Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: My "Heritage Pie" Chart

Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge for today is to list all 16 great-great grandparents, their dates and places of birth, death and marriage, then make a pie chart of the birthplaces.  I like this one because it also gives me a chance to see if that part of my Ahnetafel on this blog needs updating:

As I keep telling everyone, I'm more German than anything else, because ancestors of my USA great-great-grandparents also came from Germany.  Here's what I know about my great-great grandparents - I made a couple assumptions about birthplaces:

    16. Jacob (Jakob?) Pape  was born before 1830 in Germany. He married Elisabeth Gierse on 18 Aug 1846 in Boedefeld, Westphalia, Germany.

    17. Elisabeth Gierse  was born before 1830 in Germany.

    18. Joseph Cramer  was born in Germany. He married Catharina Becker.

    19. Catharina Becker was probably born in Germany.

    20. Carl Massmann  was born on 22 May 1847 in Hanover, Germany. He died on 7 Feb 1929 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA. He was buried in February 1929 in Skokie, Cook County, Illinois, USA. He married Minna Freicke on 4 January 1870 in Hanover, Germany.

    21. Minna Freicke  was born on 10 February 1847 in Germany. She died on 14 March 1917 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA.

    22. Frederick Dienes  was born in August 1828 in Germany. He died on 25 March 1896 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. He married Regina Matheis on 11 September 1861 in Sangamon County, Illinois, USA.

    23. Regina Matheis  was born on 17 August 1837 in Bavaria, Germany. She died on 4 May 1916 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA.

    24. J. Guokas  was born before 1852, probably in Lithuania. He married Marie Sukytes.

    25. Marie Sukytes  was born before 1852, probably in Lithuania.

    26. ? Bonewitz/Boenewitch/Bovits/Banavich, probably born in Lithuania.

    27. unknown, probably born in Lithuania.

    28. Joseph William Wolfe  was born on 14 January 1845 in East Pike Run Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 30 October 1918 in Monongahela, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. He married Margaret Melzen? Melzina? (Maggie) Carroll on 31 October 1868.

    29. Margaret Melzen? Melzina? (Maggie) Carroll  was born on 12 November 1846 in Pennsylvania, USA. She died on 3 December 1911 in Monongahela, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.

    30. Levi Marion Shelton  was born on 28 January 1863 in Winn Parish, Louisiana, USA. He died on 27 May 1941 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA.  He married Sara(h) Ann [Sarianne?] Spikes on 30 December 1884.

    31. Sara(h) Ann [Sarianne?] Spikes  was born on 28 September 1871 in Sardis, Winn Parish, Louisiana, USA. She died on 10 April 1935 in Montgomery, Grant Parish, Louisiana, USA. 

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