Family History Research
Repinski Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Branch #1: Repinski/ Dietz/Pope/ Converse/ Richardson/ Reed
Branch #2: Repinski/ Dietz/ Pope/Smith/ Norton/Cheney/Atkinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson-4th & 6th Cousin
More research on my moms New England line about a year ago gave me a new cousin.
Meet our 4th cousin as well as our 6th cousin through two different lines (that I have researched).
We are also connected to him in a few other ways but I haven’t had time to delve into those lines.
His pedigree on Famouskin.com (see link below) shows quite a few mutual ancestral and collateral relationships including our 11th great grandmother Elizabeth Tilley from the Mayflower, a few Royals and more.
Famous Kin of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, January 01, 2019
Monday, December 24, 2018
Roger Williams-10th Great Grandfather
Family History & Research
Repinski Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Branches:
(1of 2): Repinski-Dietz-Brown-Smith-Sayles-Williams
(2 of 2): Repinski-Dietz-Brown-Smith-Waterman-Williams
Roger Williams
Founder of Rhode Island
10th great grandfather
I recently discovered that the man who founded the state of Rhode Island is one of my many ancestral great grandfathers while researching one of my family tree branches.
Repinski Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Branches:
(1of 2): Repinski-Dietz-Brown-Smith-Sayles-Williams
(2 of 2): Repinski-Dietz-Brown-Smith-Waterman-Williams
Roger Williams
Founder of Rhode Island
10th great grandfather
I recently discovered that the man who founded the state of Rhode Island is one of my many ancestral great grandfathers while researching one of my family tree branches.
As I was doing my research, I discovered a family bible entry from a distant cousin that mapped out the pedigree from Roger to both of my 5th Great Grandparents. There were quite a few ancestors with the Smith surname around that era and the Bible entry explained how they were all related and who their spouses were. It is through this bible entry that I was able to trace back to Roger.
I am proud to be a 10th great grandson among many of his descendants.
I descend from him twice.
I look forward to meeting cousins whom I share blood with and to hopefully meet others who share some of the same lines that I do from this great man who had such an impact on the history of Rhode Island and thus the early beginnings of our country.
Following is a brief history of and my link to this amazing ancestor who was a very important part of the history of our nation.
Friday, December 21, 2018
John Amyas-13th Great Grandfather
Repinski Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Brown-Smith-Dexter-Field-Amyas Branches
John Amyas, Esquire-13th Great Grandfather
Seargent At Arms to King Henry VIII
In my research into my family history I have discovered so many things that have made my mind spin out of control.
Thoughts of "how could this be possible" is one of the biggest questions my brain has asked time and time again.
Today while doing research I discovered a 13th great grandfather that was the "Sergeant At Arms" of King Henry VIII of England. During the research into my ancestry to him and his ancestry, I also discovered that one of his ancestral great grandmothers was the aunt of Elizabeth Grey Woodville York, Queen of England and wife of Edward IV York, King of England.
Who was this ancestor of mine and what exactly was a "Seargent At Arms"???
Meet my 13th Great Grandfather, John Amyas, Esquire
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
J. Willard Marriott-11th Cousin
Family History Research
Repinski-Dietz Family
Dietz Family Line
Branches: Brown, Medbury, Brown, Beauchamp, Clarke
J. Willard Marriott
Founder of Marriott Hotels
11th Cousin
2 Business career
3 Business colleagues
4 Legacy
5 Personal life
6 Sources
Marriott was born at Marriott Settlement (present day Marriott-Slaterville, Utah), the second of eight children of Hyrum Willard Marriott and Ellen Morris Marriott.
As a child, "Bill", as J. Willard was called, helped to raise sugar beets and sheep on his family's farm. At age 13, Marriott raised lettuce on several fallow acres on the farm and the harvest at summer's end brought $2,000, which Marriott gave to his father. The next year, Hyrum entrusted Marriott, his eldest son, with the sale of a herd of 3,000 sheep, sending him and the sheep unescorted by rail to San Francisco.
At the age of 19 and as a devout Latter Day-Saint, he undertook the traditional missionary work of the church for two years, being assigned to New England.
