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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That is a neat challenge! Makes me want to look at mine. We have very similar backgrounds. At least half my Great grandparents were born in German and moved to Illinois too! (Effingham, IL)
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