Family defines people making them who they are. A person's family heritage, how their parents met and married, their parents’ occupations, their siblings, and their early lives play an important role in who they are and who they become. Every family is different and has different characteristics and members, but those differences are what make every family unique. Those differences combined with my family members’ experiences and the stories they have chosen to share are what makes this story exclusive to my family. My parents names are Erich and Nicole Multhauf. They are both from the Milwaukee area. My father's parents were named John and Barbara Multhauf. My grandfather John served in the Korean War before attending Marquette University Law School and marrying my grandmother Barbara. My grandfather later went on to help found Cramer, Multhauf, & Hammes, a law firm in his hometown of Waukesha. My grandmother Barbara worked as a first grade teacher, and later stayed home to raise my father and his three siblings. My father's siblings include my uncles: Jay, Kurt and John. My eldest uncles Jay and Kurt were adopted. My uncle Jay served in the army in Berlin before he married my aunt Christa. Together they have two daughters, Monika and Irene Multhauf. My …show more content…
My grandfather Michael is currently married to Linda and my grandmother Diane is currently married to my grandfather Richard. My mother has two sisters, my aunts Gina and Dana. My aunt Gina and my mother were born during my grandmother's marriage to my grandfather Michael Ziegenhagen. My aunt Dana was born during my grandmother's second marriage to Jeff Dentice. My aunt Gina attended U.W. Madison and currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona with my cousins Mira and Ethan. My aunt Dana graduated from U.W. Madison and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she works for a non-profit horticultural
My family consists of a short generation. My parents, Gina and Darrell, are divorced. I am the oldest and I have a younger brother, Kyle. My mom’s side of the family is the Cox family. My mom is the oldest of five.
I was born November 3, 1793 in Austinville, Virginia to Mary and Moses Austin. When I was nine years old we boarded a flatboat to go to Missouri so our family could live without being in debt. We arrived in Missouri and were planning on having a two-story house. Nearby, there was also a barn, stable, smokehouse, blacksmith shop, and henhouse. I often played with the neighbors, which are Indian children.
She met my grandfather Names Fred shortly after and married. My grandfather grew up in Redford Michigan with 3 other siblings. His mom was named Pearl and his father was named Fred. His mom was from Canada who liked to hold old traditions such as eating soft-boiled eggs and drinking tea for breakfast. My mother remembers That Pearl would make her eat them each time she came over and she hated them. Pearl was a housewife and his dad worked as a carpenter. His dad Fed worked with Henry ford the man. His father was the personal Carpenter for Henry ford. Over the years my grandfather graduated from High school in Redford and started to work for the Oakland county Road commission. Over the years Bonnie and Fred had a higher class than there parents and they became the norm in the family.
I have only one sibling as I mentioned earlier. Jennifer, who is three years older than I am. She graduated from Jefferson High School. She has since earned an Associate Degree from Gainesville Community College and is also employed by Regions Mortgage. In April of 1995 she married Jon Ray and they continue to reside in Jefferson, Georgia.
She’s my sister, we have the same biological mom. When she was five or so her parents got divorced. She lives in Indian Trail near Charlotte. I was adopted because my biological mom, Kristen, was seventeen then. My mom now is technically my aunt, but I just think of her as
I interviewed my dad Steve Wilhelm and he is my dad. He was born in 11/24/1966, in the wood county hospital. His siblings were Terri, Audrey and Amy and his parents were Marvin and Betty. The places he has lived is, Custar, BG, and more places. The schools he attended was S.L Catholic school, BGJHS, BGHS. What he looks like is or his physical description is strong or muscular, tallish and a little bald, and more.