On his way home after completing his mission, he passed through Washington, D.C. during the sweltering summer months of 1921. While there:
"... [H]e walked from Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument, toiled up the steps to the top, walked back down again, and strolled over to the Lincoln Memorial. Everywhere he went tourists and pedestrians sweltered and sweated in the sultry, humid air. On the way back to his hotel, he just stood there in the street watching the crowds, he couldn't get over it: a push cart peddler would come along the street selling lemonade and soda pop and ice cream, and in minutes he would be cleaned out and on his way to stock up with another cartload".
Marriott graduated from Weber State University, here he served as student body president, with an associate degree in June 1923 and from the University of Utah, where he affiliated with Phi Delta Theta, with a bachelor's degree in June 1926.
After Marriott earned his bachelor's degree, the president of Weber, Aaron Tracy, who had assisted Marriott to enroll there by helping him make up secondary education credits missed due to the Marriott family's ranching efforts, employed him at the school in Ogden.
Marriott soon felt the urge, however, to be his own boss. He heard about a cousin's A&W Root Beer franchise and, remembering his experience seeing so many people suffer through the brutal summer heat of Washington, D.C., he decided to look into a venture there.
In 1927, he secured from A&W Root Beer the franchise rights for Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; and Richmond, Virginia; he then moved to Washington to open a nine-stool root beer stand there with his business partner, Hugh Colton.
They opened on May 20, 1927 at 3128 14th Street, NW. He returned to Utah two weeks later, and married Alice Sheets on 9 June 1927. With the approach of cooler Autumn months, and with the addition of Mexican food items to the menu, the stand became The Hot Shoppe, a popular family restaurant.
In 1928, he opened the first drive-in east of the Mississippi, and the business was incorporated as Hot Shoppes, Inc. in Delaware in 1929. During the Second World War, the business expanded to include the management of food services in defense plants and government buildings, such as the U.S. Treasury.
Marriott's restaurant chain grew, and the company went public in 1953. In 1957, he expanded his business to hotels, opening the first Marriott hotel—actually a motel, the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
The company became Marriott, Inc. in 1967. Two large chains were added to the group, the Big Boy family restaurants in 1967 and Roy Rogers Family Restaurants in 1968.
Over the years, Marriott's company interests expanded. Continuing with food services, Marriott eventually invented airline in-flight food service. This segment of their enterprise continues to be a large part of their business, providing food services to many major airlines. Marriott also provides food services to many colleges, elementary schools and other venues.
Marriott was an energetic worker and rarely rested, preferring to run his company. Many attested to the fact that he ate, lived, breathed and dreamed about how to run and improve his company:
"His managers never knew what time of day or night he’d show up at the kitchen door and go bird-dogging almost at a half-run through the kitchen, the pantries, the storage rooms, the refrigerators, the restaurant itself, running a finger over the shelves to check for dust, checking under tables and in cutlery drawers, checking the ranges, the storage rooms, the trays about to be served, sampling the root beer, and raising hell if everything wasn’t spotless, neat, clean, bright, polished, done efficiently, done well."
Even after the company grew to include hundreds of restaurants and hotels, Marriott vowed to personally inspect every establishment at least four times a year.
Marriott tempered his rigid demands for perfection with devotion to his employees. According to his son, Bill Jr.,:
"In establishing the culture of the company, there was a lot of attention and tender loving care paid to the hourly workers. When they were sick, he went to see them. When they were in trouble, he got them out of trouble. He created a family loyalty."
According to Marriott himself (from a videotaped segment):
"You’ve got to make your employees happy. If the employees are happy, they are going to make the customers happy."
Marriott's wife, Alice Sheets, was actively involved in the business, starting as the bookkeeper at the root-beer stand. Despite the demands of the company, she felt her role as a mother to her two sons was her most important calling and balanced the demands of both of her endeavors.
Marriott and his wife had two sons. Their son Bill Marriott, Jr. is currently Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Marriott International. The other son is Richard Marriott, Chairman of the board for Host Hotels & Resorts, formerly Host Marriott Corporation.
