in his son's 29 January 1813 Wallhausen marriage entry, read from the register image S443. Added to the Ancestry tree 26 September 2026
• Father of Georg Andreas Renk, and so great-great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
• A mason (Maurer). Married Maria Barbara, whose surname the register does not give
• 🆕 Died at Wallhausen on 13 September 1814 at noon, aged 75 years 9 months 23 days, of the weakness of age, and buried there on the 15th Confirmed S921; his birth about November 1738 is computed from that age, not recorded. The burial entry names his parents, Georg Sebastian Renk, a mason at Wallhausen, and Eva Barbara, and calls him the widower of Maria Barbara. added 28 September 2026.
• Son of Georg Sebastian Renk and Eva Barbara. His baptism and marriage have not been found

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Maria Barbara (Renk)

Confirmed

Mother of Georg Andreas Renk

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the mother of Georg Andreas Renk in his 29 January 1813 Wallhausen marriage entry, read from the register image S443. The entry gives her given names only; her maiden name is not yet known
• Mother of Georg Andreas Renk; wife of Georg Michael Renk, a mason
• Birth, marriage and death dates not yet found
• 🆕 She died before her husband: his burial entry of September 1814 calls him her widower S921. The entry writes her maiden name, but it is hard to read; FamilySearch's index reads it as “Trencheim” S922. It is not settled, and no surname is entered for her. added 28 September 2026.

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Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer

Confirmed

Father of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the father of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer (born 22 March 1770) in his son's Gerabronn burial entry, 1837 no. 29, read from the register image S452. The 1837 marriage index calls him Martin Adam Kochendörfer. Added to the Ancestry tree 26 September 2026
• Father of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, and so great-great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
• Married Catharina Sophia Barbara
• Birth, marriage and death dates not yet found
• 🆕 A daughter: Catharina Margaretha, born 12 January 1773, widow of Johann Georg Burkhardt of Michelbach an der Lücke, was buried there on 24 February 1854, aged 81. Her burial entry names her parents as Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer and Cath. So[phia?] Confirmed S1152. Her birthplace, probably Gerabronn, and her mother’s second name are hard to read on the faded page.

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Catharina Sophia Barbara (Kochendörfer)

Confirmed

Mother of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the mother of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer in his Gerabronn burial entry, 1837 no. 29, read from the register image S452. Given names only; her maiden name is not yet known
• Mother of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer; wife of Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer
• Birth, marriage and death dates not yet found

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Johann Georg Hartweck

Confirmed

Father of Eva Barbara Hertweck · a herdsman

• Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the father of Eva Barbara Hertweck (born 3 May 1779) in her Gerabronn burial entry, 1848 no. 9, read from the register image S453. The register spells the surname Hartweck. Added to the Ancestry tree 26 September 2026
• Father of Eva Barbara Hertweck, and so great-great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
• A herdsman (Hirt). Married Maria Margaretha Scheuermann, daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann of Gerabronn, on 8 April 1766 at Michelbach an der Lücke; the register names him Johann Georg Hartweck of Oberweiler, the surname read with some doubt S814. Added 28 September 2026
• Birth and death dates not yet found

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Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck

Confirmed

Mother of Eva Barbara Hertweck

• Research status: CONFIRMED as Eva Barbara's mother — named in her daughter's Gerabronn burial entry, 1848 no. 9, read from the register image S453. That entry's spelling of her maiden name is hard to read (we read it Schnürmann [?])
• 🆕 Her maiden name is Scheuermann. The Gerabronn marriage register for 1766 (p. 53, no. 6) records her marriage on 8 April 1766 at Michelbach an der Lücke to Johann Georg Hartweck of Oberweiler, and calls her Maria Margaretha Scheuermännin, the daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann of Gerabronn S814. Added 28 September 2026.
• 🆕 Daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann, a Brandenburg subject, smallholder (Köbler) and the common herdsman at Gerabronn, and his wife Margaretha (the clerk wrote Maria, struck it out and wrote Eva above): 🆕 her mother is probably Eva Margaretha Stapf Probable confirm or correct →, whom Johann Adam, a widower, married on 16 January 1742 S835. Because he had been married before, an elder daughter of the same name by his first wife is not ruled out. Her baptism is in the Gerabronn register for 1743 (p. 110, no. 6), just after an entry dated 30 January; the day of the baptism runs onto the next leaf, which has not been read S815. A bride of 23 in 1766 fits. Both entries are in the old German hand. Added 28 September 2026.
• Mother of Eva Barbara Hertweck; wife of Johann Georg Hartweck, a herdsman
• Her death date is not yet found

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Georg Kreber

Confirmed

Father of Eva Kreber · of Groß-Allmerspann, died before 1649

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Eva Kreber. Two Langenburg register entries, both read from the image, name him: the baptism of Eva on 22 November 1631, child of Georg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspach and Maria S1077, and Eva’s marriage to Hans Gronbach on 27 November 1649, as the daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann S836. Georg and Jörg are one name, the hamlet is the same, and the bride was eighteen
• Husband of Maria, who has no card. Father of Eva Kreber. His place in Earl’s line runs through Eva, whose own link to Anna Maria Gronbach is Probable; that is the earliest generation the record reaches
• Died before 27 November 1649, when the marriage entry calls him the late Jörg Kreber S836. His birth is not on any record read
• The middle name Peter and the birth in January 1605 that online trees give him are on neither entry; they belong to a Georg Peter Kreber and Maria Susanna Woeller whose daughter Eva Elisabetha was christened at Hall in 1756, an unrelated family 125 years later

