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Issue #9, December 2002

Editors Notes:

We wish for all a very joyous holiday season. May you and yours cherish these moments for this holiday season will not happen again. May we be thankful for all that we are and for all that we have been. May the Lord watch over our family, our relatives and friends, and spare our brothers and sisters in this worldly and turbulent world we live in. May we come to see that we are not here to gather but to give and to inspire.

Some have expressed surprise that announcements have not been made in the newsletter while others expressed that the pictures seem to be centered around a small number of families. Yes, I agree, but I am only able to pass information on to you as I receive it. Regarding pictures, I am afraid the same is also true there. I can only share with you that which I have or that which someone has shared with me.

You may have noticed over these many newsletters that in each one a certain family line will be highlighted and in the next it will be another. The reason for this is twofold, first is information availability and second is research effort. I have found that I am unable to fully concentrate on multiple family lines at the same time. So each year one family line is addresses. Last year it was Katharina Appolonia Schulteis-Peas. This year it was the Siegl family. You just can't do everything at once. At first I thought I could but I was also a bit naive as sometimes expectations and reality are not necessarily aligned.

The majority of my time this year was spend in web site generation and historical research.

Publication:

The family newsletter is distributed annually in December. It can now be obtained via the Internet at- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~djschulteis/newsletter/

Those who do not have Internet access will be mailed a copy. Please contact me at the below address to be put on the announcement/distribution list. If you have an email address and did not receive the announcement, please let me know. If it is not obvious, I owuld ;refer to distribute the newsletter via email.

Distribution: 311 families; email 105 postal 206

Donald Joseph Schulteis
5707 Still Forest Drive
Dallas, Texas 75252-4916
contact me

Genealogy:

Have taken what I consider to be a giant step forward by creating a web site and placing on it the history of the family, St. Boniface Parish, St. Mary Parish, the Township of Germantown and the Township of Richfield. For both St. Boniface in Germantown and St. Mary in Richfield you will find a list of interments in their respective cemeteries. For the Township of Germantown, you will find interments for all the cemeteries in the township.

The web site identifies ancestors of the Schulteis, Siegl/Siegel, Wolf, and Ott families through 1920. Since this information is being shared with the world, information is limited to birth, marriage, death, and burial events. The site's address is:

  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~djschulteis/index.htm

  The book, A History of St. Boniface, will be published in 2003. It will have photos, exhibits and many anecdotes which are all missing from the web version. The book is presently being proofed.

  Regarding Germantown and Richfield, if you should have pictures of the area or historical information which you would like to share, this would be much appreciated.

  Starting this year the newsletter is available via the Internet. Each year the number of copies grew when two years ago it reached 285 families. Last year because of the copy cost to get to you good pictures, especially that of Herman and Gertrude, I had to reduce the distribution to 100. I did not like to do this but I had no choice. Therefore the push to get a web presence. Am also making last year's newsletter available online for those who did not receive it. Distribution this year is to 311 families.

  In order not to have the newsletter generally available to the world at large, my web site does not identify that a newsletter exists. To access the newsletter, you will need to manually identify it and then bookmark it. After that you can use your bookmark to get to it. The newsletter's web address is-

  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~djschulteis/newsletter/

  Will continue to mail out newsletters but only to those who do not have a web presence. For the rest of you I will announce the availability of the newsletter via email each December. If you received a mailing and have Internet access, would appreciated if you would let me know. Drop me an email. Thank you.

  The hard copy version of the newsletter and the internet version will be pretty much identical. The internet version though may contain more photographs and be more up to date. Come back and check later. As information about the year 2002 is uncovered, it will be added.

  Schulteis Family:

  Birth: Carson Allen Williams, son of Allen and Angela (Porubcan) Williams, was born 8 January 2002 in Cologne, Minnesota.

  Birth: Jack Garret Vennstra, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Schulteis) Vennstra, was born 25 March 2002 in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

  Birth: Gabriel George Schulteis, son of Geoffrey George and Brandy Lynn (Yates) Schulteis, was born 28 March 2002 in La Jolla, California.

  Birth: Erika Lynn Wilcox, daughter of Kevin and Angela Wilcox, was born 14 September 2002 in Mequon, Wisconsin.

  Birth: Leah Lynn Hess, daughter of Chris and Mandy (Wagner) Hess, was born on 12 September 2002 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

  Birth: Tyler Christopher Hess, son of Chris and Mandy (Wagner) Hess, was born on 12 September 2002 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

  Birth: Mason Robert Schulteis, son of Martin and Shelly (Hug) Schulteis, was born 3 November 2002 in West Bend, Wisconsin.