J. Willard Marriott maintained extensive business connections with his Mormon heritage. A prominent associate was Michigan Governor George W. Romney, father of Willard Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and the GOP candidate for president of the United States in 2012. The family friendship is trans-generational as evidenced by Bill Marriott donating $1 million personally to Restore Our Future, a Romney PAC. Mitt Romney's first name is Willard, after John Willard Marriott.
Marriott was for many years in the late 1940s and 1950s president of the LDS Church's Washington Stake headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Institutions/buildings named in honor of J. Willard Marriott
Marriott School of Management
Marriott Center
J. Willard Marriott Library
Marriott Allied Health Building at Weber State University
Marriott's legacy continues today through the continuance of the company he founded and through his community involvement and philanthropy. Marriott was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and sought to share the church's teachings with others by placing a copy of the Book of Mormon in each hotel room, alongside a copy of a Gideon Bible—a tradition that has endured. He also donated funds to the church's flagship tertiary educational institution, Brigham Young University, resulting in the naming of the university's 19000-seat multi-purpose arena (Marriott Center) in his honor. While serving as home to the BYU Cougars men's and women's college basketball teams, the center also hosts various cultural events and religious devotionals. Also at BYU, the university's business school, the Marriott School of Management, is named in honor of Marriott. On the campuses of Marriott's alma maters stands the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah and the Marriott Allied Health Building at Weber State University which houses the Dumke College of Heath Professions.
In 1935, Marriott was diagnosed with lymphoma and given between six months to a year to live. However, he survived to live until 1985.
Marriott was, for many years in the late 1940s and 1950s, president of the LDS Church's Washington Stake headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Sources:
https://relativefinder.org/#/relatives/individual/KW8P-6TY/LTZ7-CCK/51404/4098/LH2Z-P87/39355/false/Male/J.%2520Willard%2520Marriott%252C%2520Sr./Robert%2520Clarcke/Business%2520Leaders
"J. Willard Marriott". www.marriott.com.
^ Jump up to: a b O'Brien, Robert, Marriott: The J. W. Marriott Story, Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co, 1977
^ "Bill Marriott—Big Time Restaurant Man" from The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, 1949, Volume 73, No. 3, Page 165
^ Marriott Culture - Company Heritage | J. Willard Marriott
^ Site Plan for Former Twin Bridges Site County Board Agenda Item, October 15, 2005, Arlington County Government Website
^ O'Brien
^ [1] Archived May 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
^ "Mormons’ First Families Rally Behind Romney" from The New York Times
^ Jump up to: a b O'Brien, Robert, Marriott: The J. W. Marriott Story, Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co, 1977
Repinski-Dietz Family
Dietz Family Line
Branches: Brown, Medbury, Brown, Beauchamp, Clarke
J. Willard Marriott
Founder of Marriott Hotels
11th Cousin
While researching some of the lines that branch out from my Dietz family line through my mother, Marlene Dietz Repinski, I discovered that the founder of the company that I work for was my 11th Cousin!! This is one of the more neat discoveries that I have made in the past couple months.
Meet J. Willard Marriott, the man who created the world's biggest Hotel Empire. The company that I have worked for since 1999.
Introduction
John Willard Marriott, Sr. (September 17, 1900 – August 13, 1985) was an American entrepreneur and businessman.
He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation (which became Marriott International in 1993), the parent company of one of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains, and food services companies.
The Marriott company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington, D.C. in 1927 to a chain of family restaurants by 1932, to its first motel in 1957.
By the time he died, the Marriott company operated 1,400 restaurants and 143 hotels and resorts worldwide, including two theme parks, earned USD $4.5 billion in revenue annually with 154,600 employees. The company's interests even extended to a line of cruise ships.
Marriott Hotels is now the world's largest Hotel and Hospitality.
My Family Line & J.W.'s Family Line
Our Common Ancestors
The two common ancestors of J.W. and myself are Robert Clarke (born 1513) and Margaret Bliss (born 1517) who were my 13th Great Grandparents and who would have been J.W.'s 10th Great Grandparents.