As I previously stated, knowledge of my mother's side of the family is very limited, while my father's side dates way back. The farthest I am able to go with the Martin side is to my great great grandma, Dorothy. Of which I knew for most of my life, until my freshman year when she passed. Her husband was named Maynard Myers. He died of old age before I was able to meet him. I do know that he was in the army and had both of his legs amputated before coming back home. I was lucky to be able to not only meet my great great grandma, but to have her be such a huge part of my life. I dedicate a lot of what I do today in honor of her. My mother always told me stories about her from when she was younger and had her own singing radio show with my
My home page on the Internet is through ALL so I started with its web page (www.aol.com). On the web page is a direct link to genealogy areas of ALL and links to other sites on the web. On ALL sites, Genealogy Community Center, you can search for surnames by home pages that are linked to ALL. Of course, you can just about imagine that with all the surnames out there this might be a difficulty task. It's not, if you know what you are looking for. Of all the web sites, I visited every one said work backwards from what you know to what you don't know. I started with the farthest point I could remember. I began by searching for the surname "Walker." There are thousand of links to "Walker" families, so I chose a few that looked promising. I went to http://voyager.dvc.edu/~bmckinney/www.sisna.com/users/ryoung/walker/wgaf22.html. This site has an extensive history on Walker families. Names, birth dates, and death dates are all part of the information that is provided. The hardest part of genealogy is matching names to names and birth dates to birth dates to get accurate information. If you locate that information, it can lead you to people you didn't know about. But the challenge is getting through the thousands of names that come up.
Family is often the first form of socialization an individual gets. It occurs even before daycare, formal schooling, and peer influence. Family also affects an individual’s life opportunities by racial/ethnic history and socioeconomic history. My family is relatively small compared to most. As of August 2015, all of my great grandparents have passed away, leaving just three generations alive.
Gathering research about my family and its history turned out to be an interesting and insightful opportunity, through which I learned much more than I expected. When I started this project, I knew that I would not be able to find as much useful information on the Internet as some of my peers. In effect, I realized that I would have to rely on other primary resources such as my parents and grandparents to reveal the story of my ancestry to me. After I had interviewed them, my family history became much clearer to me.
The genogram of my paternal side of the family, starts with my great, great, great grandfather, Benedicto Pereira, who had been a slave in Brazil. Around 1860 Benedicto became a free man and immigrated to Lagos, Nigeria to settle and raise a family. He had 17 children, one of which was Victoria, my great grandmother. Victoria married a man with the last name Quimbra and gave birth to five daughters, the youngest of which was my grandmother Hilaria Pereira. Hilaria married Mr. Fabiyi (first name unknown), when she was about 15 years old. Papa Fabiyi as he was also called was abusive and married to or had multiple concubines, and approximately 20 or more children. Shortly after my father, Akinyele Fabiyi, was born, Hilaria returned to her family compound to live. My father lived with both of his parents at different points in his life. He had a close relationship with the three of his sibling’s on Papa Fabiyi’s side, his brothers Tunji, Femi, and a younger sister, Idowu. My grandmother also had another son, about 12 years after my father was born, Ade. My father and Ade were very close despite the age difference.
Family can be a many of things in your life. They can be the family you were born into. They could be some of your closest friends that you know consider your family. So they don’t have to be your blood or kin. They can be your friends as well. But if you have one or the other or are lucky and have both. They can be a major factor or influence on your life. From the person you marry to the job you take. From the places you go and see and to the people you meet in between. The people you consider family will always be there and influence those factors and many more. As much as you portray yourself as independent they will always act as a life line on your life. So family can help you in your personal life, teach you things as a person, be with
I will begin with my great grandparents on my mother’s side. The Ritzke family. The name Ritzke is in itself quite unique. From Austria, Ritzke
I want to begin with my dad’s side of the family as we know a little more about where we came from. From what we know, his relatives lived in Ireland until the time of the great Irish Potato Famine. Once they arrived in America my dad’s relatives settled down South, but somewhere down the line, someone moved North. This brings me to my Great Grandma Mary. She and her husband lived near Coldwater Michigan where they settled and had my Grandma Lela and her brothers, Lee Combs, Lewis Combs and her one sister that
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