  Birth: Morgan Montgomery Sueflow, daughter of Todd and Jennifer (Schulteis) Sueflow, on 17 November 2002. Morgan was home delivered by her father in West Bend, Wisconsin.

  Birth: Ella Marie Binfet, son of Gregory Mark and Shelly Binfet, was born on 2 December 2002.

  Birth: Paige Elizabeth Pfeifer, daughter of Timothy and Kimberly (Seyfert) Pfeifer, was born on 26 November 2002.

  Marriage: Ronald Scott Miller, son of Ronald and Linda (Schulteis) Miller, to Kelli Rae Beyer-Komp, daughter of Ronald and Donna (Harder) Beyer, on 23 December 2001 in Waupaca, Wisconsin.

  Death: Richard Albert Held on 11 April 2002. He was the husband of Margaret Anna Schulteis and the father of Ronald, Richard (Lavonne), Suzanne (Donald) Kern, and Jack (Regan). Richard was 81 years.

  Death: Albert Theodore Schulteis on 23 August 2002. He was the husband of Alice Mabel Kohl and the father of Albert (Kathleen), Doreen (Joseph), Gary (Sharon), Daniel (Linda), and Kristine (Roman). Albert was 75 years.

  Death: John Peter Odenbrett on 15 November, 2002 in Humboldt, IA. He was preceded in death by his wife Rosalie Marie Gallo. John is survived by stepsons Vincent (Diana), Salavatore Gallo, daughter Mary Ann (Randal) Miller, and son John Peter. John was 93 years.

  Siegl Family:

  I am pleased to report making contact with two of our cousins in Germany, Karl Siegl in Bad Brueckenau and Willibald Dippl in Roding. Karl is the son of grandfather's youngest brother Johann while Willibald is the grandson of his older brother Alois.

  Karl's son Norbert has replied identifying his father of 90 years was recently placed in a nursing home and provided background information on his father.

  Willibald replied correcting my lineage errors for his family and provided background information on each of our grandaunts and granduncles and included in this correspondence were pictures. The picture on the right is of our 2rd great-grandfather Alois (1821-1901). Wonderful pictures!

  Recently discovered our grandfather Joseph John Siegl emigrated from Vollmau, Bohemia at age 15 leaving the Port of Bremen on 20 September 1902 as the 5th registered passenger, traveling alone on the ship Frederick der Grosse. He arrived at the Port of New York on 1 October 1902. Joseph paid his own passage, had a ticket to Milwaukee and over $30.00 in money in his pocket. This information was obtained from the ship manifest, Norddentscher Lloyd steamship company of Bremen.

  Birth: Justin Jon Koboski, son of Jason Jon and Amy Jo (Siegl) Koboski, was born 8 May 2002 in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

  Marriage: Louise Theodosia Voelker, daughter of Joseph and Theresa (Martin) Siegl, to Ray Dalen on 25 May 2002 in Durango, Colorado.

  The picture on the left is of our grandaunts and granduncles. From left to right, Alois, Margareta, Franz, Anthony, Johann, Katharina, and Grandfather (Joseph). It was taken about 1912.

  The picture on the right is of our great-grandparent's family, Anton and Margareta. From left to right, Franz, Katharina, Margareta, Maria, great-grandmother, grandfather Joseph on her lap, great-grandfather, Karl, and Alois. Picture was taken about 1888. Great-grandmother died in 1890. Grandfather's younger brother Johann is not on the picture as he was born in 1889. Both pictures were shared by Willibald Dippl. I can't thank him enough.

  Ott Family:

  Death: Robert Al Zoller died 6 April 2002 at the age 73 in California where the family resided. He is survived by his wife Charlene and four daughters Kathleen (Edweard) Duffy, Linda (Robert) Aldera, Terry (David) Cross, and Barbara (Christian) Riegel.

  Death: Mary Charlene (Nugent) Zoller died on 7 May 2002 at the age of 72. She was the wife of Robert Zoller who had died one month earlier. For family details, see Robert above.

  Death: Dr. Ralph Freiburger died on 8 August 2002 at the age of 86. He is survived by his wife Jeannette Catherine Ott and daughter Jayne (Dr. Jerome) Theis and James (Christine).

  Death: Leonard Kastner died on 2 December 2002 at the age 84. He is survived by his wife Margaret Mary Trunde, and children Paul (Nancy), John (Judy), Thomas (Deborah), and Ruth (Gene) Sommers.