They lived in Courteenhall, Northampton, England.
My 12th Great Grandfather, Edward Clarke (born 1540) and Katherine Clarke Marriott (born 1547) were brother and sister. They were two of six children of Robert and Margaret.
I have not been able to research their lives as of yet.
Who knows what else I will find when I have the time to do so.....
J. Willard Marriott
1 Early life2 Business career
3 Business colleagues
4 Legacy
5 Personal life
6 Sources
Early life
Marriott was born at Marriott Settlement (present day Marriott-Slaterville, Utah), the second of eight children of Hyrum Willard Marriott and Ellen Morris Marriott.
As a child, "Bill", as J. Willard was called, helped to raise sugar beets and sheep on his family's farm. At age 13, Marriott raised lettuce on several fallow acres on the farm and the harvest at summer's end brought $2,000, which Marriott gave to his father. The next year, Hyrum entrusted Marriott, his eldest son, with the sale of a herd of 3,000 sheep, sending him and the sheep unescorted by rail to San Francisco.
At the age of 19 and as a devout Latter Day-Saint, he undertook the traditional missionary work of the church for two years, being assigned to New England.
On his way home after completing his mission, he passed through Washington, D.C. during the sweltering summer months of 1921. While there:
"... [H]e walked from Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument, toiled up the steps to the top, walked back down again, and strolled over to the Lincoln Memorial. Everywhere he went tourists and pedestrians sweltered and sweated in the sultry, humid air. On the way back to his hotel, he just stood there in the street watching the crowds, he couldn't get over it: a push cart peddler would come along the street selling lemonade and soda pop and ice cream, and in minutes he would be cleaned out and on his way to stock up with another cartload".
Marriott graduated from Weber State University, here he served as student body president, with an associate degree in June 1923 and from the University of Utah, where he affiliated with Phi Delta Theta, with a bachelor's degree in June 1926.
After Marriott earned his bachelor's degree, the president of Weber, Aaron Tracy, who had assisted Marriott to enroll there by helping him make up secondary education credits missed due to the Marriott family's ranching efforts, employed him at the school in Ogden.
Marriott soon felt the urge, however, to be his own boss. He heard about a cousin's A&W Root Beer franchise and, remembering his experience seeing so many people suffer through the brutal summer heat of Washington, D.C., he decided to look into a venture there.
Business career
In 1927, he secured from A&W Root Beer the franchise rights for Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; and Richmond, Virginia; he then moved to Washington to open a nine-stool root beer stand there with his business partner, Hugh Colton.
They opened on May 20, 1927 at 3128 14th Street, NW. He returned to Utah two weeks later, and married Alice Sheets on 9 June 1927. With the approach of cooler Autumn months, and with the addition of Mexican food items to the menu, the stand became The Hot Shoppe, a popular family restaurant.
In 1928, he opened the first drive-in east of the Mississippi, and the business was incorporated as Hot Shoppes, Inc. in Delaware in 1929. During the Second World War, the business expanded to include the management of food services in defense plants and government buildings, such as the U.S. Treasury.
Marriott's restaurant chain grew, and the company went public in 1953. In 1957, he expanded his business to hotels, opening the first Marriott hotel—actually a motel, the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
The company became Marriott, Inc. in 1967. Two large chains were added to the group, the Big Boy family restaurants in 1967 and Roy Rogers Family Restaurants in 1968.
Over the years, Marriott's company interests expanded. Continuing with food services, Marriott eventually invented airline in-flight food service. This segment of their enterprise continues to be a large part of their business, providing food services to many major airlines. Marriott also provides food services to many colleges, elementary schools and other venues.
Marriott was an energetic worker and rarely rested, preferring to run his company. Many attested to the fact that he ate, lived, breathed and dreamed about how to run and improve his company:
"His managers never knew what time of day or night he’d show up at the kitchen door and go bird-dogging almost at a half-run through the kitchen, the pantries, the storage rooms, the refrigerators, the restaurant itself, running a finger over the shelves to check for dust, checking under tables and in cutlery drawers, checking the ranges, the storage rooms, the trays about to be served, sampling the root beer, and raising hell if everything wasn’t spotless, neat, clean, bright, polished, done efficiently, done well."
