Family Trees

 

During my initial conversation with the Salvage store owner, she mentioned a hand drawn family tree which excited me greatly. I have poured a lot of time and effort into tracking down Kuck descendants over the years in hopes of finding pictures to replace the ones likely lost by my great grandparents in the missing semi incident. After maybe 25 years of searching, I found what I was after in a salvage shop of all places but I am not complaining. Another reason for my excitement is that despite all this research, one branch on this side of my family tree remains the shortest one on my entire tree. I have mentioned it many times on here but my third great grandmother, Mary Meyer Kuck, John Kuck's first wife, died young along with five of her children of diphtheria and left very few records behind, so few, I have never been able to identify who her parents were. My hope was that perhaps this hand drawn family tree might identify her parents. 

Above is the very hand drawn family tree that caused all my excitement but sadly, it didn't solve any questions or really tell me much new information, at least along my branch of the family tree. It did open up a mystery that likely will cause me to do a lot more research along another branch. The tree lists John Kuck's father Henry Kuck but not his wife Anna which I find a bit odd since she outlived him by over a decade. It also lists five of Henry's children that came over to the United States after the death of their parents. Dietrick, John, Anna and Frederick I knew about and have researched much over the years but Henry was a new one for me. I had Henry's name but according to a German genealogist years ago, he was listed as having died in 1843. But the writing on the family tree clearly states that all the children came to the United States and that Henry died in the Civil War. This is news to me and something I'll have to look into.

Other things of note is that it shows my great grandfather Victor though not his wife Grace whom he married shortly after his return from World War I. It also mentioned the hoarder's name in whose house this very family tree was found and came to be now in my possession. Also, the paper that the family tree was drawn on was rolled into a tight roll. In order to flatten it, I had to use some industrial type magnets to hold the parchment against the back of a cookie sheet in order to photograph it since it is much too big for a scanner.

Below is another hand drawn family tree though of Adam Brandau, the father of John Kuck's second wife Elizabeth. Since they aren't blood relation to me, I have not put forth a lot of effort into researching it but I do have descendants I've been in contact with whom I will send it too knowing it will be much appreciated.