  St. Boniface Parish:

  The full history of the parish is now available on my web site at

  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~djschulteis/

  Mystery Picture:

  Who Are We? - Recognize Church? - Year?
  Barbara Fellenz and son Anthony; 1948

  Challenge:

  In this issue, I am hoping you can help to identify family members who attended the Herman and Gertrude Schulteis family reunion which took place in 1922 or 1923. 1922 was the year they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. You might compare your pictures of these individuals which may have been taken about this time as this could help in your identification. Anyone know the name of the dog and who he may belong to?

  Following can be seen who were there and who we have identified.

  Picture shared with us by Loretta Julia (Schulteis) Fenske through Dolores (Schulteis) Stafford.

  There are some 16 family members remaining to be identified. Can you find these individuals?

  Hildegard (Noll) Schulteis (22 years), Clarence Joseph Schulteis (21),
  Antionette (Schneider) Schulteis (20), Willard Andrew Schulteis (18),
  Mary (Schulteis) McNally (48), Michael Patrick McNally (47), William Andrew Kaehny (48),
  Clarence Peter Schulteis (12), Frieda (Kaehny) Hauser (6), Lorraine (Kaehny) Luckas (4),
  Wilhelmina (Schulteis) Kaehny (40), Herman Raymond Wolf (17),
  Isabelle (Kaehny) Peterson-Mills (7),
  Theodore Joseph Schulteis (3), Aloysius Schulteis (22)

  01 | ?Mary McNally 7) | 22 | Jerome Engelbert Schulteis 2)3) | 43 | Helen Werner 7)
  02 | ?Mike McNally 7) | 23 | Allen Frank Schulteis 2)3) | 44 | Frank John Werner 1)
  03 | Loretta Julia Schulteis | 24 | Maria Cecelia Schulteis 3) | 45 | Antionette (Kaehny) Kieckhafer 1)
  04 | Josephine (Schulteis) Welton 1) | 25 | Allen Matthew Wolf 4) | 46 | Mamie (Schmidt) Schulteis 1)5)
  05 | John Lofy 7) | 26 | Clara (Hennes) Schulteis 4) | 47 | John Anton Kaehny 1)
  06 | Aloysius William Schulteis 1); Frank Schulteis 7) | 27 |  | 48 | Ferdinand George Wolf 4)
  07 | Marian (Schulteis) Neureuther 7) | 28 | ?Joseph Herman Schulteis 1) | 49 | Irene (Wolf) Marx 1)
  08 | Roman Martin Schulteis 5) | 29 | Agnes (Wolf) Schulteis 2)3) | 50 |
  09 | Norman Albert Schulteis 6) | 30 | William William Schulteis 2)3) | 51 | Priscilla (Guenther) Schulteis 1)5)
  10 | Sylvia Mary (Schulteis) Brahm 5) | 31 | Loraine (Schulteis) Heder 6) | 52 | Herman Joseph Schulteis Jr 1)
  11 | Emma Margaret Schulteis 6) | 32 | Marie (Kaehny) Hennes 1) | 53 | Gertrude (Schulteis) Kaehny 1)
  12 | Henry John Kaehny 1) | 33 | Isabelle (Schulteis) Lofy 4) | 54 |
  13 | John William Kaehny 1) | 34 | Peter Joseph Schulteis 2) | 55 | Josephine 8)
  14 | Elizabeth (Gass) Schulteis 1)6) | 35 |  | 56 | Dolores Mary Schulteis 8)
  15 | Erwin Dominic Kaehny 1) | 36 | Herman Joseph Schulteis Sr 2) | 57 | ?Helen (Schulteis) Werner
  16 |  | 37 | Gertrude (Doll) Schulteis 2) | 58 |
  17 | William Peter Schulteis 1) | 38 | Bernadine (Schulteis) Achenreiner 4) | 59 |
  18 | ?Helen Agnes Schulteis 1) | 39 | Albert William Schulteis 2)5) | 60 |
  19 | Dorothy Mary Schulteis 5) | 40 |  | 61 |
  20 | Elizabeth (Koenings) Schulteis 4) | 41 | Frank Joseph Schulteis 6) | 62 | Mary Ann (Goetz) Schmidt 2)
  21 | Oliver Peter Schulteis 2)3) | 42 | Sylvester Ferdinand Schulteis 4) |  |

  Identified by: 1) Frieda (Kaehny) Hauser 2) Donald Joseph Schulteis 3) Sister Helen Schulteis 4) Ralph Frank Schulteis 5) Priscilla Emma (Schulteis) Guenther 6) Russell Louis Heder 7) Margaret Held 8) Dolores Stafford