Even after the company grew to include hundreds of restaurants and hotels, Marriott vowed to personally inspect every establishment at least four times a year.
Marriott tempered his rigid demands for perfection with devotion to his employees. According to his son, Bill Jr.,:
"In establishing the culture of the company, there was a lot of attention and tender loving care paid to the hourly workers. When they were sick, he went to see them. When they were in trouble, he got them out of trouble. He created a family loyalty."
According to Marriott himself (from a videotaped segment):
"You’ve got to make your employees happy. If the employees are happy, they are going to make the customers happy."
Marriott's wife, Alice Sheets, was actively involved in the business, starting as the bookkeeper at the root-beer stand. Despite the demands of the company, she felt her role as a mother to her two sons was her most important calling and balanced the demands of both of her endeavors.
Marriott and his wife had two sons. Their son Bill Marriott, Jr. is currently Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Marriott International. The other son is Richard Marriott, Chairman of the board for Host Hotels & Resorts, formerly Host Marriott Corporation.
Business colleagues
J. Willard Marriott maintained extensive business connections with his Mormon heritage. A prominent associate was Michigan Governor George W. Romney, father of Willard Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and the GOP candidate for president of the United States in 2012. The family friendship is trans-generational as evidenced by Bill Marriott donating $1 million personally to Restore Our Future, a Romney PAC. Mitt Romney's first name is Willard, after John Willard Marriott.
Marriott was for many years in the late 1940s and 1950s president of the LDS Church's Washington Stake headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Legacy
Institutions/buildings named in honor of J. Willard Marriott
Marriott School of Management
Marriott Center
J. Willard Marriott Library
Marriott Allied Health Building at Weber State University
Marriott's legacy continues today through the continuance of the company he founded and through his community involvement and philanthropy. Marriott was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and sought to share the church's teachings with others by placing a copy of the Book of Mormon in each hotel room, alongside a copy of a Gideon Bible—a tradition that has endured. He also donated funds to the church's flagship tertiary educational institution, Brigham Young University, resulting in the naming of the university's 19000-seat multi-purpose arena (Marriott Center) in his honor. While serving as home to the BYU Cougars men's and women's college basketball teams, the center also hosts various cultural events and religious devotionals. Also at BYU, the university's business school, the Marriott School of Management, is named in honor of Marriott. On the campuses of Marriott's alma maters stands the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah and the Marriott Allied Health Building at Weber State University which houses the Dumke College of Heath Professions.
Personal life
In 1935, Marriott was diagnosed with lymphoma and given between six months to a year to live. However, he survived to live until 1985.
Marriott was, for many years in the late 1940s and 1950s, president of the LDS Church's Washington Stake headquartered in Washington, D.C.
End Notes
I never got the chance to meet my 11th cousin but I did meet his son Bill Marriott a few years ago.
I am honored to share blood with this man who's company I have worked at for close to 20 years.
This company has been a very large part of my life for many years and I can't think of a time that the word "Marriott" has not been part of my daily life.
Sources:
https://relativefinder.org/#/relatives/individual/KW8P-6TY/LTZ7-CCK/51404/4098/LH2Z-P87/39355/false/Male/J.%2520Willard%2520Marriott%252C%2520Sr./Robert%2520Clarcke/Business%2520Leaders
"J. Willard Marriott". www.marriott.com.
^ Jump up to: a b O'Brien, Robert, Marriott: The J. W. Marriott Story, Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co, 1977
^ "Bill Marriott—Big Time Restaurant Man" from The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, 1949, Volume 73, No. 3, Page 165
^ Marriott Culture - Company Heritage | J. Willard Marriott
^ Site Plan for Former Twin Bridges Site County Board Agenda Item, October 15, 2005, Arlington County Government Website
^ O'Brien
^ [1] Archived May 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
^ "Mormons’ First Families Rally Behind Romney" from The New York Times
^ Jump up to: a b O'Brien, Robert, Marriott: The J. W. Marriott Story, Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co, 1977
Edward Gove-9th Great Grandfather
Family History & Research
Repinski-Dietz Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Pope-Gove Family Branch
Edward Gove
9th Great Grandfather
You, Edward Gove, shall be drawn on a hedge to the place of execution, and there you shall be hanged by ye neck, and when yet living be cut down and cast on the ground, and your bowels shall be taken out of your belly, and your privy members cut off and burnt while you are yet alive, your head shall be cut off and your body divided into four parts, and your head and quarters shall be placed where our sovereign lord, the King pleaseth to appoint. And the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Sometimes in the course of researching family history a story arises that should be put down in our family collection of stories, and this is one.
