Hello, this is my family website.  I have a few of the main family names that I tracing back  listed in the title.  I hope you enjoy the site.  You can try the RELATIONSHIP link under PEOPLE  and see how you are related to another person in the tree or how we are related.  I also have a  closed group on Facebook where you can download my GEDCOM file.  You can request access to the  group, if we are friends on Facebook I normally add you to the group.  Below is some information on  the family names that I have been researching.



HEIMEL FAMILY
  
 The Heimel family came over from Germany in 1887.  They settled in South Saint Paul, MN. Frank  Heimel with his wife Kathrine Sturm and 4 children George, Frances, Frank and Joseph were  farmers.  It appears that Kathrine's mother's maiden name was Hoffman.  George later married  Caroline Elizabeth Marthaler, daughter of Johann Jakob Marthaler and Regina Keller.  Land that  Caroline Elizabeth Marthaler owned with her husband is now where the West Saint Paul Sports Center  is located on the corner of Wentworth and Oakdale.
  
  
  
 KELLER FAMILY
  
 The Keller family came from Leimersheim, Germany.  Johan Jakob Keller came over with his family  and several of his siblings and mother in 1849 to settle in St. Paul, MN.  A few of his siblings  came over in 1852.  I have the line traced back to 1663 which is as far back as the records go.  
 Some of the notable achievements are Cyril and Louis Keller invented the skid steer used in  Bobcats.  Their uncle Anton Melvin Christianson, who was married to Elizabeth Keller, helped bring  their idea to market.  Hannah Christianson is working on being a musician and I have some of her  work featured at http://www.facebook.com/pages/​MyFamilycom- HeimelMarthalerKellerGrantZaspel/331414246872859
  
 As I have been researching the branches I find that there is a lot of connection between the  Keller family and the Lehman, Bullis, Koziol and Stumpf families.

MARTHALER FAMILY
  
 The Marthaler family also came from Leimersheim, Germany.  Johann Jakob Marthaler traveled over  on the same ship as Johann Jakob Keller.  He later married Johann Jakob Kellers younger sister  Regina Keller.  Initially they settled in the Chicago, IL area in Naperville and later moved to  West 
 Saint Paul, MN.  Several family members served on the city counsel and there weren't many years  that 
 a Marthaler was not a member.  Part of their original farm is where the West Saint Paul Sports  Center is located on the corner of Wentworth and Oakdale.  Their is also a street named after them  and a park that sits across from the City Hall.
  
 The Marthaler line traces back to Zurich, Switzerland with a Marteler born about 1550.  Other  variations of the name tracing back to this family are Martheller, Marthalen, Mayrthaler and  Mayerthaler.
  
  
  
 GRANT FAMILY 
  
 John J Grant came from the town of Abbeyleix in Laois County, Ireland in 1880.  He came through  Kennebunkport, ME which wasn't a normal port for immigrants since it was mainly a shipping port.   He married Jane Frances Hinds who had come through Kennebunkport as well.  She came from  Maryborough, Ireland which is now Portloaise.  They were married at the St. Paul Cathedral which  in 1883 was located downtown Saint Paul.
  
 I have not been able to trace the Ancestry further back on the Irish line but with clan names you  can find clan histories.  The Grant Clan was originally settled in Scotland near Lake Ness.  They  have proven an old story about Viking blood in the clan.  The Vikings can trace their ancestry to  another group of people called te "Iron People" or Aes who trace their roots back to the  thracians, also known as Trojans.  They lived in the town of troy until it's fall.  The Trojans can  trace themselves back to Japheth the 7th son of Noah. http://www.osterholm.info/swedes.html,  http://www.osterholm.info/thracian.html.
  
  
  
 ZASPEL FAMILY
  
 I know very little about this line.  Ferdinand John Zaspel and his wife Carolina Louisa Schlomka  and their 7 children, Maria Louisa, Augusta Paulina, Rudolph F, Emma, Elizabeth, Julius Paul and  Otto Carl Augustus came to the US from Frankfurt an Der Oder, in Germany.  Initially they settled  in New York and later moved to Minnesota.
  
