Hello! Welcome to The Anderson/Naffz Family genealogical website! 

If you have been invited to this website, please sign in. If you have not been formally invited to this website, you can not sign in, but if you wish to be invited, so that you can sign in, please ask me for an invitation (see my contact information below).

When you sign into this website, you will be able to view the whole family tree and see information  on everyone, both living and dead. If you can not or do not sign in, you will not be able to to see information on the living, for the sake of their privacy, but you will still be able to see information on the dead only.

In most cases, you were invited as Visitors or Guests of the website. You may view the contents of the website, but you can not make any changes in those contents on your own. If you wish to see changes made in the contents of the website, please follow the standard procedure: contact me (see my contact information below) with the requested changes and I will make them for you. “Changes” includes corrections, additions and deletions of information, textual or photographic.

In a few cases, members of the family are invited as Editors or Members of the website. They have permission to make changes in their own branch of the family tree. If you wish to become an Editor, please contact me with your request (see my contact information below). But if you are an Editor, for the sake of consistency, please observe and maintain the existing standards for content and style of entries. However, I do not recommend that you edit the website yourself. I recommend that everyone follow the standard procedure, just mentioned, for making changes in the website.

Please bookmark, write down or remember the address of our website, http://StuartAnderson.TribalPages.com, so that you can return here again at a later time. And please remember or write down the email address and password that you registered, so that you can enter  the website again later. But even if you do forget, help is available at Sign-In by clicking where it says “Password problems.. Click Here.”

If you are a family member, you may wish to begin by viewing your own entry in the family tree.  In the main menu, point to “View,” then, under it, click on “Family.” You will see more information about you and less information about your parents and your children. Click on their names to view their entries and see more information about them. In this way, you can navigate your way through the family tree. Later, you can investigate what the other menu items do. For example, under “View,” click on “Ancestors” to see all the forebears of the family member currently in view. Have fun exploring your family tree!

Perhaps you are dubious and are asking, “Why should I bother? What use is this to me?” In answer,  I say that I expect that you are curious and that you ask questions like “Where did I and my family come from?” and “Who are these people that are my relatives?” and “How am I related to them?”  Your TribalPages.com family genealogy is the place to look to find the answers to these questions. Possibly the most practical question that your family tree can answer for you is “When is his/her birthday?” and “How old is he/she?” and “When is their wedding anniversary?” And now that the website also includes photographs, you may be able to discover “What does/did he/she look like?”

As you explore the family tree, you will find that there is a lot of information here, information that has been gathered over the years by many genealogists. (See “Sources” under “Home.”)   While webelieve that this information is, on the whole, accurate and reliable, it is certainly not complete nor is it free of errors and it is constantly in need of updating as our family lives and grows. To increase the quantity and improve the quality of the information on the website, I ask your help. Whenever you find that information is missing or erroneous and that you can provide the  correct information, please contact me (see my contact information below). As webmaster of the site,  I will then edit and revise the contents of the website in order to integrate into it the information  that you provide. You do not need to make any changes to the website yourself. It is enough for you  to provide me with the information about any changes that are needed, for which I thank you.

Genealogy is the study of family histories, of the generations of a family, of how the people in a family tree are related by links of descent, ancestry and marriage. The essential information that is entered into a genealogy identifies each individual person and his/her primary relationships to other persons within a family. The identifying data are a person's names, dates and places. His/her names are first name, middle name(s), “nick name” (enclosed in quotes) and last name. A woman's last name is her maiden name, (almost always) the last name of her father, not of her husband. The dates and places are those of his/her birth, marriage(s), divorce(s) and death. A person is linked into a family by his/her primary relationships to other persons, his/her parents (father and mother), his/her spouses (husband or wife) and his/her children (sons or daughters). Each person in a genealogy is represented by a data sheet that contains fields (blanks, spaces, slots), into which each of these essential genealogical data is entered.

All of the other written information about a person, their optional biographical data, is entered into his/her TribalPages.com record in a single field, the Notes field. You could write anything you want into a person's Notes field, but the following is a list of the kinds of information most commonly entered into the Notes in our family genealogy. 
 ● education (years, degrees, schools, fields)
 ● military service (years, rank, branch, places)
 ● occupations (years, positions, firms, places)
 ● residences (years, places)
 ● avocations, accomplishments, awards, church memberships, etc. ● serious diseases, cause of death, burial place
 ● stories, especially if interesting and short
 If a person's genealogical record is like a human body, the essential genealogical data are its bare bones and provide its basic structure, while the optional biographical data are its flesh and give it substance, shape and appearance. Enter information in the Notes field to generate human interest, to make the the record live.

Another form of personal information that can be displayed on the website is digital photographs. For the earlier generations of the family, I have been going through old family photo albums, digitizing the best photographs and uploading them to the family website. For the present generations, I have been going through the digital photos that we have received by email or that you have posted on your FaceBook pages and putting them on the website. If you have digital photos of good quality and high interest, please send them to me to post on the website.

