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Person · Gotleib Proeger
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationGotleib Proeger
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
Every claim is tagged
Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
Living — withheldThe person is living. By the privacy rule for this page, name and relationship are
shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- June 1882
- Parents
- Julius Karl Proeger & Minnie Kochendoerfer
- Sources
- 1
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1882
Born June 1882, Pennsylvania. No death record has been found
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
In the record
Generation 5 — the immigrants and the frontier
- 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.