 Augusta Paulina Zaspel married Gottfried Keller who was one of Johann Jakob Keller's sons.  They  had several children Rose Louisa, Otto John, Emma H, Anna Regina, Augusta Marie, Elizabeth,  Caroline, Christina Marie, Henry F, Godfried Francis (Godfrey) and Edward Keller.  After Augusta  passed away Gottfried went to stay with some of his children out in Sherwood, North Dakota where  he died after drinking formaldehyde that he thought was root beer and was brought back to be buried  by his wife at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Inver Grove Heights, MN His son Godfried and his  descendants are also buried there.
  
 The Majority of the other Zaspels are buried in Oakland Cemetery in Saint Paul, MN.  
  
  
 McEVOY, HINDS and QUIGLEY FAMILIES
  
 Some of my other Irish ancestry names are McEvoy, who were one of the 7 original families to found  Marysbourough (Portloaise), Hinds who seem to have migrated to all parts of the world and have a  square named after them in Portloaise and don't know much about the Quigley.  Most likely the  McEvoys who lived in Abby Leix probably worked making the carpets used in the Titanic.  Seems the  carpet making industry in Abby Leix kind of went down with the ship.  
  
  
 HEINTZ, LIEBEL, SCHWAB, GRIESER, WOLF, WOLFF, LOESCH, GEIGER, SCHAAF, WUENSCHEL, SCHLINDWEIN and  BAEHR FAMILIES 
  
 These are some of the other more common names that are mixed in with the Keller and Marthaler in  the Leimersheim, Germany area.  If you trace your ancestry back to any of these names in  Leimersheim, Germany or one of the nearby towns there is a good chance we could be distant cousins.  
  
  
 SCHLOMKA and SCHLIEWENZ FAMILIES
  
 These names also come from the Frankfurt on Order region.  I don't have much but if anyone can  connect to a Carolina Louisa Zaspel (Schlomka) born 10 Aug 1815 then we could possibly be cousins.

STURM or STORM FAMILY 
  
 My great great grandmother's maiden name, she married a Heimel.  I found records with the last name  spelled both ways but I believe Sturm is the correct spelling.  All I know is that she came from  Germany with her husband and children.  I have no idea where she came from in Germany same as the  rest of the Heimel's.

CHAPDELAINE, DESLAURIERS, LEMAY, AUGE, BEAUDETTE and CHRISTIAN

Only a few people with these last names are related to me but they seem to connect a number of my  branches together and create situations were some people are related to a group of relatives that  I am but otherwise wouldn't share them in common if not for these groups intermingling.

PODGORSKI

I haven't done much other then trace out all the ones I know in Minnesota but Paul (Pawal)  Podgorksi was the first one to come over from Muzylowice.  It was part of Glacia which was the  Austrian portion of Poland when Poland wasn't on the European map.  The town currently is just  over the border from Poland in the Ukraine.  Paul arrived on 26 Oct 1904 in New York and can be  found in the Ellis Island records.

ZAJAC

I have the Zajac line traced back to Rabka, Rabka-Zdrój, Nowy Targ, Malopolskie, Poland.  Very  little is known about my Great Grandmother but I have some information on her brothers.

BARR

Ignacy Bär came over in 1884 with his father and mother.  He is listed in the records as Nickolas  Barr or in church records as Nicholas Baar.  I have that he came from Tuchola, Tuchola, Kuyavian- Pomeranian, Poland.  According to a Census record it lists that his mother had 9 children but  other than Nick I have no idea who any of them are.

SKORCZEWSKI

I have that Frank and his wife Paulina came over in 1879 from Waldowo, Poland.  Having spoken with  another relative learned that their are two Waldowo and the one on the western boarder of Poland  is where the Skorczewski family came from.  There are also several Skorczewski's in Lincoln County  that are related to the ones in Ramsey County I have connected them thanks to Jamie Schubert.

KRAFT, TRZEBIATOWSKI (TOSKEY), HACKL, NOWICKI, SIKORSKI, ROZMIAREK (ROSEMARK), ETTEN, SOBKOWIAK  (SPACE), SWANSON, WILCZYK, NOVAK, HOLLY

These are some of the other names associated with the Barr and Skorczewski children in the Saint  Paul, Minnesota area.

ANDERT, WEINERS, SHEETZ, NICHOLAS, STRUSINSKI, NEWPOWER

These are some of the other names associated with the Podgorski and Zajac Children in the Saint  Paul, Minnesota area.