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Notes on this line

1. S1Family-written obituary of Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger, read at her memorial at Hope Chapel, Austin, 15 March 2025, and published by the family. Family-authored; the single richest document found.
2. S2Texas Marriage Index and Washington State Archives, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com — sortedbyname.com/letter_p/proeger/index_2.html and /index_1.html. Also the source for the Social Security NUMIDENT extracts and the immigration arrival index.
3. S3Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997, exact-surname search — ancestry.com collection 8781. Returns exactly three records statewide.
4. S4California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — ancestry.com collection 5247. The mother's-maiden-name field unmasks on a matching search term.
5. S6Texas, U.S., Divorce Index, 1968–2011 — ancestry.com collection 8794.
6. S11Social Security Applications & Claims / NUMIDENT for Richard F. Proeger Jr., born 4 September 1936 Oakland, California; parents Richard F. Proeger and Mabel O. Dubuque. Used to validate that Ancestry's field mask preserves character length. Via S2.
7. S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.
8. S13US Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File, republished verbatim — see S2. A government record; the parent-name fields come from the person's own SS-5 application.
9. S14FindAGrave memorial 298908619, William Leonard Proeger (1878–1955), Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood — findagrave.com/memorial/298908619.
10. S17FindAGrave memorial 298908631, Anna Blanche Roberts Proeger (1892–1942) — findagrave.com/memorial/298908631.
11. S19FindAGrave memorials 85739377 (Julius Karl Proeger, 1844–1924) and 85739357 (Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer Proeger, memorialised 1848–1912; the year is superseded by [S137]), Smithfield East End Cemetery, Pittsburgh — findagrave.com/memorial/85739377.
12. S24Family testimony — Earl Proeger, September 2026. Stated directly by the family and recorded on their word. Covers: the Silva maiden name and William Harry Proeger as his father's father (both of which record research had already reached independently); and, on Kristin's side, her father Thomas Caffey — raised in Austin, University of Texas, died at Austin — and her mother Lavonne Walker, Walker being her maiden name. Not a document. No record has been retrieved for any of the Caffey or Walker statements, no dates were supplied for either person, and none has been estimated. Carried throughout as Family testimony, never as Confirmed. Superseded in part on 13 September 2026: the Thomas Caffey statements are now carried on records instead — see S31–S35. The Lavonne Walker statements still rest on this source alone. Extended 17 September 2026: the family further states that she was born Walker, married a Caffey and divorced, then married a Danielson who has since died — which is why her photographs are captioned Danielson. It matches the Caffey obituary's "former wife, LaVonne Danielson" [S31] independently. Her present surname and her widowhood rest on this testimony alone; the second husband's given name, and every date and place attached to that marriage, were not supplied and are not published. Extended 22 September 2026 (eyewitness): Earl was present at the birth of his half-brother John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, born in 1994 to William Leonard Proeger and Briana Castro Proeger; Earl states the birth was one month before his own wedding ceremony with Kristin, which was held on Guam (the marriage itself was registered in Travis County; see the next entry). No birth record has been retrieved. Extended 22 September 2026 (Earl’s own account of his marriage): “Kristin and I married on Guam in a ceremony but registered our marriage in Travis County […] and we could marry without swearing, a scruple we held as Quakers and which Guam had no accommodation for.” The only date held is the Travis County registration, 1994, from the Texas Marriage Index [S2]; the date of the Guam ceremony was not supplied and is not published.
13. S43California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — FamilySearch record ark:/61903/1:1:VLNB-2LT, "Entry for William Lenard Proeger and Silva, 1941." Read in a signed-in FamilySearch session, where the day is not masked. This is the same index entry as S4; the free view returns it with the day hidden, which is why the birth date stood at Probable on this page until 13 September 2026. No paywall was defeated — a free FamilySearch account is all it takes.
14. S44California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800–1994, via FamilySearch — William Leonard Proeger, death 14 December 1955, Los Angeles; birth 1876; parents: Julius Proeger. A state vital record, not a user tree. It is the document that promotes the join between Earl's great-grandfather and Julius Karl Proeger from Probable to Confirmed. The separate California Death Index 1940–1997 entry for the same man gives the same death date and a birth of 22 March 1876 in Pennsylvania, but abbreviates the parent field to the surname alone.
15. S45Prickly Pear, Yearbook of Abilene Christian College, 1964 — student roster, p. 114: "Proeger, Bill — Alameda, Calif."; and p. 107: "Coffman, Nancy — Pasadena." Digitised by the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, ark 67531/metapth39924 — p. 114 · p. 107. A contemporaneous, college-published record. Alphabetical, so the two entries fall on different pages of the same roster. More than twenty further Portal pages naming Earl's parents were retrieved and are held privately; only the two home-town lines are used here.
16. S62Prickly Pear, Yearbook of Abilene Christian College, 1965 — p. 63, senior portrait grid: three portraits per row, three names keyed to each row alphabetically, "Powell, Marsha Joy · Proeger, Bill · Propst, Wayne." Digitised by the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, ark 67531/metapth39926. Corroborated by 1963, p. 52, the Barracks Dorm Council group photograph, whose caption reads "Bill Proeger, Jim Morrow, Ray Mullins, and John Bankston." The source of the portrait on his card. The thumbnail is a crop; the link goes to the full page, because the page is the evidence and the crop is a derivative of it. Published at his express instruction, September 2026 — he is living, and no date, address or employer appears with it.
17. S68Julius Proeger — Pennsylvania death certificate, 6 January 1924. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, file no. 677, registration district Pittsburgh, Allegheny County; Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906–1972 (Ancestry collection 5164), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Read on the certificate image 16 September 2026. Date of birth April 15, 1844, age 79, widower, retired; birthplace Germany; maiden name of mother Loesch, her birthplace Germany. The certificate names the mother and not the father — line 11 reads unknown Proeger. The father's given names came from S69, a different record on a different continent. This is also the record whose 15 April 1844 birth date made that match provable rather than plausible.
18. S69Carl Julius Prüger — Lutheran baptism, Kirchberg an der Jagst (Oberamt Gerabronn), Württemberg, 28 April 1844. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023), retrieved 16 September 2026. Born 15 April 1844, between 11 and 12 noon, baptised 28 April 1844 at Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg — the register writes the place Gerabronn, Kirchberg u. Oa. (today Baden-Württemberg); father Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Bürger und Schuhmachermeister dahier; mother Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch. Entry no. 22, original scan 5759 × 4607 px. The record that ended the "somewhere in Germany" wall on this line, and the origin of the Prüger spelling that was anglicised to Proeger in America. The identification rests on an exact birth-date match with S68, not on the name alone. ⚠ Superseded note, corrected 20 September 2026: this entry previously said the mother's name was lost in the binding fold and that her surname came from S68 alone. That was a limitation of a low-resolution screenshot, not of the record — at full resolution the line is legible, and the Schrift im Falz verdeckt flag on the film refers to a gutter this entry sits clear of. The register names the mother, and it is the best of the three readings of her given name — see S122. The parish is Kirchberg an der Jagst and the Oberamt is Gerabronn: the siblings' entries read Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), and Julius gave Kirchberg as his home to the Hamburg clerk in 1865.
19. S88Earl Theodore Roberts and Aileane Proeger — Los Angeles County marriage record, 8 February 1946. California, County Marriages, 1849–1957 (FamilySearch collection 1804002), page 30, digital folder 005698721, microfilm 2115501, image 2924; ARKs 1:1:K8KQ-X2F (groom) and 1:1:K8KQ-X2V (bride). Retrieved 16 September 2026. Both parties aged 27; the groom's parents are named as Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson; the bride is indexed under her first married name, Proeger, with her parents as "Lank" [Frank] Silva and Mildred Ross [Rose]. It does two jobs. It replaces a family tree as the authority for Aileane's third marriage, and it is the only record that names Earl Theodore Roberts's own parents — which is how this page can state that he is no relation to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above. Two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree. ⚠️ She is indexed in February 1946 as Proeger, not as Parliman, though the Parliman marriage of 31 May 1943 came first [S51] — an oddity of the index, recorded and not explained.
20. S90Ohio Births and Christenings Index, 1774–1973 — Annie Roberts (Anna Blanche), b. 10 Nov 1892 (christening), Bellaire, Belmont, Ohio; father Henry Roberts, mother Rose Williams. FHL Film 902141. Ancestry collection 2541, record 2773008. The record that identifies both parents by name. Maiden name Williams confirmed independently by the CA Death Index (S91).
21. S91California Death Index, 1940–1997 — Anna Blanche Proeger [Roberts], b. 16 Sep 1890, Ohio; d. 15 Aug 1942, Los Angeles. Mother's maiden name: Williams. Father's surname: Roberts. Ancestry collection 5180, record 5930981. Independently confirms the mother's maiden name from S90. Birth year 1890 vs 1892: the 1900 census supports Sep 1892; the death index is a secondary source for birth date.
22. S921900 US Federal Census — Henry Roberts household, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. Henry Roberts, 45, Head, b. Nov 1854, West Virginia, Glass Blower, married 25 years; Rose A Roberts, 45, Wife; Etta, 19; Florence, 17; Sam, 15; Thomas, 13. Henry's parents both b. Ohio. NARA T623, Roll 1769, Page 10, ED 0125. Ancestry collection 7602, record 62778072. Image examined, read 24 September 2026: 1590 Warren St.; Rose A. born Nov 1854, W. Va., both her parents b. Ohio, mother of 13 children, 7 living; Etta b. Feb 1881, Florence Feb 1883, Sam Mar 1885, Thomas May 1887. Anna Blanche is not in this household. Only four of Rose's seven living children are at home, so a daughter of seven living elsewhere is consistent with her own count. Siblings Etta (Henrietta), Florence, Sam, and Thomas confirmed.
23. S122Georg Melchior Julius Proeger & Elisabethe Sabina Lösch — marriage, Triensbach, Crailsheim, Württemberg, 1835. Germany, Marriages, 1558–1929, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:NZMF-P6V (bride's entry 1:1:NZMF-P6F), read 20 September 2026. Groom born 1804 at Ertenbrechtshausen, single; bride born 1803 at Crailsheim. His parents: Joh. Leonhard David Proeger and Eva Barbara Schmidt. Her parents: Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch and Maria Dorothea Wolf. This is the record that names a seventh generation on the Proeger side and a sixth on the Lösch side. It is an index entry, not an image: everything it supplies is Probable until a parish register page is read at Triensbach or Crailsheim. ⚠ Three readings of one woman's given name. This index says Elisabethe Sabina; the 1844 Kirchberg baptism register, written at the time and read at full resolution, says Elisabeth Catharina [S69]; Julius's 1924 Pennsylvania death certificate says Lossetta [S68]. The surname Lösch is identical on all three, and this record takes the contemporaneous register as primary. ⚠ The birthplace is a lead, not a finding. The FamilySearch shared tree says Schwäbisch Hall; both index originals say Erten- or Entenbrechtshausen, two readings of one hand, and Erkenbrechtshausen is a real hamlet 3½ km from the Triensbach church. The place-standardiser separately mangled the baptism entry into "Kirchberg an der Iller, Biberach", 150 km south. Always read the original place field, never the standardised one. ⚠ Corrected 26 September 2026: his 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch. Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his stepmother, his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.
24. S123Georg Melchior Julius Proeger — birth 1804 and death 1870, Württemberg. Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558–1898, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:NNGB-R2B: born 25 July 1804, died 4 February 1870; father Joh. Leonhard David Proeger, mother Eva Barbara Schmidt. Corroborated by Germany, Deaths and Burials, 1582–1958, ARK 1:1:J7HM-PXK: died 1870, born 25 July 1804 at "Entenbrechtshausen". Both read 20 September 2026. Two more index entries, agreeing with S122 on the parents and adding the dates Julius's father had never had. Probable: no image read. ⚠ A fourth ARK, 1:1:J7HM-PX2, displays as "Joh. Leonhard David Proeger, Father … Birth: Entenbrechtshausen". Do not cite that as the father's birthplace — it is almost certainly the indexer propagating the principal's birthplace onto the relationship row. Johann Leonhard David Proeger and Eva Barbara Schmidt as people — their own baptisms, their marriage, their dates — remain Not found; their FamilySearch profiles are hollow and carry no source but these. ⚠ Corrected 26 September 2026: his 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch. Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his stepmother, his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.
25. S124Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer — christening at Langenburg, and her parents. FamilySearch shared tree, person LHQC-M24, with parents LR9G-7HM (Georg Leonhard Kochendorfer, 1811 – 1 October 1859, died Langenburg) and LR9G-WGN (Eva Margaretha Renk, b. 1809), married 29 November 1837, Gerabronn, with six further children. Her christening: 21 November 1847, Langenburg, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg. Read via the published tree-data service on 20 September 2026; read-only — nothing was edited, merged or attached. User-contributed tree data, and graded as such: Probable. No Langenburg parish page has been read here. Its value is the parish: Langenburg is 8 km from Kirchberg an der Jagst, where her husband was baptised [S69], both inside the Oberamt Gerabronn. Two families out of one small district marrying in Pittsburgh is chain migration, and it redirects the search for her crossing, still Not found, from the Hamburg passenger lists to the Württemberg registers. ⚠ The tree gives her birth year as 1847, and the 1900 census [S137] and her 1912 death certificate now agree with it — so 1847 is the settled year and the cemetery record's 1848 [S19] is the outlier. The christening date is itself part of the proof: a baptism on 21 November 1847 cannot follow a birth in November 1848, but sits eighteen days after 3 November 1847. ⚠ The same profile carries an unsourced 1855 immigration for Julius alongside 1865; the Hamburg port register settles it at October 1865.
26. S133Elisabetha Sabina (Lösch) Prüger — burial register, Kirchberg u. Oa., 14 August 1872. Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), Heiraten u. Tote 1784–1896, image 656 of 706, burial entry no. 534; Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, through Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023, record 15195655). Read from the register image at full resolution, 4796 × 4013 px, 21 September 2026. Died 12 August 1872 at five in the morning, a Wittwe (widow) of Kirchberg; buried 14 August at ten; age at death given as 69 years, 3 months, 14 days. Father Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch, Glasermeister of Crailsheim, marked deceased; mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck, marked deceased; her late husband named in the entry as a Schullehrer in Kirchberg. The register settles a surname, a death date and a trade, and refuses to settle a birth date. The Ancestry index of this same entry reads her surname as something else entirely — a misread of the Kurrent. The register names her father a Lösch of Crailsheim, which is the birthplace the German deaths index independently gives her, and her son's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate [S68] gives his mother's maiden name as Loesch. Two record images, two continents, one surname. On the death date the two Ancestry indexes disagreed — 13 August in collection 61023, 12 August in collection 9868; the image says 12 August, and collection 9868 is the one that was right. On the birth date the stated age counts back to late April 1803, against the index's 26 May 1803; those digits are at the edge of legibility even at 4796 px and are not forced here. The record that would settle it is her baptism at Crailsheim, which is not in this corpus. ⚠ Read at full resolution on purpose. At the 600 px tier this page was illegible and an earlier pass misattributed the parents' column to her husband; the correction is what the full-resolution image is for.
27. S135Georg Melchior Julius Prüger — his own burial register entry, Kirchberg u. Oa., 7 February 1870. Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), Heiraten u. Tote 1784–1896, image 639 of 706, burial entry no. 3 of 1870 (page column 634, running no. 205); Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, through Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023, record 15195522). Read from the register image at full resolution, 5041 × 4061 px, 21 September 2026. Named Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Schuhmachermeister in Kirchberg a/J.; born 25 Juli 1804; died 4 February 1870 at seven in the evening, buried 7 February at ten in the morning; age at death 65 years, 6 months, 10 days. Parents, both marked deceased: Johann Leonhard David Prüger, Maler (painter) in Erkenbrechtshausen, and Eva Barbara geb. Schmid. Wife named as Elisabetha Sab[ina] geb. Lösch. This is the entry that settles his trade, and it settles it against the schoolteacher. Three register images now name his occupation: his son's 1844 baptism [S69] and his own burial here both say Schuhmachermeister; only his widow's 1872 entry [S133] says Schullehrer, and that one was written two years after he was dead, in a column describing a late husband. Two contemporaneous readings against one posthumous one. The 1872 reading is kept on this page as a variant and is not deleted. ⚠ The entry also checks itself. The stated age of 65 years, 6 months and 10 days counts forward from the stated birth of 25 July 1804 to exactly 4 February 1870 — the stated death date, to the day. Birth and death corroborate each other inside one record, which no index can do. ⚠ The parentage is no longer index-only. It was carried here from Ancestry's transcription until this reading; the names are now off the image, and the image adds a trade and a maiden name that no index held. The father's residence, Erkenbrechtshausen, is the same village this page already records as Georg's own birthplace [S12] — independently recorded, and the match is what confirmed the reading of a difficult compound. The mother's surname may be written Schmid or Schmidt; the terminal stroke does not decide it and it is not forced here. ⚠ Corrected 26 September 2026: his 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch. Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his stepmother, his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.