Meet Edward Gove, the 9th Great Grandfather of myself and my siblings through our mother, Marlene Dietz Repinski.
Repinski-Dietz Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Pope-Gove Family Branch
Edward Gove
9th Great Grandfather
I cried when I read the following two paragraphs:
The judge then respited all the defendents except Edward Gove until the king should declare their punishment; but immediately, shedding tears while doing so, passed sentence upon Edward Gove, as follows:
You, Edward Gove, shall be drawn on a hedge to the place of execution, and there you shall be hanged by ye neck, and when yet living be cut down and cast on the ground, and your bowels shall be taken out of your belly, and your privy members cut off and burnt while you are yet alive, your head shall be cut off and your body divided into four parts, and your head and quarters shall be placed where our sovereign lord, the King pleaseth to appoint. And the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Sometimes in the course of researching family history a story arises that should be put down in our family collection of stories, and this is one.
Meet Edward Gove, the 9th Great Grandfather of myself and my siblings through our mother, Marlene Dietz Repinski.
Saturday, December 01, 2018
George H.W. Bush-9th Cousin
Family Tree History & Research
Dietz Family Tree
Pope Family Branch
George HW Bush
41st President of the U.S.A.
9th Cousin
Yesterday the world lost a great man. He was the 41st president of the United States of America.
He was also my 9th cousin.
My family line to George.........
Dietz Family Tree
Pope Family Branch
George HW Bush
41st President of the U.S.A.
9th Cousin
Yesterday the world lost a great man. He was the 41st president of the United States of America.
He was also my 9th cousin.
My family line to George.........
Friday, November 23, 2018
Sarah Buell Hale-4th Cousin- Progenator of Thanksgiving
Family Tree History and Research
Repinski Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Sarah Buell Hale
4th Cousin
I would like to introduce everyone to another of our relatives from our moms side of our Family Teee. She hails from New England and was born in 1788.
Meet our 4th cousin, Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale.
Sarah Josepha Hale, the Little Lady From NH Who Started Thanksgiving....
Repinski Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Sarah Buell Hale
4th Cousin
A thanksgiving Story
I would like to introduce everyone to another of our relatives from our moms side of our Family Teee. She hails from New England and was born in 1788.
Meet our 4th cousin, Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale.
Sarah Josepha Hale, the Little Lady From NH Who Started Thanksgiving....
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Isaac Allerton-11th Great Grandfather
Family History & Research
Repinski-Deitz Family Tree
Isaac Allerton-11th GGF
Mayflower Passenger
Thanksgiving is tomorrow.
This holiday was always one of my favorites. A day to spend with my family and enjoy good food and the closeness of our family ties. Everyone has special memories of this day for one reason or another or many reasons.
This holiday was always one of my favorites. A day to spend with my family and enjoy good food and the closeness of our family ties. Everyone has special memories of this day for one reason or another or many reasons.
As of a few years ago, this day has brought even more reasons to make it one of my favorite holidays.
That reason is the discovery that me and my siblings and their children are descendants of numerous people who came to America on the Mayflower and who originated the custom of Thanksgiving that we call celebrate on the last Thursday of every November.
Today I would like to remember one set of those ancestral great grandparents and their daughter who is also my ancestral great grandmother.
Meet Issac Allerton and Mary Norris Allerton and their daughter, Mary Allerton Cushman.....my 11th great grandparents and 10th great grandmother, who arrived in North America in 1620 on a ship called the Mayflower.......
