This tree was uploaded in 2010, but I started it a few years earlier using the "Legacy 7" software.  Additions and corrections have been added on a nearly constant basis.

My Altman ancestors arrived in Philadelphia in Sept. 1742 on the ship Phoenix.  They came from the area of Herbitzheim in the Alsace-Lorrain region of what is now France.  If you know your history, you know that region was once German territory.  My earliest ancestor to immigrate was George Soule (on my mother's Ketchum side), who was an indentured servant on the Mayflower and a signer of the Mayflower Compact.

My Zeitz ancestors immigrated shortly after the Civil War, coming from the Dresden area of Germany and also from Prussia.  I've also included a Zeitz branch which stayed in Germany.  I've not been able to prove a connection, yet, but they come from the same area as "my" Zeitz ancestors and I feel very strongly that there's a familial connection.  For that branch, I'm deeply indebted to "cousin" Gerda Zeitz in Bonn, Germany.  She's done much research in various churches in an attempt to confirm a connection.  We're sure one is there...we just haven't been able to find it.

This tree is also about the family of my wife, Nancy O'Neal/Altman and her maternal line of Lewis ancestors.  Thanks to the decades-long work of one of her uncles, we have much information on her O'Neal ancestors.  The Lewis's are another matter.  We're still trying to batter through a brick wall surrounding information on any of "her" Lewis's beyond her G-Grandfather.  But we're not giving up.   Isn't genealogy fun?

Enjoy your trip through the site and, if you have any corrections or additions please email me at jondalar88@yahoo.com  or leave a comment in the Guest Book.