Ziegelbein  Comments!

Lisa Ziegelbein, "My husband's grandfather was Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegelbein, who was born on 07/20/1894. He went by the name Charles, which I guess was the Americanized version of Karl. He is the son of Carl who is referenced on your website, although my records show Carl spelled with a 'K'. Go figure. I know it's the same person! Anyway, his mother was Anna (Deke) Ziegelbein, and he was brother to Henry, Marie, Alvin, Bertha, John, and Fredrich. As a side note, Karl and Henry married sisters: Karl married Louise Krause, Henry married Dela Krause.

Karl had five children: Irma Louise Ziegelbein Gerrish was born 09/16/19 and currently lives in Sedalia, Missouri. Mildred Anna Ziegelbein Wheeler was born 01/12/27 and currently lives in Warrensburg, Missouri. Edgar Charles Ziegelbein was born 10/30/30 and died 07/28/85. Edgar had a twin, Elsie Rosina, who died as an infant in January 1931. The fifth was a stillborn child, and I don't have any information about the dates of birth/death or sex of the baby.

Edgar married Nancy Knowles 06/14/58, and together they had three children: Chuck (Raymond Charles), Rick (Richard Dale), and Pat (Patrick Michael). Nancy died 03/20/92.

Chuck is married to his second wife, Carla, and they live north of Columbia, Missouri near Hallsville. They have no children together. However, Chuck and his first wife, Alicia, had three boys: Zachary, Jared, and Austin.

Rick is married to Lisa (me!), and we live in Blue Springs, Missouri. We have a son, Derek William, and a daughter, Alyssa Diane.

Pat is married to Amy, and they live in Boonville, Missouri. They have one son, Lucas Michael.

And with all that information, it boils down to one question: if your grandfather and my husband's grandfather were brothers, what does that make you and Rick? I believe it makes you second cousins, but I'm not positive. I'm just getting into genealogy, and it's so wonderful to discover how many Ziegelbein descendants are out there!"

John Fischer, "Hi, Paul. I've moved due to a job change/transfer. Here's an update to our e-mail address and city/state information to post on the Ziegelbein website. Our new e-mail address is: fischer21@watchtv.net and we live in New Knoxville, Ohio, now, instead of Byron, Illinois. We're working back at The Way International headquarters where I'm overseeing the PC-related computer work. (The other side of the IT department is an IBM AS/400 system. Evelyn works on that system as a programmer.) I'm attaching a copy of our e-Holiday card so you can see what we look like these days. Carolyn is a senior in Architecture at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She plans to work on a Master's degree program after graduation next May. John III is a PFC in the US Marine Corps, currently stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC. He's in radio/electronics attached to an artillery unit. He's having a lot of fun learning to drive military Hummers, shoot howitzers, and work with amphibious landing equipment like hovercrafts. If there is any other information that needs to be updated for the Web site, please let me know. Have a great holiday season! John"

Pam Niermann Goebel, "Paul, feel free to use our information on your website.  It'll be fun to keep in touch this way.  Thanks for all your hard work at keeping the information going for our family!"

Joyce Ziegelbein Wood, "I live in Las Vegas, NV, and my email address is ziggywhat@aol.com. The family tree info is fantastic!! Very interesting stuff!!! Thanks for sharing and for all your hard work."

Deb Niermann, " Hi Paul, I have a whole photo album of pictures that I reproduced from Grandma's pile of old photos. I'll go through them and tell you what I have, but it's pretty cool. I know I have Lydia as a teenager in a class photo, and a photo when they were dating. I also reproduced the wedding photo. It's in black and white and doesn't have the sepia coloring but the picture is clearer, if you're interested. You can post my email address on the website. Both sites look great. You've been busy."

Becky Webster, "The home page looks very nice... This is wonderful meeting more of my family."

Ruth Schwarz Sprengeler, "Wow!  I love this family history stuff!! ... Keep in touch; we'll send you whatever we can.  Better yet, maybe we can meet some day!"

David Niermann, "I checked out the von Fange website with the newsletters and everything, that is really something.  Do you maintain that one too?  It must be a lot of work.  I've talked to others in my family and we are all appreciative of the Ziegelbein site.  If there's anything I can do to help let me know."

John Fischer, "Thanks for the info on the Web site you're putting together for the Ziegelbeins.  This looks like a fun project! ... Thanks for doing this!

Beth Niermann, "This website is pretty fun, I noticed that you have a lot of holes when it comes to family photos. My sister Debbie did a lot of photo research when grandma was still living and she has an entire family photo album. I thought you might like to know this information and see if you can get her to scan them in for you. Blessings on the endeavor, Your cuz, Beth Niermann"

Kim Portell (girlfriend of Chris Ziegelbein), "Paul - I didn't know if you received my message from this weekend about who I was -- I told Wilmer "Wimpy" & Chris about your website & they sounded very interested in any information you have on the Ziegelbeins -- if you need any information on the family still living in Concordia I'm sure they would like to help.  Please let me know. Thanks! Kim

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