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
November 20th, 1968-Birthday of Jacklyn Ann Repinski-My Sister
Family History & Research
Repinski Family Tree
Repinski-Brown Family Branch
Jackie Repinski-Brown
50th Birthday-November 20th
When I was 2 years old I got a baby sister.
Her birth name was Jacklyn Ann Repinski.
We called her Jackie......
Saturday, November 17, 2018
November 16th-110th Wedding Anniversary Henry Dietz & Grace Pope
Family History & Research
Weddings & Anniversaries
Repinski-Dietz Family Tree
Dietz-Pope Family Line
Weddings & Anniversaries
Repinski-Dietz Family Tree
Dietz-Pope Family Line
November 16th
110th Wedding Anniversary
Henry Chester Dietz & Grace Elizabeth Pope
Maternal Great Grandparents
Henry and Grace were married on this day 110 years ago on November 16th, 1908 in Dayton Township, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
My maternal great grandparents are descended from families that until a few years ago I knew hardly anything about.
As I was growing up I only knew that my Dietz family line had German origins through Henry and that the Pope family line was of English origins through Grace. This information was given to me by my mother, Marlene Dietz Repinski, who was the granddaughter of these two people....
Read on for the story of Henry and Grace who were both descended from Anglo European stock and who would give me and my siblings and their children an amazing pedigree that stretches back in history to the colonial America of the Mayflower Pilgrims and the first settlers of the country that we now call the United States of America and to the noble and royal families of Europe and Russia.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Nov 15, 2018-140th Birthday of GGM-Elizabeth Strojk Repinski
Family History & Research
Birthdays
Repinski Family Tree
Stroijk Family Line
Today would be the 140th Birthday of my Paternal Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Stroijk Repinski.
"Lizzie" was born on November 15th, 1878 in the tiny village of Sharon, Portage County, Wisconsin.
Birthdays
Repinski Family Tree
Stroijk Family Line
Today would be the 140th Birthday of my Paternal Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Stroijk Repinski.
"Lizzie" was born on November 15th, 1878 in the tiny village of Sharon, Portage County, Wisconsin.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
My Family Tree Discoveries-A Never Ending Quest
Family Tree History & Research
Growing My Tree and Tracing the Branches
New Discoveries
It has been a little more than two years since I discovered my Mother's ancestry from her Dietz and Pope family lines back to Plymouth and Colonial New England and England and Europe. Before that I had discovered Repinski and Dulek family lines that took me back to the 1700s of Poland and Germany with my paternal lines.
I have been working on finding out as much about all of the branches of all of these amazing lines (and unknown to my immediate family until my discoveries) that are part of this tree since then.
It has and continues to be a thrilling journey and the histories and how they connect to the history of our world are at times mind boggling.
Here on this page I shall try to record the ancestors I am discovering and the cousins that we share as a part of all of these lines and it is my hope that I can write stories on each and every one of them and in the process get to know who these people from the past and who live now are.
My reasons for doing this are two fold..
1.To know and have a written record of my family history for myself.
2.To have an enduring record for my siblings and their children and their descendants.
Each day that I dig into the branches I discover at least two to four more ancestral great grandparents and relatives and though not always, the stories of their lives.
This post will be updated often.....
Growing My Tree and Tracing the Branches
New Discoveries
It has been a little more than two years since I discovered my Mother's ancestry from her Dietz and Pope family lines back to Plymouth and Colonial New England and England and Europe. Before that I had discovered Repinski and Dulek family lines that took me back to the 1700s of Poland and Germany with my paternal lines.
I have been working on finding out as much about all of the branches of all of these amazing lines (and unknown to my immediate family until my discoveries) that are part of this tree since then.
It has and continues to be a thrilling journey and the histories and how they connect to the history of our world are at times mind boggling.
Here on this page I shall try to record the ancestors I am discovering and the cousins that we share as a part of all of these lines and it is my hope that I can write stories on each and every one of them and in the process get to know who these people from the past and who live now are.
My reasons for doing this are two fold..
1.To know and have a written record of my family history for myself.
2.To have an enduring record for my siblings and their children and their descendants.
