Geiszler Genealogy

When I think of mothers on my family tree, Lura Smith tops the list of those I look forward to meeting in the afterlife. She is the adopted mother of my Grannie,  Louise Eleanor Long .  Grannie adored Lura. Lura was married to Harry Howard Long (1883-1937). The couple married in Columbus, Ohio on Jun 19, 1907. They were unable to have children and finally adopted their first child in 1916. In May 1920, a baby girl was born in Columbus, Ohio to an unwed mother. The mother died of preeclampsia. This baby girl would become my grandmother. Upon her mother's death, Baby Anderson became a ward of the State of Ohio Welfare Department. She had a caseworker, Ethel Huffman Ackerman, who wanted to place Baby Anderson in the home of Harry Long. The caseworker was a friend and classmate (at Ohio State) of Harry's sister Elizabeth Long. As Elizabeth retells the story, Ethel received Baby Anderson's birth mother's history and felt that Harry and Lura were just the parent...

Previously, I shared in a post " How Many Ways Can You Spell Pusecker? " twelve ways this name has been spelled and now I have another variation. Let's add  Boesecker to the list. The Pusecker family traveled with my 2nd great-grandmother Caroline Mack Geis ßler Billmann to America together from Gillersheim, Hannover, Niedersachsen (Germany). Caroline's brother married a Pusecker daughter and joined the families by marriage.   So, this record for Charles Boesecker, is believed to be Karl Pusecker (1808-1886), the elder Pusecker in the immigrant family. Declaration of Intention. Court of Common Pleas, Franklin County Ohio. The State of Ohio, Franklin County, SS Be it remembered that on the  9th day of August  of the year eighteen hundred and  fifty-six , PERSONALLY APPEARED before me ALBERT B BUTTLES, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County and State,   Charles Boesecker  an Alien, a native of  Han...

Have you revisited the research trips you took and the things you left undone? Four years ago, I took a trip to Columbus, Ohio to visit cemeteries, especially Green Lawn Cemetery. Green Lawn Cemetery is massive and is said to be the fifth-largest in Ohio. At the time, was on the hunt for a collateral relative in Selection L. At the time, I couldn't find him. Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio Section L My mission was to find the gravesite of my great grandfather Andrew Nelson SMITH's second wife Marietta  Webb  SMITH's father. English immigrant William WEBB (1816-1905) is buried in Section L, while Andrew and Marietta Smith are buried in his ancestral plot in Section 35.  When I visited Green Lawn, I was visiting 50+ sites and photographing additional stones in hopes In the past, I would have had to pay  $3 per name for the information about individuals in buried in the cemetery. Regularly, I receive more informatio...

When growing up, I was insistent that you spelled my German last name with an S-Z. Any other variation was wrong and I believed that anyone who spelled it differently would not be my relative. I was alone in thinking spellings for last names was fixed. I only correct people when they pronounce my first and middle name incorrectly. Having learned from a variety of sources about the need to generate a list of name variations, I have attempted to create such a list for the Pueseckers who are members of my Maeck FAN Club. The individuals I'm researching settled in Franklin County, Ohio beginning in 1845. Few Pueseckers have left that area, which makes my research location narrow. Buckeser Busacker Buseker Pasenger Persaker Puesecker Pusaker Pusecke Pusecoier Puseker Pusicker Puesecker Having a running list of how the names appear in different validated records makes finding them a little easier in subsequent research. I entered the last name into the  1890 Vetera...

Going from an index to an original source often takes a little detective work and a lot of patience. And sometimes, it takes learning the right combination of search terms for the record to finally float to the surface. That's the case for Ludwig Puescker son of Karl Puesecker who was a traveling companion to my 3rd great-grandmother Caroline Mack Geiszler Billman. I had tracked Ludwig, who became Louis in many records in Franklin County, Ohio, until the 1880 US Census. Then, I discovered a death date of 14 May 1905  in the  Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997 death index collection on FamilySearch.  The index was derived from many sources, but I needed something more than a small clue to determine where his record was hiding. I turned once again to the  Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001 index image collection.  Searching for Puesecker and the death year and death county returned no results. Searching for Louis who died in 1905 in Franklin County, Oh...

While searching the  Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001  with the search terms "Martha" "Brown", "Franklin County, Ohio" for the death place and "1901" for the death year, I got a hit. I wanted to start doing a genealogy happy dance saying I finally found her death record. But did I? Can I really prove it? How did I know to search for Martha Brown in Franklin County, Ohio for a death in 1901 and a possible maiden name of Gordon? Well, much of the information comes from these two Bible entries kept by her daughter-in-law Emma Virginia Townsend. Emma Townsend Brown Bible, recording her in-law's births Emma Townsend Brown Bible, recording the deaths of her in-laws These bits of information led me to census records, a marriage record, records for children, and records for who I believe are Martha's parents "Charles Gordon and Jane Fickle". So, with that information I went looking for Martha's elusive death r...

Researching collateral lines is important. My great+ aunt Lizzie Greener is the daughter of my grandfather Joseph Geißler whom I have written about many times. Her husband was Conrad Greener b 1853 d 1905. I had hoped to find a death record for him online to support the grave markers that I have found for him. So far, using Ancestry and FamilySearch, I haven't found a death record for Conrad, Mary Elizabeth's husband, but rather for her father-in-law Conrad the senior. Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6JL-NPL : accessed 30 March 2016), Conrad Grener, 04 Sep 1899; citing Death, Prairie, Franklin, Ohio, United States, source ID v 4 p 198, County courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 285,207. The death record for Conrad with Mary Elizabeth Geißler shares a tombstone is still elusive. I have tried various name combinations for Conrad and I keep coming up empty. The collection implies...