28. S1371900 U.S. Federal Census — the Julius "Prouger" household, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Ancestry collection 7602, record 42748658, image 4115244_00814. Enumeration District 101, Greensburg Borough Ward 4, sheet 24 B, dwelling 461, family 502, 219 West Third Street, enumerated 19–20 June 1900 by James S. Kimmel. Read from the image at full resolution — 3848 × 3810 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. The surname is written Prouger. Lines 60–64: Julius, head, Apr 1844; Minnie, wife, Nov 1847, age 52; Walter H, son, Jan 1881, Architect; Gotleib, son, June 1882; Carrie, daughter, Apr 1888. This is the record that settles Minnie's birth year at 1847. The written month and the age column agree only with 1847 — a November 1848 birth would have been entered as 51, not 52 — and her 1912 Pennsylvania death certificate gives 3 November 1847 independently, twelve years later. Two further facts come from the wife's row alone: both spouses report immigration in 1867, 33 years in the US and 32 years married, which places the marriage in America in 1868, after the crossing; and 10 children born, 7 living. The nativity column says only "Germany" — it does not corroborate Langenburg.
29. S144Lucas County, Ohio marriage licence application and certificate no. 97864, 1932 — William H. Proeger and Dorothy Susan Reid. Ancestry collection 61378 (Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774–1993), record 2472799, image TH-1-18858-23171-20, film 002169933, ledger page 288. Read from the image at full resolution — 4818 × 3802 px, 80/80 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. The entry has two halves. The licence application, sworn 27 February 1932, gives the groom as William H. Proeger, 21 years of age on the 26 day of June, residence 4823 Summit St in Lucas Co., Ohio, born Pa., occupation Machinist, father Wm. L. Proeger, mother's maiden name Anna B. Roberts, not previously married; and the bride as Dorothy Susan Reid, 18 years of age on the 4 day of March, residence 4823 Summit, born Indiana, occupation none, father Charles Reid, mother's maiden name Bessie Craighead, not previously married, consent signed Mrs. Bessie M. Reid. The certificate beneath it returns: “on the 4 day of March, A.D. 1932, I solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wm. H. Proeger with M. Dorothy Susan Reid”, signed R. O. Stevens. A first marriage this site did not know existed. The card had carried “Married (1) 4 March 1932, Lucas County, Ohio — spouse not identified” as Probable on the strength of an index [S12]; the ledger now names her and settles it. Both parties are recorded not previously married, which makes Aileane Marie Silva his second wife, not his first. His parentage is now on a document he personally swore to — father Wm. L. Proeger, mother Anna B. Roberts — rather than inferred from censuses and index entries [S12][S14]. And it is the first paper behind the family's memory of Ohio: Earl's own account has his grandfather coming back to California from Ohio around the August 1940 Utah wedding, and this ledger puts him at 4823 Summit Street, Toledo, working as a machinist, in February–March 1932. ⚠ The year digit on the groom's age line is smeared and is not legible. The line reads “21 years of age on the 26 day of June 19—”. The day and month are clear and corroborate 26 June; the year on that line is not readable, and the abt 1911 in Ancestry's index is derived from the age column, not read off the page. ⚠ What became of Dorothy Susan Reid is not on this page. Between 4 March 1932 and 13 August 1940 there was a divorce or a death; the ledger says neither, and no such record has been looked for. An open question, not a finding. ⚠ Groom and bride give the same address, 4823 Summit — stated twice, explained neither time. ⚠ The bride was a minor at application: she turned 18 on 4 March 1932, the wedding day itself, and her mother Mrs. Bessie M. Reid signed the consent line on 27 February. ⚠ The officiant's initials are not certain — the certificate signature reads R. O. Stevens and the application's expected-officiant line carries the same surname with initials that could be read either way. ⚠ The frame is film-flagged “Smeared Ink” by the filmer, and Ohio licence ledgers of this period carry age, not birth date, on both sides.
30. S159Württemberg family register — Ev. Landeskirche SCHWIEBERDINGEN, Familienregister Band 25, opening pp. 366b/367: the household of Johann Georg Fux, whose second wife is a DAUGHTER of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger and Elisabeth Sabina Lösch. Ancestry collection 61389, records 3576174 and 3576173 (one image closes both hints), image 1056758-00638, film stamp 000262. Read from the image at full resolution — 6447 × 4585 px, 117/117 DeepZoom tiles, 22 September 2026. Hausvater: Johann Georg Fux, kath., Gürtlermeister hier, b. 7 Jul 1821, d. 14 Okt 1910, son of Matthäus Fux and Barbara geb. Hornung. Copulation I, 25 Nov 1850: Maria Ana geb. Pfrogg (1822–1857). Copulation II, 28 Mai 1861, zu KIRCHBERG a. d. Jagst: Christiane Juliane Erdlin, geb. PRÜGER, evang., born 25 Okt 1838 zu Kirchberg, died 3 Febr. 1911. Her parents are written out in the register's own rows: "II V." — Georg Melchior Prüger, B[ürger] u. Schuhma[cher] in Kirchberg a. J., and "II M." — Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch. 🔑 THE FIRST SIBLING OF THE IMMIGRANT EVER DOCUMENTED. Until this page the Proeger line held Julius Karl Proeger and his parents and nothing beside him — no brother, no sister. Christiane Juliane Prüger, born at Kirchberg on 25 October 1838, is his elder sister, five and a half years before his own 28 April 1844 baptism in the same parish S69. She stayed in Württemberg, married a Schwieberdingen belt-maker, and died there in 1911. 🔑 The identification does not rest on the surname. It rests on four points in the two parent rows that agree with the 1844 Kirchberg baptism: the given names Georg Melchior; the trade Schuhmacher; the town Kirchberg an der Jagst; and the wife's full name with maiden surname, Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch. A parish 80 km away, with no access to the Kirchberg book, wrote all four. 🔑 "Sabina" is no longer index-only — and the name is still not settled. Her given name was Elisabeth Catharina on the 1844 Kirchberg baptism S69, Elisabethe Sabina on a FamilySearch index of the 1835 Triensbach marriage, and Lossetta on her son's 1924 death certificate S68. This is a second ORIGINAL register giving Sabina. Two originals now disagree, written by different parishes for different purposes, and neither is overturned here. The existing hedge stands with a second witness cited. ⚠ Ancestry indexes the parents' surname as Sträger. The image reads Prüger at 4×, same hand, same word — but the initial cluster is not beyond dispute even at 4×, and this is flagged rather than quietly corrected. Nothing above depends on it. ⚠ "Residence Place: Schwieberdingen" is REJECTED for both ancestors. Ancestry offers it as new. Schwieberdingen is the parish of the book and of the daughter's married household; Georg Melchior and Elisabeth Sabina are named as absent parents, at Kirchberg. Neither ever lived there on this evidence. ⚠ "Erdlin" is a MARRIED name. She was already widowed or once married before 28 May 1861 at twenty-two. That first marriage is not on this page and has not been looked for. ⚠ The third given name "Julius" is not on this page — a family table abbreviates. Not a conflict, but not corroborated here either. ⚠ The children block for the second marriage is EMPTY. That proves none were entered in this book, not that there were none.
31. S1791920 U.S. Federal Census — Julius Proeger, 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh Ward 11. Ancestry collection 6061, record 99550057, image 4385023_00859; SD 24, ED 471, sheet 5A, enumerated January 1920. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Julius Proeger, head, 75, widowed, owns the house free, immigrated 1865, naturalized 1874, born Germany (Württemberg) as were both his parents, speaks English, no occupation; daughter Gertrude P. Murfin, 32; son-in-law Godfrey Murfin, 43, born England, commercial traveller in linen; and a granddaughter. 🔑 He was naturalized in 1874 — the year the index drops. His son's sworn 1919 statement gives the same year [S180]; the certificate itself is still unlocated. 🔑 Immigrated 1865, in his own household's answer, agreeing with the Saxonia crossing. ⚠ Gertrude is marked alien: under the 1907 Expatriation Act a US-born woman took her English husband's nationality.
32. S180Passport application of Julius Proeger Jr — New York, 25 November 1919. U.S., Passport Applications, 1795–1925, Ancestry collection 1174, record 600918579, image USM1490_995-0672; application no. 143646. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Julius Proeger, native citizen, born Pittsburgh on or about 29 July 1867, sales manager, travelling with his wife Ida Waggoner Proeger, born Pittsburgh 3 October 1869, to sell for export in Central and South America. "My father Julius Proeger was born in Germany (Wurtemburg) and is now residing at Pittsburgh, Pa.; he emigrated to the United States from the port of Hamburgh on or about October 15, 1865 … resided 54 years uninterruptedly in the United States … naturalized … at Pittsburgh, Pa., on 1874." 🔑 A son of Julius and Minnie not otherwise on this site: Julius Jr, born 1867. 🔑 Sworn, and the father alive at the time: Hamburg, mid-October 1865, and naturalisation at Pittsburgh in 1874. The disposition line reads Father's naturalization papers on passport No. 50070, 6/16/17 — the file that should hold a copy of the 1874 certificate.
33. S181H. Samson funeral home ledger — funeral of Gertrude (Proeger) Murfin, Pittsburgh, 21 March 1956. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., Samson Funeral Home Records, 1866–1982, Ancestry collection 63100, record 105004976, image 63100_c8afcfcb_0102-00683. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Funeral of Gertrude "Croeger" Murfin (the clerk's C for P), charged to the estate of Gertrude C. Murfin c/o Mr. Godfrey Murfin, 711 N. St. Clair St., Pittsburgh; services 21 March 1956, 2 P.M., Smithfield Cem.; total $1,194.95, paid 6 April. 🔑 Julius's daughter, still in his house 36 years after the 1920 census [S179], and buried in the cemetery where her parents lie. ⚠ The personal-details face of the sheet (age, parents, informant) was not fetched; Ancestry's Julius and Wilhelmina come from that face and are not read here.
34. S1821910 U.S. Federal Census — the Proeger household, 707 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh Ward 11. Ancestry collection 7884, record 122780201, image 4449845_01104; SD 23, ED 421, sheet 4A, enumerated 16–18 April 1910. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Head entered as "Louis G." Proeger, 66, born Germany, owns the house free; Wilhelmina S., wife, 63, married 44 years, born Germany; L. Walter 29, land surveyor; Gertrude C. 27; Caroline M. 22; a servant. 🔑 Minnie in her last census, two years before her death, with three of her children. ⚠ "Louis G." is the enumerator's name for Julius — the wife, the children and the street identify the household, and Julius is at 711 on the same street in 1920 [S179]. ⚠ The sheet's immigration year for both, 1855, loses to 1865 for Julius ([S179] [S180]); for Minnie it is the only statement and is not adopted. Married 44 years points to 1865/66 and is left open.
35. S1831880 U.S. Federal Census — Julius "Prager" household, Virginia Street, Pittsburgh Ward 32. Ancestry collection 6742, record 28666117, image 4244222-00374; SD 4, ED 169, page 26, enumerated 7 June 1880. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Julius, 35, machinist, born Württemberg ("Wertenberg"); Mena, 32, wife; sons Julius 12, George 8, Frederick 6, and Mena 2, all born Pennsylvania. 🔑 Three children not otherwise on this record: George (c.1872), Frederick (c.1874) and Mena (c.1878). None is at home in 1900. Mena's 32 fits Minnie's November 1847 birth [S184]. ⚠ The family is indexed as Prager.
36. S184Langenburg (Württemberg) baptismal register, 1847, entry 30. Ancestry record 14762676. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Baptised "Sibÿlla Mina", born 3 November 1847 between 10 and 11 at night, baptised 21 November. Father Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, Bürger in Gerabronn, cooper (Küfer) in Langenburg; mother Eva Margaretha geb. Renk. 🔑 Minnie's parents on an original register. The next fetch is the Langenburg Familienregister (1834 volume), f. 279. The status of [S124] is not changed here.
37. S1921931 Census of Canada — the Proeger household, 16 Gillard St., Wallaceburg, Kent, Ontario. Ancestry record 998955; page 17. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. William ("Progeor"), 54, mould maker at the glass factory; Anna 40; Richard 18, mould maker; Julius 13; Queen Ann 11. Came to Canada 1928. 🔑 The family lived in Canada from 1928 to at least 1931. William Harry is not in the house, consistent with his 1932 Ohio marriage [S144].
38. S193Pennsylvania birth certificate no. 105903 — Richard Frederick Proeger, Beaver, 19 July 1913. Ancestry record 185160911. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Born 19 July 1913 at 327 Fifth St., Beaver borough, Beaver County, the second child; father William L. Proeger, 37, mould maker, born Pittsburgh; mother Anna B. Roberts, 22, born Bellaire, Ohio.
39. S195Vermont birth record — Bessie Hill Henderson, Ryegate, 10 December 1890. Ancestry record 925685. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Bessie Hill Henderson, born 10 December 1890, Ryegate; father Henry Henderson, farmer; mother Artie Morrison of Topsham.
40. S196Vermont marriage record — Leon H. Roberts and Grace M. Avery, Newbury, 26 June 1907. Ancestry record 1012562. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Leon's first marriage; his parents Henry Roberts (born Westford, Vt.) and Delina Deblois (born Fairfax, Vt.).
41. S199Harris County, Texas, Register of Marriages — licence 0302006. Ancestry record 926048933. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Licence issued 1964; William Leonard Proeger, 23, and Miss Nancy Martin Coffman, 21, both of Abilene, married 1964; officiant Robert W. Coffman, minister. 🔑 The licence found: licence 0302006, married 1964. ⚠ The register does not say the officiant is her father.
42. S205Handwritten "cousins list" by Eileen (Aileane) Roberts, c. 1996. A single sheet in her hand listing her four children (Nancy, Patricia, Bill, Kathie) with each child's children and their ages, closing "I thought you might like to know how many cousins you have." Written for Tasha Proeger, Earl's sister; the closing line is addressed to her. Tasha sent it to Earl, and it was published on 22 September 2026 (documents/silva/eileen-roberts-cousins-list-c1996). Undated. c. 1996 is derived from Bill's age (55) and Earl's (29). Birth years derived from its ages are marked as derived. Tessa (11), India (13) and Teal (27) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026. Derek (12), Rex (11) and Elain (35, spelled without a final E) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026. J J (2) is John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, Earl’s half-brother and Bill’s son, confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026. His birth year, 1994, is Earl’s eyewitness testimony [S24], so for him the age is not a derived year. It records Nancy as deceased by c. 1996, which the Oregon Death Index confirms: she died 9 January 1973 [S298].
43. S2141930 U.S. Federal Census — Leon H. Roberts household, Hancock, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Ancestry record 16461703; ED 2-19, sheet 1B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Leon H. Roberts, 47, born Vermont, teamster in the lumber woods; Bessie H., 39; Leora C. 19, Almon [Elmon?] E. 14, Earl T. 11, born Massachusetts, Bernice L. 8, Leon H. Jr. 1, and a grandson Arthur L., an infant. 🔑 Earl Theodore Roberts at eleven with his parents [S197].
44. S2151950 U.S. Federal Census — Earl T. Roberts household, 219C Brush St, Alameda, California. Ancestry record 265156503; ED 59-37, sheet 17. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Earl T. Roberts, 32, born Massachusetts, Armed Forces; Aileane, 31; Nancy A. 13, Patricia E. 11 and William [L.] 9, enumerated as Roberts. 🔑 Aileane's three Proeger children in their stepfather's household. ⚠ All three are entered as born California; the site keeps its own birthplaces.
45. S239Canada, Border Crossings from U.S. to Canada, 1908-1935 — The William L. Proeger family entering Canada at Windsor, Ontario. Ancestry record 2652144; Vol 3 p.261. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Canadian Immigration Service, Windsor, Ont., 2 June 1927 (Vol 3 p.261): William L. Proeger 50, glass worker, bound for the Dominion Glass Co. at Wallaceburg, with Anna B. 36 and children William L. [Harry] 15, Richard F. 13, Julius Carl 9, Queen Ann 7; last residence Lake Worth, Florida. The crossing is dated 2 June 1927 on the entry itself. William L. had been in Canada 1902–1906, at Montreal; his nearest relative is given as a brother, J. H. Proeger, of Tampa, Florida.
46. S266U.S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985 — Earl Theodore Roberts. Ancestry record 113449; p. 664. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Navy Register 1960, p. 664: Earl Theodore Roberts, Chief Warrant Officer W-4 from 1 Feb 1958; b. 7 May 1918; pay-entry base date 17 Aug 1938.
47. S2691920 United States Federal Census — William L. Proeger household. Ancestry record 33883065. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1920 U.S. census, Cincinnati Ward 13, Hamilton Co., Ohio, ED 242 sheet 2B, lines 96–100: William L. Proeger, 43, machinist, renting at 6081 Montgomery Road with his wife Anna B., 29, and sons William H., 8, Richard F., 6, and Julius K., 2, all three born in Pennsylvania.
48. S2741940 United States Federal Census — Leon Roberts household. Ancestry record 89791414. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1940 census, Hancock, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, sheet 4B: Leon Roberts, farmer, with Bessie and sons Leon H., Almon (U.S. Army) and Earl (U.S. Navy).
49. S275Oregon, U.S., State Marriages, 1906-1971 — Nancy Aileen Proeger and Robert George Belcourt. Ancestry record 1350125980. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Oregon Record of Marriage, Clatsop Co. file 3591 (state file 8614): Robert George Belcourt, U.S. Army, and Nancy Aileen Proeger, born Niles, California, 6 April 1937, daughter of William Proeger and Aileen DeSilva, married at Astoria, 9 October 1955.
50. S298Oregon Death Index, 1898–2008: Nancy Ail Wortman, died 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon, aged 35, born April 1937; certificate 73-01723. Oregon State Library, State of Oregon Death Index 1971–1980 (Ancestry collection 5254, record 610109). Corroborated by the U.S. Social Security Death Index (Ancestry collection 3693, record 68905787): Nancy Wortman, born 6 April 1937, card issued in Oregon 1953–54, died January 1973. The 6 April 1937 birth matches her 1955 Oregon marriage record [S275] exactly. Read 23 September 2026 (documents/proeger/1973-oregon-death-index-nancy-wortman). Index entries only; the certificate itself has not been retrieved. Replaces an erroneous 20 Feb 2025 date that had been attached to her.
51. S299“Earl T. Roberts 1918–2007” — The Star-News (Chula Vista, Calif.), 9 March 2007, p. 7. Illustrated obituary with a uniform portrait; image contributed to Ancestry by a member (cduarte192) and read from the image, 22 September 2026. Chief Warrant Officer CW-4, U.S. Navy; service in World War II, Korea and Vietnam; when enemy dive bombers wrecked his destroyer's galley he fed the crew using the blacksmith's forge and a welder's torch; a plaque honours him at the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial, La Jolla. Born 7 May 1918, Windsor, Mass.; retired to National City. ⚠ The obituary does not name the destroyer, the action or the year. It lists William Proeger of Austin as “a son”; he was Earl Roberts's stepson.