The name of this website, “The Anderson/Naffz Family” website, couples two old family names, one from my father's Swedish side and one from my mother's German side of the family. The “Anderson” name goes back to my father's father's father, Axel Andrew Andersson, who was born in 1842 in Sweden and died in 1924 in Minnesota. The “Naffz” name was the maiden name of my mother's mother's father's mother, Maria Barbara Emelia Naffz (Duerr), born in 1820 in Germany, died in 1890 in Wisconsin, but the Naffz name goes back as far as Balthasar Naffz, born in Germany in 1623. I have included the Naffz name in the family name and website title, because it is the most common name in this genealogy and also to honor the work of Alice Lachmund, a Naffz family member, who compiled around 1960 “The Naffz Family History,” which is the source of most of the information contained herein on the German side of the family. If I had my druthers, I would have called this “The Anderson/Westlund/Goetz/Duerr/Naffz Family,” and included all my grandparents' family names as well, but there was just not enough room in the TribalPages.com website title field.

I first got involved with genealogy in 1990, when I constructed a family tree of about 25 pages of text edited on my computer. To indicate relationships, I used numerical codes, which, I dare say, no one but me understood. To distribute this information, I had to print it all up and mail it out. Now with the internet and online genealogical websites, it's much easier to create, update and distribute a family tree. I picked TribalPages.com for my website, because its user interface is friendly and because the price is right, free to get started and fairly inexpensive to upgrade. I hope that you also find it easy to use, to view the information and, if you have permission, to edit it.

The Anderson/Naffz Family TribalPages.com website, which I started in the summer of 2010, now in the summer of 2012 includes records on more than 1900 people. I am now 71 years old and I hope to be able to continue to manage the website for some years to come. But I would like to see the website continue to link the family together, even after I can no longer manage it. As I stepped forward to become the genealogist for this generation of the family, I am looking for members of the family to take over from me as genealogists for the next generation and for the generation after that. In particular, I would like to invite two relatively young persons, one from the Maaske/Colle/Kelly branch and one from the Sayler/Jensen branch, to step forward and take over management of those branches of the family tree. If such a role would suit you, don't be shy, step forward and volunteer, the work is quite interesting and fun too, but it's not a temporary job, it's for life.

Welcoming your feedback and hoping for your help in maintaining and improving The Anderson-Naffz Family genealogical website, I am

	Stu 

Stuart Duerr Anderson, PhD 
Owner, Administrator, and Webmaster of The Anderson/Naffz Family website, stuartanderson.tribalpages.com stuander@gmail.com
 H: 980.272.6353; M: 607.220.3331 
 9604 Callison Court, Charlotte NC 28215-7547
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Some miscellaneous notes follow. 

For genealogical information, I am indebted to the following family members,  among others (see “Sources” under “Home”).
 ● Elizabeth Goetz Anderson (Duerr/Goetz/Anderson)
 ● Alice Lachmund (Naffz) 
 ● Ruth Johnson Mazak (Westlund)
 ● Cordelia Goodman Johnson (Johnson/Goodman/Swain/Collins) 
 ● Barbara Ann Goodman Vlaming (Vlaming/Goodman/Swain/Collins)  ● Loren Norton Anderson (Westlund/Anderson) 
 ● Robert Dean Krohn (Krohn)
 ● Barbara Anne Rockwell Krohn (Rockwell/Krohn) 
 ● Naomi Onsrud Rockwell (Onsrud/Rockwell) 
 ● James Arnold Christianson (Christianson)
 ● Toivola Kangus Rochovitz (Jensen). 
 ● Mike Anderson (Sayler/Jensen) 
 Thank you all.

This, The Anderson/Naffz Family genealogical website, StuartAnderson.TribalPages.com, is connected to the following other TribalPages.com genealogical websites.  ● The Klein Family genealogical website, EmilyKlein.TribalPages.com  ● The Jones/Turner Family genealogical website, JonesTurner.TribalPages.com  ● The Dixon/Conner Family genealogical website, SilverDollar.TribalPages.com

The names of countries are abbreviated as follows. 
 The default country is USA; if no country is indicated, it is USA. ● USA = United States of America 
 ● DEU = Deutschland, Germany 
 ● SWE = Sverige, Sweden 
 ● DNK = Danmark, Denmark 
 ● NOR = Norge, Norway 
 ● POL = Polska, Poland 
 ● RUS = Russia

A lengthy place name that occurs frequently, because it is the ancestral home of my mother's German side of the family, is abbreviated as follows. 
 ● Mainbernheim = Mainbernheim, Kitzingen, Bayern (Bavaria), Deutschland (Germany)

2011 July 07 Original version
2012 July 23 Major revision
2014 July 12 Minor changes
2021 January 25 Minor changes