Friday, March 23, 2007

Talkin' Bout My Genealogy


This handsome man is my great, great, great, great grandfather. (Now we know where we get that prominent Klopfenstein nose from.) He was a Mennonite farmer.
Here is the list of my ancestors from father to son and the year they were born.
  1. Michel 1544 My great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa
  2. Hans 1573
  3. Benedicht 1596
  4. Peter 1632
  5. Hans 1662
  6. Pierre 1703
  7. Jean 1729
  8. Michel 1762 pictured above
  9. Jean 1787
  10. Michael 1824
  11. Michael Jr. 1854
  12. Gary Sigmund 1896
  13. Gary 1924
  14. Thomas David 1964 Me!
  15. Benjamin Gary 1988

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