52. S300Family testimony — Earl Proeger, 23 September 2026. Recorded on his word: his step-grandfather Earl Theodore Roberts fought in the Pacific in the Second World War and was stationed on Guam as an officer after the war, and Earl's father Bill (William Leonard Proeger) went through high school on Guam while he was posted there. Not yet matched to a service record. A family scrapbook page captioned “May 1956 Guam” supports the Guam posting; the high-school years are Earl's account alone so far.
53. S301U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938–1949 — Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I., report of changes, May 1939. Ancestry collection 1143, record 141030331 (NARA RG 24). Read from the image, 23 September 2026. Roberts, Earl Theodore, service no. 212 50 12, apprentice seaman (Sea2c); enlisted 17 August 1938, Springfield, Mass.; received 12 May 1939 and transferred 16 May 1939 to the receiving station, New York, “for USS Anderson detail”. The enlistment date matches the pay-entry base date in the Navy Register (S266). The service number is what separates him from several other Earl T. Roberts on the rolls.
54. S302U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938–1949 — USS Anderson (DD-411), report of changes, Pearl Harbor, 17 August 1942. Ancestry collection 1143, record 19286774 (NARA RG 24). Read from the image, 23 September 2026. Earl Theodore Roberts, 212 50 12, ship's cook first class (SC1c); transferred 16 August 1942 to the Commissary Steward School, Naval Training Station, San Diego. The destroyer USS Anderson was commissioned in May 1939, the month he was sent to her, so he was one of her first crew (a plankowner). He served in her until August 1942, through the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway.
55. S303U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938–1949 — USS LST-455, report of changes, San Francisco, 31 March 1943. Ancestry collection 1143, record 36325596, image 32861_250626-00030 (NARA RG 24). Read from the image, 23 September 2026. Earl Theodore Roberts, 212 50 12, SC1c; re-enlisted 19 September 1942 at San Diego; received aboard 27 February 1943 from the receiving station, San Diego. The index lists him on LST-455's rolls through 30 June 1944 (see S312).
56. S311George Washington High School yearbook, Guam, 1955. Internet Archive classmates-yearbook-37313-1955-george-washington-high-school (Classmates.com no. 37313). Page 80, senior portraits, read from the image, 23 September 2026: “NANCY A. PROEGER — Transfer 54 from AHS, Asteria [sic, Astoria], Oregon; Junior Class Secretary 3.” A club-photo caption reading “P. Proeger” (Patty) comes from the OCR text only and has not been checked against the image, so it is Probable. “Mr. Roberts” in this book is John O. Roberts, a social-studies teacher from Kirkwood, Missouri. He is not Earl T. Roberts. Bill Proeger is in the 1955 volume as the freshman “B. Roberts” S313. He has not been found in the 1956 volume.
57. S312U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938–1949 — USS LST-455, muster roll of the crew, quarter ending 30 June 1944, p. 3. Ancestry collection 1143, record 36330586, image 32861_250626-00180 (NARA RG 24). Read from the image, 23 September 2026, matching the service number. Roberts, Earl Theodore, 212 50 12, CCS(PA) (chief commissary steward, permanent appointment); enlisted 19 September 1942; first received on board 27 February 1943. Between March 1943 (S303) and June 1944 he was promoted from ship's cook first class to chief petty officer. His ships after mid-1944 are not yet traced.
58. S313George Washington High School yearbook, Guam, 1955 — freshman class photograph. Internet Archive classmates-yearbook-37313-1955-george-washington-high-school (Classmates.com no. 37313). Page 29, lower freshman photograph, read from the image, 23 September 2026. Front row, fourth from left, captioned “B. Roberts”. Identified as William Leonard “Bill” Proeger by his son Earl Proeger, 23 September 2026. He was enrolled under his stepfather's surname. The 1950 census also lists him as William Roberts. The yearbook's “Mr. Roberts”, the teacher John O. Roberts, is unrelated.
59. S332Pennsylvania death certificate no. 20068 — Gertrude Proeger Murfin, 1956. Ancestry collection 5164, record 5704357. Read from the image. Aged 71, born Pittsburgh; died 18 March 1956; father Julius Proeger; mother's maiden name Wilhelmina Kochendoerfer; spouse Godfrey Murfin.
60. S337U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 — Leon Henry Roberts. Ancestry record 19321462. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Registered 12 Sep 1918, serial 2346, Local Board Div. 2, Adams, Mass. Leon Henry Roberts, 36, born 14 July 1882; farmer, self-employed, at Windsor, Mass.; nearest relative Mrs Bessie Hill Roberts, Dalton. Signed in his own hand. The index's “Berrie” is Bessie, and its “North Adams” is the board's stamp, not his residence. His own statement of the birth date.
61. S338U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 — Leon Henry Roberts. Ancestry record 6636572. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Serial U-1910. Leon Henry Roberts, 59, born 14 July 1882, Lowell, Vermont; residence Main Road, Hancock, Berkshire Co., Mass.; self-employed; contact Mrs Bessie H. Roberts. Front of card only. The 1942 registration of men aged 45–64, not military service.
62. S339Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records — Hancock deaths 1961, no. 2, Leon Henry Roberts. Ancestry record 6851715. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Leon Henry Roberts, farmer, of Hancock, died 4 May 1961 at Hancock, aged 78 y 10 m 10 d; born Lowell, Vt.; father Henry Roberts (b. Westford, Vt.), mother Delina Deblois (b. Fairfax, Vt.); cause ruptured aneurysm of the abdominal aorta; buried Hancock Cemetery. This register settles the death as 4 May; the Find a Grave index (S304) has 24 May. His condition is entered as “S”, and the clerk's age points to 24 June 1882; his own draft card (S337) and the 1900 census (S340) give July 1882.
63. S3401900 U.S. Federal Census — Henry Roberts household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont. Ancestry record 61919208. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed ED 51, sheet 8, dwelling 173. Henry Roberts, 55, b. Oct 1844, Vt., farm laborer, married 32 years; wife Delina, 47, b. Apr 1853, Vt., mother of 10 children, 4 living; sons Theodore (b. Jan 1877), Leon (b. July 1882), Homer (b. May 1886) and Elmer (b. Mar 1888). Leon's three brothers enter the record here.
64. S341Elroy McKendree Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, vol. 2 (1912), p. 880 — Grace May Avery. Ancestry record 4513405467. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Probable No. 6106, Grace May, daughter of Frank Forest and Betsey (Avery) Avery, born 27 April 1886 at Bradford, Vt.; married Leon Roberts in June 1907; “she was drowned July 5, 1908.” A compiled family history, not a record. It gives the wedding as 30 June at Bradford; the Vermont marriage card, the contemporary return, gives 26 June 1907, and the card's date is kept. The drowning rests on this book alone.
65. S342Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records — Williamstown marriages 1940, no. 39, McDonald–Roberts. Ancestry record 15052518. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed 30 Aug 1940, Williamstown: Charles Jay McDonald, 27, of Pittsfield, son of Jay C. McDonald and Goldie Hood, married Bernice Louise Roberts, 18, of Dalton, born Dalton, daughter of Leon H. Roberts and Bessie Hill Henderson. Officiant Thomas M. Bishop. The index's “Berince” and “Hinderson” are misreadings.
66. S343“Woman Takes Own Life At Wallowa Lake — Rifle Shot In Parked Car Claims Nancy Wortman.” Wallowa County Chieftain (Enterprise, Oregon), Thursday 11 January 1973, page 1. Page image shared on Ancestry by cduarte192 (media 204294cd), 872 × 924 px; read by eye 24 September 2026 (documents/proeger/1973-01-11-wallowa-county-chieftain-nancy-wortman). Confirmed Nancy Belcourt Wortman of Enterprise, 35, died on Tuesday [9 January 1973], apparently by her own hand with a rifle, in a pickup parked near the boat ramp at the foot of Wallowa Lake; found about 8:30 p.m. after a day-long search. Employed at the Wallowa County Nursing Home; twice divorced; survived by two daughters living at Fort Huachuca, Arizona with their father, Robert Belcourt, and a son and a daughter who had lived with her in Enterprise. Date, county and age agree with the Oregon Death Index [S298], and Robert Belcourt is her 1955 husband [S275]. A contemporary newspaper report, not the death certificate, which has not been retrieved. Published at Earl’s instruction, 24 September 2026.
67. S351California, U.S., Voter Registrations — Los Angeles County 1946, City Precinct 1200. Ancestry record 31531908. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Probable “Proeger, William H, 1839½ Lake Shore av, DS” (Declines to State). Identity rests on the rare name, his 1940 LA County draft registration (S12) and his father being William L. The index's “183914” is 1839½.
68. S3521940 U.S. Federal Census — Harry Roberts household, Boyd Ave., Lansing, Pease Twp., Belmont Co., Ohio. Ancestry record 38067602. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Harry Roberts, 50, b. Ohio, laborer at a glass company, renting at $7 a month; wife Amelia, 45, b. W. Va.; daughters Etta Mae, Amelia, Lora and Shirley, and a married daughter, Catherine Rose, with her three small daughters. Identity: his age fits the 19 May 1889 Bellaire birth, he worked in his father's glass trade in the same county, and he named a daughter Etta after his eldest sister. The index's “760” is the rent, written 7.00.
69. S3531940 U.S. Federal Census — Richard F. Proeger household, 20674 Glen Road, Castro Valley, Alameda Co., California. Ancestry record 67972297. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Richard, 26, mould maker at a glass works, $1,960 in 1939, renting at $28 a month, living in San Francisco in 1935; wife Mable O., 26, b. French Canada; son Richard F., 3. The same trade his father gave on Richard's 1913 birth certificate (S193).
70. S3541950 U.S. Federal Census — Richard F. Proeger household, 2257½ Ewing St., Los Angeles, California. Ancestry record 264955166. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Richard, tool and die maker at an electrical plug factory; wife Mabel O., 36, b. Canada, naturalised, a shipping clerk; son Richard F., 12. The index's “Richard T” is a misread of F. This census gives Mabel's birthplace as other Canada, the 1940 census French Canada; left open.
71. S3551930 U.S. Federal Census — Charles W. Ross household, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Ancestry record 48461677. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Charles W. Ross, 49, b. Indiana, salesman of food products, renting at no. 5601; wife Caroline, 42, b. Pa., both parents b. Germany (Württemberg); son Karl P., 14; daughter Katherine, 12. Caroline is Julius Karl Proeger's daughter: her son Karl P. Ross was the informant on her 1958 death certificate, which names Julius as her father. Her age of 42 fits the tree's 1888 birth.
72. S3561930 U.S. Federal Census — Lewis W. Proeger household, 1107 La Clair St., Swissvale, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Ancestry record 49140072. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Lewis W. Proeger, 49, laundry manager, owns his house ($18,000), first married at 35; wife May, 49, b. Ohio; children May, 11, and Walter, 9. The first record of his marriage; May's maiden name is not known. The index's “Praeger” is wrong: the image reads Proeger.
73. S357Vermont marriage card (groom) — Henry W. Henderson and Artie H. Morrison, Ryegate, Vermont, 1 January 1887. Ancestry record 925750. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry W. Henderson, 22, farmer, born Ryegate, son of William J. Henderson and Carrie K. (Gilfillan), married Artie H. Morrison; C. H. Farnsworth, clergyman; Alex Cochran, town clerk. The first image of the marriage and of Henry's parents. His age, 22 on 1 January 1887, fits a birth of 12 June 1864.
74. S3581930 U.S. Federal Census — Henry W. Henderson household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont (ED 3-19, sheet 7A). Ancestry record 124392317. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry W. Henderson, 65, dairy farmer; wife H. Artmiza, 62; their daughter Winona Sulham and her husband Perley, with four grandchildren. The grandchildren are not named here in case any is living.
75. S359Vermont death return — Harriet Artimiza Henderson, Ryegate, 7 December 1930. Ancestry record 216231. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Harriet Artimiza Henderson, married, housewife, aged 63 years 1 month 19 days, born at Ryegate 18 October 1867, daughter of Orange G. Morrison and Elizabeth J. Miller, both born at Ryegate; died of lobar pneumonia after 7 days. Certified copy by Clarence J. McLam, town clerk. This settles her full name, which the site had only from a shared tree.
76. S3601870 U.S. Federal Census — Orange G. Morrison household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont (P.O. McIndoes Falls), p. 14. Ancestry record 36852849. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Orange G. Morrison, 38, farmer, real estate $3,150; Elizabeth, 37; Winona, 14; Marion, 9; Margaret, 5; and Artemiza, 3, with $4,000 real estate and $1,500 personal estate entered in her own name. The property on a three-year-old's line is larger than her father's; it may have been settled on her, but the page does not say why.
77. S361Vermont death card — Henry William Henderson, Ryegate, 30 March 1949. Ancestry record 124148. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry William Henderson, retired farmer of Pleasant St., South Ryegate, widowed, died 30 March 1949 aged 84 years 9 months 19 days; born Ryegate 12 June; father William J. Henderson, born Ryegate; mother Carolyn Gillfillan, born Barnet; informant Winona M. Sulham. The card writes the birth year as 1865, but its own age line and every census give 1864.
78. S365U.S. District Court, Pittsburgh — petition for citizenship no. 91799, Godfrey Murfin, 24 March 1931. Ancestry record 685005. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Godfrey Murfin, travelling salesman of 711 N. St. Clair St., born Wem, England, 20 April 1876; arrived New York 5 June 1905 on the Parisian from Queenstown; married Gertrude at Pittsburgh 3 April 1915; wife born Pittsburgh 7 May 1883; one daughter, Marjone Louise, born Pittsburgh 7 June 1917. The petition's 1883 birth date for Gertrude does not agree with her age of 32 in 1920 or 71 at her 1956 death. Both are kept.
79. S366Indiana birth certificate no. 35542 — Dorothy Susan Boost, Indianapolis, 2 March 1914. Ancestry record 2237729. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Dorothy Susan Boost, born 2 March 1914 at 1120 East 13th Street, Indianapolis, daughter of Andy Boost, 28, of Logansport, a wagon cleaner, and Bessie Craighead, 27, of Peru, Indiana; the fourth of four living children. Her mother is the Bessie Craighead of the 1932 marriage licence (S144), where her father is given as Charles Reid. How she came to be a Reid is not yet known.
80. S367Toledo, Ohio, city directory, 1933, p. 729. Ancestry record 303061589. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Proeger Wm H (Dorothy S) appr Toledo Mould Co h2808 E” — William Harry Proeger and Dorothy S., still listed as a married couple. The marriage was intact at the 1933 canvass, so the divorce or death falls between mid-1933 and August 1940.
81. S3721950 U.S. Federal Census — Godfrey Murfin household, 711 N. St. Clair St., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ED 77-337, sheet 14, lines 12–13). Ancestry record 244825954. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Godfrey Murfin, 73, born England, naturalized; wife Gertrude P., 65, born Pennsylvania; both unable to work. The same house the couple shared with her father in 1920. Her age, 65, agrees with her death at 71 in 1956 against the 32 of the 1920 census.
82. S381World War I draft registration card — William Leonard Proeger, Local Board No. 15, Tarentum, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, 12 September 1918. Ancestry record 10212496. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed William Leonard Proeger, Maple Ave., R.F.D. #1 Tarentum, age 42, born March 22 1876, native born; mechanic at Allegheny Steel Co., Brackenridge; nearest relative Mrs Anna Proeger, wife; tall, medium build, brown eyes, dark brown curly hair. Also Ancestry record 110212496 (the same card, filed under Anna). His own signed statement of 1876, against a 1878 on a memorial site.
83. S3821940 U.S. Federal Census — William Proeger household, 414 Park Ave., Dunkirk, Chautauqua Co., New York (ED 7-29, sheet 13A, lines 16–17). Ancestry record 9706875. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed William Proeger, 64, born Pennsylvania, glass worker, $1,248 wages in 1939; wife Anna, 49, born Ohio, the informant; both living in Chicago in 1935; renting, no children at home.
84. S4161880 U.S. Federal Census — Edward Gregg household, Carmichaels Borough, Greene Co., Pennsylvania (ED 69, page 3, dwelling 29, lines 31–34). Ancestry record 29464210. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Edward Gregg, 30, works in a planing mill, born Pennsylvania; wife Lizzie, 26, born Virginia; daughters Ethel, 4, born Pennsylvania, and Mabel, 1; enumerated 2 June 1880. Ethel's 1957 death certificate (S423) gives her birth at Carmichaels on 27 November 1875 and her parents as Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling; Lizzie is taken as Elizabeth. The page gives Lizzie's birthplace as Virginia on her own line and Pennsylvania on Ethel's; Virginia is held, unconfirmed. An Aaron Gregg, 54, shares the dwelling; the page does not say how he is related.
85. S417Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriages, 1852–1968 — marriage licence no. 6460, Fred Proeger to Ethel Gregg (docket cover; FHL film 001851681). Ancestry record 902707460. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed The docket cover reads “No. 6460. Marriage License. Fred Proeger to Ethel Gregg.” The cover carries the names only. The date (30 September 1896), the place (Washington County) and the ages come from the index, not from this image; the application and return pages have not been examined. The same image is Ancestry record 2707460.
86. S4181900 U.S. Federal Census — Fred Proeger household, North Pennsylvania Avenue, Greensburg Borough ward 1, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 100, sheet 22B, lines 84–86). Ancestry record 42744922. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred Proeger, head, born November 1873, 26, married 4 years, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, musician, renting; wife Ethel, born November 1875, 24; daughter Eleanor, born February 1898; enumerated 19 June 1900. The index's “Fred B.” is the enumerator's column code, not an initial. The same image is Ancestry record 42744921.
87. S4191910 U.S. Federal Census — Fred A. Proeger household, 131 North Maple Avenue, Greensburg Borough ward 2, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 128, sheet 1B, lines 98–100). Ancestry record 192460778. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred A. Proeger, 36, married 14 years, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, musician who “teaches & plays” on his own account, renting 131 North Maple Avenue; wife Ethel, 34, one child born and living; daughter Eleanor E., 12, at school; enumerated 15 April 1910. Eleanor's second initial is unclear here; the 1920 sheet (S420) reads G. The same image is Ancestry record 26043052.
88. S4201920 U.S. Federal Census — Fred A. Proeger household, 131 North Maple Avenue, Greensburg Borough, part of 2nd ward, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 100, sheet 7B, lines 83–85). Ancestry record 34594692. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred A. Proeger, 46, renting, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, teacher, piano music; wife Ethel, 44, born Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania-born parents; daughter Eleanor G., 21, single, student at a conservatory; enumerated 15–16 January 1920. Same house number and same neighbours as 1910. The same image is Ancestry record 34594691.
89. S4211930 U.S. Federal Census — Fred A. Proger household, Greensburg Ward 4, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 65-38, sheet 8A, lines 1–3). Ancestry record 56807879. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred A. Proger, head, 56, renting house 223 at $60 a month, with a radio, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, first married at 22; wife Ethel, 54, first married at 20; a roomer, a schoolteacher; enumerated 10 April 1930. Spelled Proger on the sheet. His occupation is written only as “M.” and is not expanded here. The street for line 1 is faint and is not given.
90. S4221940 U.S. Federal Census — Fred Proeger household, 533 Fremont Avenue, Greensburg ward 8, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 65-60, sheet 3B, lines 66–67). Ancestry record 18754029. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred Proeger, head and informant, 66, born Pennsylvania, organist and musician for a church and on his own account, renting 533 Fremont Avenue at $36.50 a month, in the same house in 1935; wife Ethel, 63, born Pennsylvania; enumerated 4 April 1940. Ancestry's index reads Praeger; the image reads Proeger. The same image is Ancestry record 18754027.
91. S423Pennsylvania death certificate, file no. 18938 — Ethel Gregg Proeger, 19 February 1957, Greensburg. Ancestry record 7223935. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Ethel Gregg Proeger, widow of Frederick A. Proeger, of 302 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Greensburg, retired homemaker, born 27 November 1875 at Carmichaels, Pa., died 19 February 1957 at Greensburg, aged 81, of a cerebral haemorrhage; father Edward Gregg, mother Elizabeth Darling; buried 21 February 1957 at St. Clair Cemetery, Hempfield Township. Her parents are as the informant gave them. The marriage index names her father as A. E. Gregg; the two forms are not merged.
92. S442Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Card Files, 1775–1948 — Proeger, L. William, Pvt., Co. I, 10th Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard. Ancestry record 117476. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “PROEGER L WILLIAM PVT CO I 10TH INF P.N.G.”: enlisted 1 July 1895, residence Greensburg, age 19, 5 ft 8 in, glass worker; no promotions; discharged 10 February 1898, “Removal from city”; federal service: none. The card has no birthplace or parents. It is taken as William Leonard (b. 1876) because of the rare surname, the initial, his exact age, the town and the family trade. The only other L. Proeger son was 14 in 1895. His discharge came before the 10th Pennsylvania entered federal service in 1898, so he is not credited with the Spanish–American War.
93. S443Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Wallhausen, marriages 1813, no. 1: Georg Andreas Renk and Margaretha Barbara Seibold, 29 January 1813. Ancestry record 14293437. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Georg Andreas Renk, born 27 April 1776, son of Georg Michael Renk, mason, and Maria Barbara, “widower of the late Maria Margaretha geb. Zins”, marries on 29 January 1813 Margaretha Barbara Seibold, born 1784 at Michelbach an der Lücke. The original register, not an index row. It is his second marriage, and it shows his first wife, Maria Margaretha Zins, died between Eva Margaretha's birth in January 1809 and January 1813. The bride's relatives and the pastor named in the entry are not kin and are not entered.
94. S444Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, marriages 1837, no. 5: Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837. Ancestry record 914646708. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, master cooper (Büttnermeister), born at Gerabronn 1 March 1811, son of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara, marries on 29 November 1837 Eva Margaretha, born at Wallhausen 25 January 1809, daughter of Georg Andreas Renk, innkeeper and master baker at Wallhausen, and the late … Margaretha geb. Zins. The register image, read in place of the index rows cited before. Ancestry's index gives her birth as 15 January and her mother as “Eva Margareta Renk”; the image reads 25 January and Zins. It appears to call the mother Eva Margaretha, where the 1813 register (S443) says Maria Margaretha; the 1813 entry, made by her own husband's parish three years after her death, is followed here. The groom's mother's surname is only partly legible.
95. S452Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, burials 1837, no. 29: Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, 4 August 1837. Ancestry record 14648184. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, day labourer, born 22 March 1770, son of Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer and Catharina Sophia Barbara, died 4 August 1837 of consumption (Auszehrung) and was buried on 6 August. His wife is Eva Barbara geb. Hartweck, married (copulirt) 15 May 1810; family register folio 171. The burial register itself, not an index row. The site had his marriage as 12 May 1810 from the index; this entry and his widow's (S453) both give 15 May.
96. S453Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, burials 1848, no. 9: Eva Barbara Kochendörfer geb. Hartweck, 18 May 1848. Ancestry record 14648485. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Eva Barbara Kochendörfer, geb. Hartweck, widow, born at Oberweiler [?] 3 May 1779, daughter of Johann Georg Hartweck, herdsman, and Maria Margaretha Schnürmann [?], died 18 May 1848 of dropsy of the heart and was buried on 20 May. Her husband died 4 August 1837; they married 15 May 1810; family register folio 171. The register spells her surname Hartweck; the site keeps the index spelling Hertweck for her name. Her birthplace and her mother's surname are only partly legible.
97. S4561910 U.S. Federal Census — Julius H. Proeger household, Ward 19, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ED 531), 1836 Lang Avenue. Ancestry record 23848989. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Julius H. Proeger, 42, clerk, born Pennsylvania, both parents born Germany, married 21 years; Ida W., 39, mother of 1 child, 1 living; son Edgar W., 19; and a German-born servant. The servant is not kin, though the relationship column calls her “daughter”. German-born parents fit Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer, but the census does not name them.
98. S502Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records — certificate 49141, 30 December 1939: Katharine Charlotte Ross and Robert Brame Yates. Ancestry record 1527459034. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Katharine Charlotte Ross, 21, born Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, married Robert Brame Yates at Kernstown, Virginia; her father Charles W. Ross, her mother “Caroline Progger”, of 923 N. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh. This is the daughter's marriage, not Caroline's. It proves Caroline married Charles W. Ross; the September 1914 date still needs its own source.
99. S537Pennsylvania, U.S., County Marriage Records — Allegheny County licence docket no. 16260, 1889. Ancestry record 2136798. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Julius Proeger Jr”, born Pittsburgh 29 July 1867, clerk, of Uniontown, Fayette County; Ida Wagoner, born Pittsburgh 3 October 1869, of the 32nd Ward, with the consent of A. C. Wagoner; licensed and married 12 June 1889 by Rev. W. J. Smalley.
100. S5461930 U.S. Federal Census — Julius H. Praeger household, Tampa, Florida. Ancestry record 102978581. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Julius H. Praeger”, 62, real-estate broker, born Pennsylvania, parents born Germany; wife Ida W., 60; married at 21 and 19, their exact ages in June 1889.
101. S559Masonic membership card — Chagres Lodge, Canal Zone: Julius Herman Proeger. Ancestry record 251264. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Born Pittsburgh, 29 July 1867; salesman at Colón, Panama; raised 1922; suspended 6 August 1928. The birth date and place match his 1917–1921 passport applications.
102. S560Parish baptism register, Pittsburgh (Rev. R. J. Coster), June 1891. Ancestry record 16846432. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Edgar Wagner Proeger, son of Julius H. Proeger, born 22 June 1890. The same day the register baptises an Andrew Wagner, about 50 and “very ill”, at his home on Wyoming Street. Ida Waggoner lived on Wyoming Street when she married, but nothing on the page says he was her father.
103. S564U.S. World War I Draft Registration Card — Luis Walter Proeger, 12 September 1918. Ancestry record 25933253. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Born 10 January 1881; designer and inventor of machinery, self-employed; 6461½ Aurelia Street, Pittsburgh; nearest relative his wife, May Stark Proeger.
104. S591Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, births 1804, p. 9, no. 10: Georg Melchior Julius Proeger, 25 July 1804. Ancestry record 16796853, image 1860313-00512. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Son of Johann Leonhard David, Tüncher Mstr. at Erkenbrechtshausen, and Maria geb. Büschin (Anna Maria Busch); born at Erkenbrechtshausen. This is his birth register, and it names his mother as Anna Maria Busch, not Eva Barbara Schmid. The 1835 marriage index and the 1870 burial name Eva Barbara, his stepmother, who raised him.
105. S592Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Rot am See/Gerabronn, marriages 1806, pp. 128–129, no. 2: Johann Leonhard Pröger and Eva Barbara Schmidt, 4 March 1806. Ancestry record 14580649, image 1528601-00416. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed The groom a master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, ein Wittwer (a widower); the bride the single daughter of Johann Michael Schmidt, master weaver at Brettenfeld. Married at Triensbach on 4 March after three banns; the index's 2 March is the last banns.
106. S593Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, burials 1806, no. 14: Leonhard Michel David Pröger, December 1806. Ancestry record 16796415, image 1860313-00451. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Of Erkenbrechtshausen, died of hitzige Krankheit (a fever), aged 34; buried 21 December 1806.
107. S594Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1772, pp. 90–91, no. 7: Johann Leonhard David Pröger, 5 June 1772. Ancestry record 16794369, image 1860313-00057. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Son of Johann Michael Pröger of Erkenbrechtshausen and Anna Margaretha (surname read Rösig/Rasig); born at noon on 5 June and baptised the next day.
108. S595Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Ellrichshausen, marriages 1796, pp. 187–188, no. 9: Johann Leonhard Pröger and Anna Maria Büschin. Ancestry record 16728664, images 1859439-00674/-00675. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Banns November 1796, wedding at Triensbach. The groom 24, master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, the only son of the late Johann Michael Pröger; the bride Anna Maria Büschin, 30, youngest daughter of the late Johann Michael Busch, Halbbauer at a village read as Beu[e]rlbach (uncertain).
109. S596Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1740, p. 78, no. 8, and burials 1795, p. 336, no. 70: Johann Michael Pröger. Ancestry records 16644716 (image 1860322-00703) and 16795410 (image 1860313-00186). Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Born 28 April 1740, son of Johann Caspar Pröger, farmer at Triensbach, and Margaretha; the pastor wrote his death, 20 April 1795, in the margin. The burial calls him a master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, aged 55 years less 8 days, buried 23 April. Indexed as "Tröger".
110. S597Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, marriages 1772, p. 124, no. 153, and Triensbach, marriages 1777, p. 185, no. 1: Johann Michael Pröger. Ancestry record 15794593 (image 1528606-00712) and image 1860313-00108. Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 22 January 1772: Johann Michael Pröger and Margaretha Rasigin, both servants at the manor farm of Erkenbrechtshausen, the bride pregnant. 18 February 1777 at Triensbach: Johann Michael Pröger, 37, master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, a widower, and Eva Barbara Aufläderin, daughter of the late Johann Georg Aufläder, smith at Mistlau.
111. S598Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1745, p. 96, no. 8, and burials 1776, p. 262, no. 11: Anna Margaretha Raisig. Images 1860322-00713 and 1860313-00146 (not indexed). Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Baptised 22 May 1745, born in the night, daughter of the late Georg Michael Raisig, farmer at Triensbach, and his widow Anna Barbara; her godmother was Johann Caspar Pröger's wife. The pastor's margin note, † 15 July 1776, ties it to her burial: wife of Johann Michael Pröger, linen weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, died of a fever aged 31 years and 8 weeks.
112. S599Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1714, p. 160, no. 6, and Lendsiedel, marriages 1737, p. 649, no. 3: Johann Caspar Pröger. Ancestry records 16642861 (image 1860322-00440) and 14971270 (image 1528571-00374). Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Baptised 21 March 1714, son of Hans Preger, farmer at Triensbach, and Elisabetha. Married Margaretha Bullingerin von Eichenau at Triensbach on 12 March 1737 after banns at Lendsiedel; her parents are not named.
113. S600Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Rot am See, burials 1777, p. 24, no. 16: Johann Caspar Präger, 23 July 1777. Ancestry record 14578838, image 1528601-00185. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed A widower, formerly a farmer, who had moved from Triensbach ten years before and lived on a retirement settlement; died of a three-day fever on 21 July, aged 63 years 4 months, which counts back to his 1714 baptism.
114. S601Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, burials 1762, p. 237, nos. 10–11: the infant Anna Maria and Margaretha, wife of Johann Caspar Pröger. Image 1860313-00133. Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 30 August 1762: Johann Caspar's youngest daughter Anna Maria, five weeks old. 9 September 1762: his wife Margaretha, geborne Bül[l…]in of [Eichenau?], died 7 September in childbed. Probable for her identity: the husband's surname initial and the village word are hard to read, and her age cannot be read.
115. S602Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1746–1754 and burials 1755: children of Johann Caspar Pröger and Margaretha. Images 1860322-00720, 1860322-00727, 1860313-00012, 1860313-00127; Ancestry records 16644822, 16644919, 16794059, 16794769. Read 25 September 2026. Johann Caspar (bapt. 24 February 1746, index only), Johann Melchior (bapt. 14 December 1748; the index's 1747 is wrong), Johann Georg (bapt. 25 November 1751), Johann Michael (bapt. 20 April 1754, buried two days later), Anna Ursula (buried 13 August 1755, nine days old) and Anna Maria (buried 30 August 1762).
116. S603Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1712 and burials 1744: Georg Michael Raisig. Images 1860322-00437 and 1860322-00778. Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Baptised 26 September 1712, son of Hannß Rasig, farmer, and Anna Maria; buried 28 October 1744, aged 32 years 1 month 1 day.
117. S604Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, marriages 1740, no. 6, and 1745, no. 7: Anna Barbara Groß. Images 1860322-00747/-00748 and 1860322-00751. Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 26 July 1740: Georg Michael Raisig, son of the late Hans Raisig, farmer and churchwarden, and Anna Barbara Großin, daughter of Caspar Groß, butcher at Ruppertshofen. 🆕 A second copy of the 1740 entry, in the bride's parish register at Gerabronn (Ancestry record 915834955, image 1528604-00107, read 26 September 2026), agrees, with banns on the 4th–6th Sundays after Trinity, and gives her father as Georg Caspar Groß, butcher, a Kirchberg subject. 13 July 1745: the widow Anna Barbara and Johann Melchior Frütz, son of the late Johann Michael Frütz of Ilshofen, new farmer at Triensbach.
118. S605Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, burials 1740, p. 219: Hans Raisig, 2 June 1740. Image 1860322-00774. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hanß Raisig, churchwarden and farmer at Triensbach, also a juror at Rot am See, aged 57 years less 12 days.
119. S606Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gaggstatt, baptisms 1737, no. 6, and burials 1768, no. 10; Triensbach, marriages 1797, no. 10: Eva Barbara Aufläder. Images 1528532-00465, 1528532-00850 (record 15205998) and 1860313-00387. Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Born 28 April 1737, daughter of Johann Georg Aufläder, Comburg smith, and Maria Ursula née Probst; her father died at Mistlau 27 May 1768, aged 74. On 2 August 1797 the widow of Johann Michael Pröger married Johann Jacob Bachmeier, a widowed master weaver.
120. S607Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Michelbach an der Heide and Triensbach, marriages 1704: Hans Pröger and Elisabetha, 20 May 1704. Ancestry records 15330609 (image 1528592-00362) and 16643399 (image 1860322-00473). Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed "Hanß Pröger, son of Hanß Pröger, farmer at Seibotenberg, new farmer at Triensbach", married Elisabetha at Triensbach. The Michelbach copy names her through her late first husband, the farmer Hanß Kochendörffer; the Triensbach copy's surname is lost in the binding, and its index reading "Stocklöv" is unexplained.
121. S608Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, burials 1736–1737, p. 215: Elisabetha Pröger née Schuster and Johann Pröger. Image 1860322-00772 (not indexed). Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable 17 April 1736: Elisabetha Prögerin, gebohrne Schusterin von Unter-Sch[merach], wife of Joh. Pröger, aged 57 years 4 months. 17 January 1737: Johann Pröger, "der alte Bauer", aged 63 years 8 months 15 days. They are tied to the Triensbach household by description, not by a named child.
122. S609Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Lendsiedel, baptisms 1678, p. 35, no. 10, and marriages 1701, p. 145, no. 10: Elisabetha Schuster. Ancestry records 14965258 (image 1528571-00055) and 14967111 (image 1528571-00111). Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Baptised 18 November 1678, daughter of Hans Schuster of Nieder-Schmerach and Maria. 🆕 Maria is Anna Maria Gronbach, by her parents' 1676 marriage (S805). Married 31 May 1701 at Triensbach Hanß Kochendörffer, son of the late Andreas Kochendörffer. The only Elisabetha Schuster born 1676–80 in the index; her burial age falls two to three weeks from this baptism.
123. S610Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Michelbach an der Heide, baptisms 1709–1722 and burials 1726: the Pröger households at Seibotenberg. Ancestry record 15335607 (image 1528592-00808) and Michelbach baptisms Bd. 7. Images examined, read 25 September 2026. They confirm Seibotenberg, a hamlet of Michelbach an der Heide, now part of Gerabronn, as a Pröger farm village, the word the 1704 marriage uses for Hans's father.
124. S611Kochendörfer brothers of Minnie Kochendoerfer — baptism, emigration and passenger indexes, 1839–1864. Ancestry 61023 records 14762261 and 14762439; Württemberg Emigration Index (Ancestry 3141) records 54880, 54870 and 54874; Hamburg Passenger Lists (Ancestry 1068) records 5480945 and 5480946, image K_1709_080468-0641, read 25 September 2026. Johann Carl, b. 21 March 1839 Langenburg, applied to emigrate to North America in October 1858. Friedrich, b. 25 December 1842, a shoemaker, 21, and Heinrich, a bookbinder, 19, both of Langenburg, sailed on the Humboldt from Hamburg to New York on 23 June 1864, entered as one party. Probable for Johann Carl and Friedrich: index rows only; the emigration index names no parents.
125. S612Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Langenburg, baptisms 1845, no. 17: Heinrich Hermann Kochendörfer, 14 May 1845. Image 1528568-01034 (not indexed). Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Son of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, cooper, and Eva Margaretha geb. Renk; family register Langenburg II fol. 279, the same folio as Minnie's 1847 entry.
126. S614Greensburg, Pennsylvania, city directory, 1927–28 (R. L. Polk & Co.), p. 363. Ancestry record 181912557. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Proeger Fredk A (Ethel G) musician h215 W 3d.
127. S623Triensbach (Württemberg) parish register, Bd. 6, baptisms 1797, pp. 210–211 — Johann Michael Pröger. Image 1860313-00311. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Born 15 April 1797 at 4 a.m. at Erkenbrechtshausen and baptised that day; son of Johann Leonhardt David Pröger, citizen-resident and master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, and Anna Maria, née Busch. Godparents Johann Julius Schn[a]r of Erkenbrechtshausen, Johann Michael Schäffer, and Johann Melchior [Kunzig?]. The godfathers' names Julius and Melchior were current in the family before Georg Melchior Julius was named in 1804; that they are the source of his name is only probable.
128. S631U.S. World War I draft registration, 1918 — Fred Proeger, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Ancestry record 10739249. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Fred Proeger, 131 North Maple, Greensburg, Westmoreland County; 44, born 24 November 1873; white, native born; musician; nearest relative Ethel Proeger, the same address; registered 12 September 1918. Signed Fred Proeger.
129. S666Michelbach an der Heide marriage register, 7 November 1699 — Hanß Pröger and Regina. Ancestry record 15330557, image 1528592-00357. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Hannß Pröger, Bauer zu Seibothenberg … ein Wittiber” marries Regina, widow of the late Jörg W[einmann?]. The late husband’s surname and village are only partly legible.
130. S673Michelbach an der Heide burial register, Bd. 6, 1704–1705 — including Philipp Pröger of Seibotenberg, March 1705. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers, film 1528592, images 00450–00453 (Philipp: 00451, 1705 no. 3); his 1676 marriage to Apollonia Sch[..]lerin, image 00318. Images examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Philipp Pröger, Br. zu Seibothenberg … aet. 77 weniger ¼ Jahr”. The 1704 and 1705 burials were read in full and hold no Hanß Pröger. The volume ends with the 1705 total; the next burial volume begins in 1722, so the burials of 1706–1721 are missing from this film. The day of Philipp’s burial is partly legible ([1]7 March). Nothing here links Philipp to Hanß.
131. S674Later-hand abstract of the Seibotenberg baptisms, 1651–1665 (Michelbach an der Heide parish). Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers, film 1528594, images 00328–00329. Images examined, read 26 September 2026. Probable Hans Pröger’s sons Leonhard (21 August 1652) and Melchior (15 June 1655); “Anna, Johann Prögers … Witwe” as a godmother in October 1665. This is a later copy, not the original register, and it does not name Hanß.
132. S675Triensbach burial registers, 1705–1721 (Bd. 3 to October 1715, Bd. 4 from 1716). Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers, film 1860322. Images examined at half resolution, read 26 September 2026. Not found No burial of Hanß Pröger of Seibotenberg. A negative search: he may have died elsewhere, or in the Michelbach gap of 1706–1721.
133. S729Langenburg, Württemberg, Lutheran baptisms, 1839, no. 10. Ancestry record 14762256. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Carl, born 21 March 1839 at 9 in the evening, baptised 27 March 1839 at Langenburg; parents Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha, born Renk. Family register Langenburg 1834, fol. 279.
134. S7331950 U.S. census, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, ED 65-77, sheet 17. Ancestry record 244607791. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Ethel G. Proeger, head, widow, 74, at 109 West Third Street. The index reads her age as 78; the image says 74, which fits her 1875 birth.
135. S737Triensbach marriage register, Bd. 12 p. 8, 1829: Johann Michael Pröger and Anna Barbara Hübner. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers, Ancestry record 16798699, film 1860313, image 00881. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Johann Michael Pröger, Taglöhner in Großaltdorf”, son of the late Johann Leonhard David Pröger, weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, and Anna Maria n. Busch, born 15 April 1797; bride Anna Barbara Hübner of Großaltdorf, born 27 April 1801, daughter of the late Johann Georg Hübner, farmer; married at Großaltdorf “d. 17. Juny 1829”. The Großaltdorf index (record 11997540) gives 17 January; the banns Sundays fit June only.
136. S738Triensbach marriage register, Bd. 12 pp. 46–47 no. 7, 1836: Georg Friedrich Pröger and Maria Margaretha Stegmaier. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers, Ancestry record 16798771, film 1860313, image 00902. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Georg Friedrich Pröger, B. u. Weber in Erkenbrechtshausen”, son of Joh. Leonhard David Pröger and “Eva Barbara geb. Schmidt”, born 27 February 1807; bride Maria Margaretha Stegmaier of the same place, born 10 December 1801, daughter of Georg Simon Stegmaier, weaver; married at Triensbach 20 September 1836.
137. S739Großaltdorf and Triensbach baptism, marriage and burial index entries, 1828–1907, for the children of Johann Michael and Georg Friedrich Pröger. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers (index). Index only, searched 26 September 2026. Probable The parents’ names and places match on every entry. The baptism images for the sons have not been read. Margaretha Barbara’s burial (S788) and Barbara’s baptism (S789) have been, and correct the index: Margaretha Barbara was born 20 January 1829 and died 23 January 1831. Burials and a marriage have since been read (S775, S777, S778) and correct the index: Johann Friedrich died at Hausen on 31 May 1907, and Johann Georg died on 28 February 1904, the 2 March date being his burial. The Württemberg emigration index has no entry for either brother.
138. S740Triensbach burial registers, 1709–1720: the children of Hans Pröger. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers, film 1860322, images 00507 (1709), 00508 (1713), 00758 (Bd. 4 p. 187, 1716) and 00761 (p. 192, 1720). Images examined at full resolution, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Hat Hanß Preger, Bauer allhie, sein jüngstes Töchterlein Maria Margaretha … ihres Alters 4 Tag” (18 June 1720); sons buried 30 July 1709 (1 year 4 months), 7 April 1713 (3 years 4 months) and 20 October 1716 (12 days, father written “Johann Preger”). Page 192 has no year heading; 1720 follows from the order of entries, with “Anno 1721” lower on the same page. Two 1709 entries (15 August, a boy aged 2 or 7; 15 September, a girl aged 6) carry an unread word before the child and are probably Kochendörffer stepchildren.
139. S769U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 — Harry Roberts, Wheeling, West Virginia, 5 June 1917. Ancestry record 22663161. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, September 2026. Confirmed Harry Henry Roberts, 28, of 921 Market Street, Wheeling; born 19 May 1889, Bellaire, Ohio; roller of zinc for the Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., Wheeling; single; mother, father and a sister depend on him; tall, slender, blue eyes, light hair. Signed “Harry Roberts”. Precinct 8, Washington District, Ohio County. The exact birth date and birthplace match his card. The card writes his middle name as Henry; the family tree has Harrison. Which is right is not settled.
140. S775Triensbach marriage register, 1864 no. 8: Georg Friedrich Pröger and Margaretha Barbara Bauer, 27 September 1864. Ancestry record 16799012. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Groom Georg Friedrich Pröger, born 25 December 1838 at Erkenbrechtshausen, son of “† Georg Friedrich Pröger, Weber und Köbler” and Maria Margaretha geb. Stegmaier; bride Margaretha Barbara Bauer of Gröningen, daughter of Johann Michael Bauer. Family register II,343. The cross before the father's name means he was dead by September 1864. A second Georg Friedrich Pröger, a living master weaver (family register II,344, wife the late Catharina Barbara Philipp?), appears on the same page; this entry is ours by its register number and the mother's name. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
141. S776Triensbach burial register, 1887 no. 5: Maria Margaretha Frank, born Stegmaier, died 16 May 1887. Ancestry record 16190318. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Maria Margr. Frank g. Stegmaier”, a weaver's widow at Triensbach, died 16 May 1887 of dropsy and was buried 19 May, aged 85 years 5 months. Husbands: I. † Georg Friedr. Pröger, weaver; II. † Joh. Leonhard Frank, weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen. Parents: † Gg Simon Stegmaier, weaver, and † Kathrine Batz. Family register II,343. The same register number as the 1864 marriage (S775), which ties the two entries to one family. It gives her birth as 18 December 1801; her 1836 marriage (S738) says 10 December. Both are secondary for the birth and the question is open until her 1801 baptism is read. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
142. S777Untersontheim burial register, 1907 no. 6: Johann Friedrich Pröger, died at Hausen 31 May 1907. Ancestry record 11725277. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Friedrich Pröger, weaver, died at Hausen on 31 May 1907 of acute pneumonia and was buried at Untersontheim on 2 June. Born 30 September 1834 at Großaltdorf, son of Johann Michael Pröger and Anna Barbara Hübner. Wives: 1) the late Anna Maria Probst (reading uncertain), 2) Rosina Crasser (reading uncertain). Corrects the index, which maps his death to Merkelbach. The birth date here (30 September) differs from the tree's 6 October, which may be the baptism; the 1834 Großaltdorf baptism image has not been read. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
143. S778Großaltdorf burial register, 1904 no. 3 (p. 135): Johann Georg Pröger, died at Kleinaltdorf 28 February 1904. Ancestry record 11999376. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Georg Pröger, an unmarried Häusler (cottager), died at Kleinaltdorf on 28 February 1904 and was buried at Großaltdorf on 2 March. Born 24 June 1830 at Großaltdorf, son of Johann Michael Pröger and Anna Barbara Hübner, family register I,80. Corrects the tree and index, which give 2 March, the burial day, as his death. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
144. S779Großaltdorf marriage register, Bd. 7 p. 21, 1829 no. 1: Johann Michael Pröger and Anna Barbara Hübner, 17 June 1829. Ancestry record 911997540. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed The Großaltdorf copy of the marriage in S737: Johann Michael Pröger, born 15 April 1797 at Erkenbrechtshausen, son of the late Johann Leonhard David Pröger and “weil. Anna Maria geb. Busch”; bride Anna Barbara Hübnerin, born 27 April 1801, daughter of the late Johann Georg Hübner, farmer, church-council member and Heiligenpfleger, and Anna Catharina Frinauer (reading uncertain) of Hohnhardt (reading uncertain). A second register for the same wedding, and a second source for his mother Anna Maria Busch (S623). The index's 17 January is wrong here too. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
145. S788Großaltdorf burial register, 1831 no. 1: Margaretha Barbara Pröger, died 23 January 1831. Ancestry record 11998179. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Margaretha Barbara, daughter of Johann Michael Pröger and Anna Barbara geb. Hübner, born 20 January 1829, died 23 January 1831 of “stille Gichter” (convulsions), aged 2 years 3 days; buried 25 January 1831. Family register p. 80. Corrects the index and the tree (born 25 January 1828, died 25 January 1831): the tree took the burial date for the death. She was born five months before her parents married on 17 June 1829 (S737). Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985.
146. S789Großaltdorf baptism register, 1843 p. 192 no. 1: Barbara Pröger, born 8 January 1843. Ancestry record 11621501. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Barbara, born 8 January 1843 at half past twelve, baptised 12 January 1843 by Pfarrer Köstlin; parents J. M. Pröger, citizen and day labourer, and Anna Barbara geb. Hübner. Family register p. 80. The sponsors' surnames (Reichert?, Schließmann?) are uncertain readings. Moves Barbara from the S739 index to an image. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985.
147. S790Stöckenburg family register, vol. 23 fol. 87b: Georg Friedrich Osterlein and Rosine Barbara Pröger. Ancestry record 4630098. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed The bride is Rosine Barbara Pröger, born at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 September 1865, daughter of Georg Friedrich Pröger, farmer at Triensbach, and Marg. Barb. geb. Bauer. She married Georg Friedrich Osterlein, innkeeper at Altenmünster and later a farmer, at Triensbach on 26 March 1889, and died on 26 October 1952; buried at Stöckenburg 29 October 1952. Five children are entered. Her parents are the couple married at Triensbach in 1864 (S775). Only the bride's line is used here; her children are not named on this site. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Family Tables, 1550–1985.
148. S805Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Lendsiedel, marriages 1676 (image 1528571-00015): Hans Schuster and Anna Maria Gronbach, 29 February 1676. Ancestry record 914964776. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 27 September 2026. Probable Read at full resolution: "d. 29. febr. sind copulirt worden Hannß Schüst[er] bey undern Schmerach … u. Anna Maria, Hannß Gronbachs deß jüngern, [Bauers] zu großen Allmerspann, ehelich ledige Tochter": Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach married Anna Maria, the single daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger, a farmer at Groß-Allmerspann. The same hamlet as Elisabetha's 1736 burial (“born Schuster of Unter-Schmerach”, S608) and the same parish as her 1678 baptism, which calls her mother simply Maria (S609). A margin insertion probably names the groom's late father as Michel Schuster, a farmer at a place beginning with K; that reading is tentative; the site gives it as Probable, accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. A crop of the entry is in documents/schuster. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985.
149. S806Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Ilshofen, marriages 1699, 3rd entry: Johannes Schuster, widower, and Anna Barbara Schuhmann, 22 August 1699. Ancestry record 11969031. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 27 September 2026. Probable "Johannes Schüst[er], Wittwer zu Underschmerach, und Anna Barbara, Jörg Schuhmanns zu R[…] ehel. Tochter", married 22 August 1699 at Ilshofen after banns read three times at Lendsiedel and Kirchberg. A widower of Unter-Schmerach, banned in Lendsiedel parish: the same name, hamlet and parish as the 1676 groom (S805), so his first wife Anna Maria Gronbach had died before August 1699. One entry cannot rule out a second Johannes Schuster in the hamlet, and the bride's village is illegible. The index's “Schust” is the Schüst[er] abbreviation. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985.
150. S814Gerabronn marriage register, 1766, p. 53, no. 6 — Johann Georg Hartweck and Maria Margaretha Scheuermann, 8 April 1766. Ancestry record 914786966 (image 1528537-00949). Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Georg Hartweck [?] of Oberweiler marries Maria Margaretha Scheuermännin, daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann of Gerabronn, at Michelbach an der Lücke. Read from the old German hand; the groom's surname is read with some doubt. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
151. S815Gerabronn baptism register, 1743, p. 110, no. 6 — Maria Margaretha, daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann. Ancestry record 164785125 (image 1528537-00586). Image examined at full resolution, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed “Maria Margaretha, Johann Adam Scheuermanns, Brandenburgischen Unterthanens, Köblers und Gemeinen Hirtens allhier in Gerabronn, und seiner Ehewirthin … Margaretha” (Maria struck through, Eva written above). The entry runs onto the next leaf, so the day is not on this image; the entry before it is dated 30 January 1743. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
152. S832Vermont birth return — Artemiza Morrison, Ryegate, 18 October 1867. Vermont Vital Records 1720–1908, Ancestry collection 4661, record 441247 (image 41599_312395-00307), p. 275; Alex. Cochran, town clerk. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed “Artemiza”, female, born 18 October 1867; mother's maiden name Lizzie Miller, born Ryegate; father Orange Morrison, born Ryegate, farmer. Her birth return, written at the time; the same birth date as her 1930 death record (S359).
153. S8331880 U.S. Federal Census — Orange G. Morrison household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont, SD 137, ED 51, p. 14. Ancestry collection 6742, record 22412260 (image 4244814-00289); enumerated 12 June 1880, dwelling 126, family 134. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Morrison, Orange G., 48, farmer, born Vermont; Elisabeth J., wife, 46, keeping house, born Vermont (her father born Vermont, her mother born Scotland); Marion E., daughter, 19; Maggie J., daughter, 14, at school; Artemiza, daughter, 12, at school. The relationship column makes Artemiza a daughter of the head and Elisabeth J. his wife.
154. S834FamilySearch index — Vermont marriage of Henry W. Henderson and Artie H. Morrison. FamilySearch 1:1:QPQX-4GVF (Vermont Town Clerk Vital Records) and 1:1:XF7D-2BX (Vermont Vital Records). Checked 28 September 2026. Probable Bride Artie H. Morrison, born Ryegate; her parents Orange G. (O. G.) Morrison and Elisabeth Miller. Index entries only, with no image read here; independent of the birth return (S832) and the death record (S359). The index gives her birth year as 1868. The marriage card itself is S357.
155. S835Gerabronn marriage register, 1742, no. 1, p. 327 — Johann Adam Scheuermann and Eva Margaretha Stapf, 16 January 1742. Ancestry record 914782826 (image 1528537-00181). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed “Johann Adam Scheuermann, Brandenb. Unterthan, Köbler und Gemeinds Hirt allhier in Gerabronn, ein Wittwer, ist mit seiner verlobten Braut [Maria struck through, Eva in the margin] Margaretha, weyl. Andreas Stapfens, gewesenen Hochfürstl. Comburgischen Unterthanens und Bauers zu Wollmershausen … nachgelassenen ehelich ledigen Tochter … den 16. Jan. … copulirt”: Johann Adam Scheuermann, a widower, herdsman at Gerabronn, married Margaretha, the single daughter of the late Andreas Stapf, farmer at Wollmershausen. Read at full resolution from the old German hand. FamilySearch indexes the same marriage as 1:1:QPP2-DKBY (not independent), and a son Johann Georg, of Johann Adam Schuermann and Eva Margareta, as 1:1:QPP2-7PK4. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
156. S836Langenburg marriage register, p. 536 — Hans Gronbach and Eva Kreber (Kerber), 27 November 1649. Ancestry record 914633326 (image 1528570-00508). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable “Hanß Gronbach, Hansen Gronbachs [wirts?] zu großen Allmerspach fil. legit. und Eva, Jörg Krebers [or Kerbers] zu großen Allmerspach filia relicta”: Hans Gronbach, son of Hans Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann, married Eva, the surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann. Read at full resolution. The surname can be read Kreber or Kerber. The register calls her only Eva. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
157. S837Langenburg baptism register, p. 348, line 13 — Anna Maria, daughter of Johannes Gronbach and Eva, December 1652. Image 1528570-00417. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable “Johannes Gronbach zu Großallmerspach | Eva | Anna Maria”. The same father, hamlet and given name as the Anna Maria, daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger of Groß-Allmerspann, who married Hans Schuster in 1676 (S805), who would then have been 23. No document names Eva as the 1676 bride's mother. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
158. S840Ancestry index — Germany, Select Births and Baptisms: Elisabethe Sabina Lösch. Ancestry collection 9866, record 28291305. Probable Elisabethe Sabina Lösch; father Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch; mother Maria Dorothea Wolf. An index with no image. Ancestry's collection 9866 is the FamilySearch births and baptisms index, so it is not independent of FamilySearch; it is independent of the marriage index (S122). ⚠ Her 1872 burial entry, read from the register, gives her mother as Maria Dorothea geb. Muck and her father as Johann Heinrich Melchior (S133).
159. S8751930 U.S. Federal Census — Hans S. Helgedalen household, Goose Prairie Township, Clay County, Minnesota (ED 14-17, sheet 4B, line 100, dwelling/family 80). Ancestry record 80120612 (image 4610037_00689). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Hans S. Helgedalen, head, 50, first married at 21, born Minnesota, father born Norway, mother born Wisconsin, farmer. Enumerated 22–23 April 1930. He is the last line of the sheet; his household continues on the next sheet (S876).
160. S8761930 U.S. Federal Census — Hans S. Helgedalen household, continuation sheet, Goose Prairie Township, Clay County, Minnesota (lines 1–6, family 80). Ancestry record 80120586 (image 4610037_00690). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Beulah, wife, 23, first married at 21, born North Dakota; Clayton A., son, 23; Morise, son, 16; Charles E., son, 4 9/12, born Minnesota; Janice M., daughter, 1; Elizabeth I., daughter, under 1. Continues S875. Clayton and Morise are evidently from Hans's earlier marriage.
161. S877Minnesota, Clay County school census records, 1939–43, Ulen — Charles Helgedalen. FamilySearch index entries 1:1:Q2QR-P52M, Q2QT-8MZX and Q2QT-9N29. Read from the index, read 28 September 2026. Probable Charles Helgedalen, born 5 March 1926; parent Hans Helgedalen. Three yearly entries; images not read.
162. S8831921 Census of Canada — Helen Dubuque household, Wallaceburg, Kent County, Ontario (district 93, sub-district 42, page 21, dwelling 239, family 240). Ancestry record 866274 (image 1921_066-e002936157). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Helen Dubuque, head, widowed, 43, born Ontario; Harvy, son, 15; Gertrude, daughter, 12; Herbie, son, 9; Mabel, daughter, 8, born Ontario; William, son, 6. The census gives only “Mabel”; Ovalline Mabel Dubuque was born 24 April 1913 in Kent County.
163. S884Ontario marriage register — Jules Dubuc and Helene Labutte. Ancestry record 1323956; FamilySearch index FMK8-8RX. Read from the index, read 28 September 2026. Probable Helene Labutte married Jules Dubuc; her parents Francois Labutte and Agnes Lanzon. Index only; the register image has not been read.
164. S921Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Wallhausen (Kirchenbezirk Blaufelden), burials 1814, vol. 9, no. 8: Georg Michael Renk, died 13 September 1814. Ancestry collection 61023, record 764988521. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed “Georg Michael Renk, Maurer dahier”, son of Georg Sebastian Renk, mason here, Lutheran, and Eva Barbara, Lutheran; widower of Maria Barbara (her maiden name is hard to read); aged 75 years 9 months 23 days; died of Entkräftung (the weakness of age) at Wallhausen on 13 September at noon; buried 15 September. The index calls this a baptism; the page is the burial register. The birth about November 1738 is computed from the age, not recorded.
165. S922FamilySearch index — burial of Georg Michael Renk, Wallhausen, 15 September 1814. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QPPG-W66W, checked 28 September 2026. Probable Georg Michael Renk, born 1739, buried 15 September 1814; parents Georg Sebastian Renk and Eva Barbara; the index reads the wife's maiden name as “Trencheim”. An index of the same register entry as S921, not an independent record.
166. S925Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, death register, 1891, p. 559 — Lizzie D. Gregg, 30 May 1891. Ancestry record 193310. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Lizzie D. Gregg, white, female, aged 36 years 11 months, died 30 May 1891 of pneumonia and convulsions; born in Virginia; late of the 20th Ward, Pittsburgh, for 1 year 7 months, previously of Carmichaels, Greene County; buried at Carmichaels 1 June 1891; undertaker Thomas B. Moreland. The D. fits her maiden name, Darling. Her age gives a birth about June 1854, in line with her age of 26 in 1880 (S416).
167. S926Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, marriage docket no. 10106 — Augustus E. Gregg and Sarah E. Wright, 28 September 1892. Ancestry record 147383. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Probable Augustus E. Gregg, contractor, of the 20th Ward, Pittsburgh, born in Greene County on 11 September 1849, married before, the marriage “dissolved by death of his former wife”; and Sarah E. Wright, born in Washington County on 28 December 1861. Married 28 September 1892 by J. V. McKay. Taken to be Edward Gregg: the Greene County birth, his age of 30 in 1880, his widowhood and the 20th Ward sixteen months after Lizzie died there all fit, and Ethel's 1896 marriage index gives her father as A. E. Gregg. No record says that Augustus E. and Edward are one man.
168. S927Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, death register, 1905, p. 575 — Edwin Alexander Gregg, 19 September 1905. Ancestry record 405285. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Edwin Alexander Gregg, white, male, aged 56 years 0 months 7 days, married, contractor, died 19 September 1905 of mitral stenosis; born in Greene County; father Alfred Gregg, mother Mary Gregg, both born in Greene County; of 681 South Lang Avenue, 22nd Ward; buried at Carmichaels 22 September 1905; undertaker Thomas B. Moreland. Taken to be Edward Gregg: a Greene County birth in September 1849, a contractor, burial at Carmichaels and the undertaker who buried Lizzie in 1891 (S925).
169. S9281850 U.S. census — Alfred Gregg household, Cumberland Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Ancestry record 121795. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 15 August 1850, dwelling 188: Alfred Gregg, 51, farmer; Mary, 45; Ann Eliza, 24; and younger children down to John W., 3, and Edwin, 8/12. Eight months old in August 1850 fits a birth in September 1849.
170. S9291860 U.S. census — Alford Gregg household, Cumberland Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania (post office Carmichaels). Ancestry record 3743853. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 115: Alford Gregg, 61; Mary, 55; James, 23; Ellis, 19; William, 16; John, 12; Edwin, 10; all born in Pennsylvania. The census states no relationships; Edwin's parents are named by his death register (S927).
171. S930Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, marriage licence docket no. 22966 — William Spicer MacDonald and Mable Darling Gregg, 21 November 1906. Ancestry record 902840657. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed William Spicer MacDonald, clerk, of New York, born 31 October 1876; and Mable Darling Gregg, of East Liberty, born at Carmichaels on 17 November 1878. Licence 20 November; married 21 November 1906 by Rev. Wm. J. Miller. The bride gave her own birth date. Her middle name is her mother's maiden name. The docket gives the groom's birthplace as Scotland; his daughter's 1913 birth certificate gives North Sydney, Nova Scotia.
172. S931Pennsylvania death certificate — Mabel Gregg MacDonald, 30 January 1968, Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County. Ancestry record 15192131. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Mabel Gregg Mac Donald, widow of William S., of 224 Underwood Avenue, Greensburg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, died 30 January 1968; father Edward Gregg, mother Elizabeth Darling; buried at St. Clair Cemetery 1 February 1968. The same parents and birthplace as her sister Ethel's certificate (S423).
173. S9421940 United States Federal Census — Pittsburgh Ward 11, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, ED 69-266, sheet 4A, lines 32–34 (10 April 1940). Ancestry record 22190050. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed House 5805 Hayes Street, owned, valued $8,000: Murfin, Godfrey, head, 63, married, born England, naturalized; Gertrude, wife, 56, born Pennsylvania; Marjorie, daughter, 22, single. All three were in the same house in 1935. The same couple as the 1920 census in her father Julius Proeger's house (S179) and Godfrey's 1931 petition (S365), which names their one daughter Marjone Louise, born 1917; the index spells her Marjarie. Gertrude's 56 fits the petition's May 1883 birth. In 1920 and 1950 they were at 711 N. St. Clair Street. Collection: 1940 United States Federal Census.
174. S944Pennsylvania coroner's certificate of death — Godfrey Murfin, Pittsburgh, 17 December 1957 (file no. 107996, registered no. 9252). Ancestry record 5522000. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Godfrey Murfin, male, white, widowed, died 17 December 1957 at 11:00 a.m. at his home, 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh; born England, 20 April 1876, aged 81 years 7 months 27 days; retired. Spouse Gertrude Proeger; father Godfrey Murfin; mother's maiden name Hanna Kirkland. Cause: coronary occlusion. Informant Marjorie M. Veitch (daughter), Fairfield, Connecticut. Burial 20 December 1957, Smithfield Cemetery; funeral director H. Samson, Inc. The index reads the spouse as "Gertrude Praeger"; the image has Proeger. The address is Julius Proeger's house of 1920 (S179) and the couple's house in 1950 (S372). Collection: Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906–1972.
175. S945H. Samson funeral home ledger — funeral of Godfrey Murfin, Pittsburgh, 20 December 1957. Ancestry record 11434. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Sheet 30, headed "Repeat": funeral of Godfrey Murfin, 20 December 1957, Smithfield Cemetery, 2 p.m.; charged to the estate of Godfrey Murfin, c/o M. Austin George, Park Building, Pittsburgh; total $1,833.71, paid 10 January 1958. The same firm and cemetery as Gertrude's funeral in 1956 (S181). The facing page with the vital statistics shows only as bleed-through and was not read. Collection: Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., Samson Funeral Home Records, 1866–1982.
176. S9461930 United States Federal Census — Pittsburgh Ward 11, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, ED 2-172, sheet 13A, lines 35–37 (7 April 1930). Ancestry record 48469282. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed 711 N. St. Clair Street, owned, valued $16,000, radio: Murfin, Godfrey, head, 53, married (first at 37), born England, immigrated 1905, first papers, salesman of linens; Gertrude P., wife, 40, born Pennsylvania to German-born parents; Marjorie, daughter, 12, at school. Gertrude's 40 is the outlier against her other records (born about 1884); the site keeps about 1884. Collection: 1930 United States Federal Census.
177. S9471881 England Census — Wem, Shropshire, RG 11/2667, page 6, schedule 43, Aston Street. Ancestry record 18351847. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Probable Godfrey Murfin, head, 47, wheelwright, born Leek, Staffordshire; Hannah, wife, 41, born Leek; Mary E., 20, dressmaker; Maria, 8; and Godfrey, son, 4, scholar, born Wem. Why Probable: nothing American names Godfrey's parents except his 1957 death certificate (father Godfrey, mother Hanna, S944), and his citizenship petition gives Wem and 1876 (S365). A boy of 4 at Wem with parents Godfrey and Hannah fits both, but no record yet ties this household to Pittsburgh directly. Collection: 1881 England Census.
178. S9481891 England Census — Wem, Shropshire, RG 12/2123, page 12, schedule 68, 45 New Street. Ancestry record 13393916. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Probable Godfrey Murfin, head, 57, wheelwright, born Leek; Hannah, wife, 51, born Leek; Godfrey, son, 14, draper's apprentice, born Wem. Why Probable: the same household as 1881 (S947). The drapery trade fits the linen salesman of 1920 and 1930 (S179, S946), but the tie to Pittsburgh still runs only through the parents' names and Wem. Collection: 1891 England Census.
179. S949Vermont marriage card (bride) — Artie H. Morrison and Henry W. Henderson, Ryegate, Vermont, 1 January 1887. Ancestry record 850463. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Bride Artie H. Morrison of Ryegate, 19, first marriage, born Ryegate; father O. G. Morrison; mother Elizabeth (Miller). Groom Henry W. Henderson. Married 1 January 1887 by C. H. Farnsworth, clergyman; town clerk Alex Cochran. The bride's card for the marriage on the groom's card (S357). Her parents match her 1867 birth return (S832). Collection: Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720–1908.
180. S9501920 United States Federal Census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, ED 13, sheet 9A, lines 45–50 (January 1920). Ancestry record 37186200. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Farm, owned, mortgaged: Henderson, Henry, head, 55, dairy farmer; Artemiza, wife, 52; James, son, 21, farm labourer; Winona, daughter, 14, at school; with a boarder and a hired man. All born Vermont. Ages fit Artie born October 1867 and Henry born June 1864. Collection: 1920 United States Federal Census.
181. S954Vermont marriage card (groom) — Henry Roberts Jr. and Delinde (Delina) Deblois, Westfield, Vermont, 12 June 1867. Ancestry record 369707. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24–25 September 2026. Confirmed Groom Henry Roberts Jr., of Westfield, 22, labourer, first marriage, born Westford; father Henry Roberts; mother Laura (no surname given). Bride Delinde Deblois. Married 12 June 1867 at Westfield by a Catholic priest; town clerk Henry Miller. The birthplace Westford and the bride Deblois both match Leon H. Roberts's 1907 marriage record (S196). The index adds the surname Roberts to Laura, but it is not on the card. Collection: Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720–1908.
182. S9551880 United States Federal Census — Westfield, Orleans County, Vermont, page 6, dwelling 53, lines 7–11 (June 1880). Ancestry record 22480648. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24–25 September 2026. Confirmed Robberts, Henry, head, 35, farmer, born Vermont to Canadian-born parents; Delina, wife, 27, born Vermont; Leora, daughter, 4; Theodore, son, 3; and Alice, daughter, 7 months (born November 1879). Robberts is the enumerator's spelling. The page gives Delina's mother as born in Vermont, but the 1900 census gives both her parents as born in Canada; the site records both. A second Henry Robberts, 59, born Canada, lives two dwellings away. Nothing on the page states a relationship, so he is a lead only. Collection: 1880 United States Federal Census.
183. S956Vermont death record — Henry Roberts, Newbury, Orange County, 2 November 1924 (certified copy, H. S. Knight, town clerk). Ancestry record 461455. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24–25 September 2026. Confirmed Henry Roberts, of Newbury, white, widowed, labourer, died 2 November 1924, aged 80 years 0 months 4 days; born 29 October 1844 at "Westboro, Vt."; father Henry Roberts, Sr., born Three Rivers, Canada; mother unknown. Cause: senility, with gastritis contributing; attended by F. E. Spear of Woodsville, N.H. Vermont has no town called Westboro. The site keeps Westford, the birthplace on two earlier records (S196, S954); the informant is not named. The age at death checks to the day against 29 October 1844. Collection: Vermont, U.S., Death Records, 1909–2008.
184. S958Pennsylvania certificate of birth no. 155557 — Karl Proeger Ross, Big Beaver Township (College Hill), Beaver County, 14 September 1915. Ancestry record 155801430. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Child Karl Proeger Ross, male, first child of his mother, born 14 September 1915 at 2:15 a.m. Father Charlie Ross, of College Hill, 35, born Indiana, assistant auditor; mother, maiden name Caroline Proeger, 27, born Pittsburgh, housewife; one child born, one living. Attended by J. V. Brown, M.D., of Koppel; filed 1 October 1915. Charlie's age is written 35 over 33, so his birth is held at about 1880. Caroline's age, 27, fits her birth on 7 April 1888 and rules out the 1889 on her death certificate. Collection: Pennsylvania, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1906–1917.
185. S9631870 United States Federal Census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont (P.O. McIndoes Falls), page 6, dwelling 40, family 42 (30 July 1870). Ancestry record 36853529. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henderson, William J., 41, farmer, real estate $5,000, personal $2,000, born Vermont; Caroline, 32, keeping house; Capitola, 10; Henry W., 6; Sarah, 72, at home, born Maine; Virginia, 14. All but Sarah born Vermont; the three children at school. The 1870 census states no relationships. His parents William J. Henderson and Carrie K. (Gilfillan) are named by his marriage and death records (S357, S361). Sarah, 72, is perhaps his grandmother, but nothing here says so. His age, 6, fits the June 1864 birth. Collection: 1870 United States Federal Census.
186. S966Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Wallhausen (Kirchenbezirk Blaufelden), marriages vol. 11, 1837: Georg Leonhard Johann Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837. Ancestry record 14293886. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Georg Leonhard Johann Kochendörfer, cooper (Küfer) in Gerabronn, born 1 March 1811 at Gerabronn, son of the late Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, day labourer in Gerabronn, and Eva Barbara geb. Hartweck; and Eva Margaretha Renk, daughter of Georg Andreas Renk and the late Maria Margaretha geb. Zink. Banns at Gerabronn and Wallhausen; married at Gerabronn on 29 November 1837. This is the bride's home parish's copy of the marriage in S444. It agrees on the names and dates. It calls him Küfer where Gerabronn has Büttnermeister (both mean cooper), spells the bride's mother Zink for Zins, and leaves her father's trade unclear. Ancestry's index cuts the surname to "Dörfer" and misreads März as Mai. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (db 61023, image 1528622-00151).
187. S970U.S., World War II Draft Cards, Young Men, 1940–1947 — Julius Karl Proeger, serial no. 2614, order no. 1362, Pennsylvania. Ancestry record 8836814. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Confirmed Julius Karl Proeger, born 1 October 1917; home 436 S. 5th St., Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, with a temporary address at New Martinsville, West Virginia, written above it; employer American Glass Co., Greensburg; the person who will always know his address is Mrs. Betty Ann Proeger, his wife. Read from the front of the card. The birth date matches the site exactly. The card gives his birthplace as “Campton, Pa.”, which is not an identifiable Pennsylvania place; this one self-report is not followed and the site keeps Tarentum. The Ancestry index's residence “New Martinsville, Virginia” misreads the temporary West Virginia address. Collection: U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men (db 2238, image 44033_04_00392-00036).
188. S9751900 U.S. census — Caledonia County, Vermont, ED 44, sheet 4A, dwelling 81. Ancestry record 61910640. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Confirmed In the household of Maggie J. Morrison, 34, single: her father Orange G., born February 1832, 68, a gardener, and her mother Elizabeth J., born October 1834, her mother born in Scotland, married 45 years. The Ancestry index places the page at Groton. The sheet's “1 child, 1 living” for Elizabeth is an enumerator's slip: she had at least four daughters (S360). Image 4120609_00107.
189. S9761910 U.S. census — Groton Village, Caledonia County, Vermont, ED 42, sheet 1B, 16 April 1910. Ancestry record 165365561. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Confirmed Orange G., 78, and Elizabeth J., 76, married 55 years, living in the house of their daughter Maggie J., 44, single, a dressmaker. A boarder, James J. Markham, 48, born in Canada, was a lumber manufacturer. Orange was alive on 16 April 1910. This census gives Elizabeth's mother's birthplace as Vermont; the 1880 and 1900 censuses say Scotland, which the site keeps. Image 4455039_00124.
190. S9821860 U.S. census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, post office South Ryegate, page 211, 4 July 1860, dwelling 1523. Ancestry record 35322148. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Confirmed Orange Morrison, 28, farmer, real estate $1,500, personal estate $100, with Eliza, 24, and “Winny”, 4. The next dwelling (1522) is Bradley Morrison, 57, with “Annis”, 57, and Harriet, 21. Orange's age fits his birth in February 1832 (S975), and “Winny” fits Winona of 1870 (S360). The census states no relationships; Bradley Morrison next door is not named here as his father.
191. S9871850 U.S. census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, 13 September 1850, dwelling 174. Ancestry record 1151445. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Probable Bradley Morrison, 48, farmer, real estate $2,500, and Avis, 47, with Orange, 17, laborer, at school, James, 15, and Harriet J., 11, and Juliette Whitehill, 17; all born Vermont. Orange's age, town and birthplace fit Orange G. Morrison, born February 1832 (S975). The 1850 census states no relationships, so Bradley and Avis as his parents is probable, not proven. In 1860 Bradley Morrison, 57, lived next door to Orange (S982), where his wife is written “Annis”. The index spells the surname Marrison.
192. S994New Hampshire death return — Marion E. Morrison, Littleton, Grafton County, 10 February 1892. Ancestry record 75177356. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28–29 September 2026. Confirmed Marion E. Morrison, died at Littleton, New Hampshire, 10 February 1892, aged 30 years 10 months, born at Ryegate, Vermont, single, a housekeeper; cause meningitis; buried at Groton, Vermont. Father Orange G. Morrison, born Ryegate, farmer; mother's maiden name Elizabeth J. Miller, born Ryegate. The index row is under her mother's name; the image is Marion's own death. She is the Marion of the 1870 and 1880 households (S360, S833).
193. S9991940 United States Federal Census — Greensburg, ward 7, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, ED 65-58, sheet 6B, dwelling 134. Ancestry record 18749768. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable Paul L. Shrum, 41, attorney at law; Eleanor, his wife, 41, born Pennsylvania; William, 10; Jane, 7; and a servant. The supplementary line gives Eleanor 2 children ever born. Paul L. Shrum was the informant on Ethel Gregg Proeger's 1957 Greensburg death certificate (S423), which is what ties this Eleanor to Eleanor E. Proeger. No Shrum–Proeger marriage record has been read.
194. S1000Oakland, California, city directory, pp. 264–265 (the year is not on the page; the index says 1943). Ancestry record 253720475. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable “DeBelling Warren E (Nancy) mach h9234 Sunnyside”: Warren E. DeBelling, machinist, and his wife Nancy, at 9234 Sunnyside. Queen Anne Proeger went by Nancy. The year rests on the index alone.
195. S10281920 United States Federal Census — Greensburg Ward 1, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district 102, sheet 6A. Ancestry record 34590930. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 550 Harrison Avenue: William S. MacDonald, 43, born Canada, salesman; Mabel, 40, born Pennsylvania; four daughters. Read from the image.
196. S10291930 United States Federal Census — Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district 65-43, sheet 11A. Ancestry record 56812695. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 224 Underwood Avenue: William Macdonald, trust officer at a bank; Mabel, wife, 47, married at 23; four daughters. Her age is about four years short of her 1878 birth.
197. S10301940 United States Federal Census — Greensburg Ward 7, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district 65-58, sheet 8A. Ancestry record 18749987. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 224 Underwood Avenue, owned, $9,000: William S., 64, born Canada, trust officer at a savings bank; Mable, 61, the informant; three daughters. Read from the image.
198. S10311950 United States Federal Census — Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district 65-86, sheet 74. Ancestry record 243969794. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 224 Underwood Avenue: William MacDonald, 73, born Canada, bank trust officer; Mable G., wife, 71, born Pennsylvania; a daughter. The index reads the street as “Westerwood”.
199. S10341870 United States Federal Census — Borough of Carmichaels, Greene County, Pennsylvania, page 8. Ancestry record 42297046. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 60, enumerated 6 June 1870: Mary Gregg, 65, keeping house, real estate $7,500; Augustus E., 20, carpenter, born Pennsylvania. Read from the image.
200. S1036Pennsylvania Certificate of Death no. 101045 — Latrobe, Westmoreland County. Ancestry record 3972827. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Charles W. Ross, of Ligonier Street, Latrobe, married, husband of Caroline Ross, 55; died 16 November 1942, aged 62; born 11 August 1880, Indiana; accountant; buried Woodlawn, Pittsburgh, 19 November 1942. Parents given as unknown.
201. S1037Canadian Immigration Service, Port of Windsor (Ouellette Avenue Auto Landing), admissions and rejections, December 1932, vol. 9, p. 302, line 1. Ancestry record 2955555. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 20 December 1932: Proeger, Dorothy, 18, married, housewife, last residence Toledo, born Indianapolis, Indiana; going to visit her husband William Proeger, 635 Duke St., Wallaceburg, Ont.; nearest relative her father Charles L. Reid. Rejected.
202. S10381930 United States Federal Census — Washington Township, Lucas County, Ohio, enumeration district 48-193, sheet 1B. Ancestry record 70850461. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Summit Street, 10 April 1930: Charles L. Reid, 38, machinist, born Ohio; Bessie, 40, born Indiana; Dorothy, daughter, 16, in school, born Indiana.
203. S10391910 United States Federal Census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, enumeration district 50, sheet 4B. Ancestry record 28904537. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 71: Henry W. Henderson, 44, farmer, owning a mortgaged farm, born Vermont; Addie M., 42, married 23 years, six children born, five living; Marion E. 17, James M. 12, Winnona M. 5. Next door: Mary A. Morrison, 78, widow.
204. S1043Belmont County, Ohio, Probate Court marriage record no. 4724, pp. 582–583. Ancestry record 1201052391. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Samuel R. Roberts, 23 on 13 March 1907, car inspector of Bellaire, born Bellaire, son of Henry S. Roberts and Rose A. Williams, licensed 19 August 1907 to marry Mary Doughty, 20, of Martins Ferry; married 20 August 1907.
205. S1045U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (“fourth registration”), serial U 1539 — Local Board No. 1, Luzerne County, Wyoming, Pennsylvania. Ancestry record 1659993. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Registered 27 April 1942: Charlie W. Ross, 61, of the Hotel Loyal, Latrobe, Westmoreland County; born 11 August 1880 at Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana; employer Stupakoff Ceramic and Mfg. Co., Latrobe; contact Mrs Charlotte Yates, 5802 Rural St., Pittsburgh; 5 ft 9 in, 130 lb, gray eyes and hair. Anomaly: he lived in Westmoreland County but the card was registered and stamped by a Luzerne County board (Wyoming, Pa.); the page does not say why. The birth date matches his 1942 death certificate (S1036).
206. S10491860 United States Federal Census — Martinsville (Martins Ferry), Pease Township, Belmont County, Ohio, page 107, dwelling 777. Ancestry record 43664618. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable 28 July 1860: a Roberts household, the head a laborer of 31 born Ohio, with his wife, 31, and children Margaret 12, Ephalinda 9, Rachel H. 7, H. S. L. Roberts, 5, and Mary C. 2, all born Ohio. A candidate childhood household only: the boy’s initials and age fit Henry S. Roberts (b. November 1854), but the census states no relationships and no document yet names his parents, so the adults are not published here as his parents.
207. S10511940 United States Federal Census — South Ryegate, Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, E.D. 3-22, sheet 3-A. Ancestry record 42500741. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed 4 April 1940: in the household of Perley A. Sulham, 51, sawyer at a granite shop, and Winona M., 35, the informant, with their children, is Henry W. Henderson, 75, father-in-law, born Vermont, parents born Vermont, usual occupation farmer, unable to work, same place in 1935. The page marks him “S” (single), which cannot be right for a widower with a married daughter; and it marks him a veteran of an “other war or expedition”, which no other record yet explains and which is not published as a war.
208. S1077Langenburg baptism register, 1631, vol. 12 p. 294 — Eva, daughter of Georg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspach and Maria, 22 November 1631. Ancestry record 164631360 (image 1528570-00392). Image examined, read 30 September 2026. Confirmed Kindsvatter “Georg Kreber von grossen Almerspach”; Mutter “Maria”; Kind “Eva”; Gevatter “Eva Georg Gerbnerin”; 1631, 22 [November]. The same girl who married Hans Gronbach in 1649 as the daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann [S836]: one hamlet, one father’s name in two spellings, and a bride of eighteen. FamilySearch indexes this entry as QPP2-K9DL; the same search surfaced an Eva Elisabetha Kreber christened at Hall in 1756 to Georg Peter Kreber and Maria Susanna Woeller (N882-2WY), an unrelated family that explains the “Peter” and “Elisabetha” in online trees.
209. S10871880 United States Federal Census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, page 16, dwelling 144, family 154. Ancestry record 22412397. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 15–16 June 1880: William J. Henderson, 51, farmer; Caroline K., 43, wife; Virginia J., 24, daughter; Henry W., 15, son, at school; all born Vermont. Henry W. Henderson of Ryegate married Artie Morrison there on 1 January 1887 (S357). It is the first census read for this page that states the relationship; the 1870 census [S963] states none. His marriage card [S357] and death card [S361] already name the same parents.
210. S1088U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863–1865 — Schedule I, Class I, 2nd Congressional District of Vermont, No. 305, line 19. Ancestry record 4259741. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed Dated 25 June 1863: Ryegate, Morrison Orange, 31, white, farmer, married, born Vermont. Ryegate is where Orange G. Morrison farmed in 1870 and 1880 and where Artie was born in 1867. The age gives a birth about 1832.
211. S1102England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index — births registered April, May and June 1876, page 382. Ancestry record 24084485. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed MURFIN, Godfrey, Wem, volume 6a, page 792. The only Godfrey Murfin in the quarter. An index entry; the certificate itself, which would name his parents, has not been ordered.
212. S1103U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 — Godfrey Murfin, Local Board Division No. 8, City of Pittsburgh, 12 September 1918. Ancestry record 10311825. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed Godfrey Murfin, 711 N. St. Clair, Pittsburgh, 42, born 20 April 1876, white, alien, non-declarant, a British subject (England); salesman for William Coulson & Son, 429 Fifth Avenue, New York; nearest relative his wife Gertrude P. Murfin, 711 N. St. Clair; tall, medium build, gray eyes, dark hair.
213. S1104U.S., City Directories, 1822–1995 — Pittsburgh city directory, 1932, page 1365. Ancestry record 190808703. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed “Murfin Godfrey (Gertrude P) slsmn h711 StClair N”. The index reads the house number as 6711; the image has h711, “h” for householder. The same page is filed under Gertrude as record 190808704.
214. S1107U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 — William Spicer MacDonald, Local Board Division No. 1, Westmoreland County, Greensburg, 12 September 1918. Ancestry record 118540489. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed William Spicer MacDonald, 550 Harrison Ave., Greensburg, 38, born 31 October 1879, white, a naturalized citizen; commercial representative, C. D. Telephone Co., W. Pittsburgh St., Greensburg; nearest relative Mabel Gregg MacDonald, wife, of the same address; tall, medium build, gray eyes, black hair.
215. S1118California Divorce Index, 1966–1984 — preliminary husband index 1966–77, p. 6,121: Warren E. Debelling. Ancestry record 2089395. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed “DEBELLING WARREN E”, born 1918; wife Ollie A. Arthur, born 1910; married 1963; preliminary decree March 1968; case 379241, state file 019153. The next line is a different Warren E. Debelling, born 1938. This one’s birth year, 1918, is the Warren Edgar Debelling who first married Queen Anne Proeger.
216. S1125Texas Birth Index, 1961 births, p. 276 (Texas Department of Health) — Elain Annett Belcourt. Ancestry record 158415485. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed “BELCOURT, ELAIN ANNETT”, 1961, female; mother Proger, Nancy Aileen [Proeger]; father Belcourt, Robert George. An index line, not the certificate itself. The county code, 071, has not been checked against the state’s numbering, so no county is given here. The child may be living, so only the name and year are given here.
217. S11331870 U.S. census — Westfield, Orleans County, Vermont, p. 9, dwelling 66 (9 June 1870). Ancestry record 36772064. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry Roberts, 25, farm labourer, born Vermont, both parents foreign-born; Delina, 17, keeping house, born Vermont, both parents foreign-born; Emma, 1, born Vermont. A DeBlois household is next door. Nothing on the page says how it is related.
218. S1134New Hampshire death return, Bath, 1908 — Elmer E. Roberts. Ancestry record 60512517. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Elmer E. Roberts, male, white, single, farming, died at Bath on 5 July 1908, aged 20 years 4 months, born 5 March 1888; cause, accidental drowning; father Henry Roberts Jr., born Westford; mother Delina Delois [Deblois]. Only the front of the card is imaged; the back, with the informant, is not.
219. S1135Pennsylvania certificate of birth no. 88934, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, 1913 (MacDonald). Ancestry record 335142870. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed A daughter, born 3 June 1913, the third child of her mother, 3 living; father William S. McDonald, 35, salesman, born North Sydney, Nova Scotia; mother Mabel Gregg, 34, housewife, born Carmichaels, Greene County. Only the parents’ details are given here.
220. S1136Virginia marriage record, Winchester, 1977, state file 77-016405 — Jane Shrum. Ancestry record 1529358070. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 27 September 2026. Confirmed The bride, Jane Shrum (then Shippy), born 1932 in Pennsylvania, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania; her father Paul Shrum; her mother’s maiden name Eleanore Proeger. The bride may be living, so only her name and birth year are given here.
221. S1147New Hampshire certificate of death, state file 68-1328, Haverhill, 1968 — James Henderson. Ancestry record 75791217. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed James Henderson, white, married, of Woodsville, born in Vermont on 7 February 1898; died 16 March 1968, aged 70, at Cottage Hospital, Haverhill (Woodsville), Grafton County; surviving spouse Hazel; father Henry Henderson; mother’s maiden name Morrison, given name blank. Entombed at Horsemeadow, Haverhill, 18 March 1968. The informant was the hospital’s medical records office, so the parents’ names are weaker than a family informant’s.
222. S1152Evangelical church register, Michelbach an der Lücke, Württemberg, burials 1854 — Catharina Margaretha Burkhardt, née Kochendörfer. Ancestry record 614823654. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed Catharina Margaretha Burkhart [Burkhardt], born 12 January 1773, at Gerabronn(?); widow of Johann Georg Burkhardt, Bürger here; her parents Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer, [Bürger] in Gerabronn(?), and Cath. So[phia?]; died at Michelbach on 22 February 1854 at 5 in the morning, of old age, aged 81 years 1 month 9 days; buried 24 February. Faded Kurrent. Her birthplace and her mother’s second name are uncertain readings. The age works out to 21 February, a day before the entered death date.
223. S11531870 U.S. census, Bellaire City, Pultney Township, Belmont County, Ohio, p. 8, dwelling 54 (30 June 1870). Ancestry record 39001297. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Probable Mary A. Williams, 52, keeping boarders, born Ohio, both parents foreign-born; Angeline, 23, at home, born Ohio; Rosa A., 15, at home, born Ohio, father foreign-born; then five boarders, a locomotive engineer and four coal miners. The 1870 schedule states no relationships, so Mary A. as Rosa’s mother and Angeline as her sister are probable, not proven. Rosa’s birthplace (Ohio) differs from West Virginia on her card.
224. S11571901 census of England, Birmingham, parish of St Philip, Market Hall ward, RG 13/2831, p. 14. Ancestry record 16209982. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed At 132–133 New Street, among eleven draper’s assistants and apprentices living in with Henry Simmons(?), general draper: Godfrey Murfin, single, 24, draper’s assistant, born Wem, Shropshire.
225. S1166Oakland, California, city directory, 1937, p. 703. Ancestry record 250960727. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Proger R F (Mable) glass mldr h1364 82d av”: R. F. Proger, glass moulder, and his wife Mable, house at 1364 82nd Avenue. The printer spelled the surname Proger. The trade and the wife’s name fit his 1940 census (S353).
226. S1174Daily News (Los Angeles), Monday 17 August 1942, page 11 — news item on the death of Mrs. Anna B. Proeger. Newspapers.com image 689233851. Page read (OCR) 1 October 2026. Confirmed “Mrs. Anna B. Proeger, 52, of 2123 Lemoyne st.”, after 20 years of migraine headaches, took an overdose of headache tablets at home and was dead when the police ambulance arrived; her husband said she had been especially nervous since a recent major operation. A reporter's account. Its age (52) and its initials for the husband and son (“H.” and “W. L.”) are press errors: the death index gives 49, and the husband is William L. It does not say whether the overdose was accidental, and no coroner's finding has been read.
227. S1175Los Angeles Examiner, Wednesday 19 August 1942, page 32 — paid death notice, PROEGER, Anna Blanche. Newspapers.com image 1345687044. Page read (OCR) 1 October 2026. Confirmed “PROEGER. Anna Blanche of 2123 Lemoyne ave., Los Angeles, loving wife of William L. Proeger.” The OCR breaks off at the services line, so the services and burial are not read from this notice.
228. S1176Los Angeles Times, 15 December 1955, page 61 — death notice, PROEGER, William Leonard. Newspapers.com image 380962183. Page read (OCR) 1 October 2026. Confirmed “PROEGER, William Leonard, late of 1540 Ewing Street, Los Angeles, loving father of Queen Anne Helgedalen, Richard F., William H. and Julius K. Proeger, brother of Carry Ross and Gertrude Murfin.” Services Friday, Utter-McKinley's Glendale mortuary. It names no wife, living or late.
229. S1177Los Angeles Mirror, 16 December 1955, page 27 — funeral notice, William Leonard Proeger. Newspapers.com image 694257945. Page read (OCR) 1 October 2026. Confirmed William Leonard Proeger, 79, of 1540 Ewing St., died Wednesday [14 December]; services at Utter-McKinley's Jewel City chapel; burial Valhalla Cemetery; he leaves a daughter, Queen Ann Helgedalen, three sons, Richard, William and Julius, and two sisters. It names no wife.
230. S1207California marriage index — Albert R. Collins and Patricia E. Proeger, married 1967. Ancestry, “California, U.S., Marriage Index, 1960–1985”, record 8294292 (bride index, page 20,493). Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Groom Albert R. Collins, 48; bride Patricia E. Proeger, 28; marriage 1967, county code 90; state file 46991. Earl Proeger, her nephew, confirmed on 2 October 2026 that the bride is his aunt Patricia and Albert R. Collins his uncle Family testimony. ⚠ A computer-printed index, not the certificate. County code 90 is not yet decoded, so the county is not given.