Each day that I dig into the branches I discover at least two to four more ancestral great grandparents and relatives and though not always, the stories of their lives.
This post will be updated often.....
Thursday, November 08, 2018
November 8, 2018-Joseph Repinski GGF 145th Birthday
Family History & Research
Repinski Family Tree
Joseph Repinski
Paternal Great Grandfather
145th birthday
Today would be the 145th birthday of my Great Grandfather, Joseph Repinski.
Repinski Family Tree
Joseph Repinski
Paternal Great Grandfather
145th birthday
Today would be the 145th birthday of my Great Grandfather, Joseph Repinski.
Sunday, November 04, 2018
November 4, 1896-Joseph & Elizabeth Repinski -Great Grandparents Wedding Anniversary
Family Tree History & Research
Repinski Family Line
Anniversaries
Joseph Repinski & Elizabeth Strojk
Today, November 4th is the 123rd Anniversary of the marriage of my paternal great grandparents.
Joseph P. Repinski and Elizabeth Strojk were married on November 4, 1896 in Polonia Wisconsin.
Repinski Family Line
Anniversaries
Joseph Repinski & Elizabeth Strojk
Today, November 4th is the 123rd Anniversary of the marriage of my paternal great grandparents.
Joseph P. Repinski and Elizabeth Strojk were married on November 4, 1896 in Polonia Wisconsin.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Thomas Pope-Elizabeth Gove-3rd Great Grandparents Wedding Anniversary
Family Tree History
Deitz-Pope-Gove Line
Anniversaries
Thomas Pope and Elizabeth Gove
We all have 32 third Great Grandparents.
To this date I have discovered about 8 of these couples, which is roughly half of them.....
Today, October 31st, is the wedding anniversary of one of those eight couples without who myself and my siblings and their children would not exist:
Thomas Paschal Pope and Elizabeth Adaline Gove, my 3rd great grandparents.
Today is the 158th anniversary of their marriage.
Deitz-Pope-Gove Line
Anniversaries
Thomas Pope and Elizabeth Gove
158th Wedding Anniversary
3rd Great Grandparents
Thomas & Elizabeth Pope
We all have 32 third Great Grandparents.
To this date I have discovered about 8 of these couples, which is roughly half of them.....
Today, October 31st, is the wedding anniversary of one of those eight couples without who myself and my siblings and their children would not exist:
Thomas Paschal Pope and Elizabeth Adaline Gove, my 3rd great grandparents.
Today is the 158th anniversary of their marriage.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Elvis Aron Presley-12th Cousin
Family Tree History and Research
Deitz Family Line
Mayhew-Skiffe-Reaves Branch
Elvis Presley
A new discovery today!
As I was researching one of my lines from my mother's branches I was notified that one of my Family Tree programs found another rather well known relative.
I am amazed at how small the world really is and how humanity is so connected to one another.
The line is a long one and through researching the various other lines that connect to this one I discovered it is a blood line that not only goes back to our mutual ancestral great grandparents but also goes back further to some very interesting people. Read on for my discoveries.
Today I introduce you to our 12th Cousin, Elvis......
Deitz Family Line
Mayhew-Skiffe-Reaves Branch
Elvis Presley
A new discovery today!
As I was researching one of my lines from my mother's branches I was notified that one of my Family Tree programs found another rather well known relative.
I am amazed at how small the world really is and how humanity is so connected to one another.
The line is a long one and through researching the various other lines that connect to this one I discovered it is a blood line that not only goes back to our mutual ancestral great grandparents but also goes back further to some very interesting people. Read on for my discoveries.
Today I introduce you to our 12th Cousin, Elvis......
Monday, October 22, 2018
The Kashubian Exodus-The 1st Polish Settlers of North America-
Family History Research
Repinski Family Tree History
Repinski-Dulak/Dulek Line
My Kashubian Ancestors
About a month ago I received a message from my cousin Shelby Repinski Ellison who just happened to be traveling abroad for work and she messaged me from Poland...the "Mother Land" of my dad's family.
To say I was a little jealous of her at this moment is just a bit of an understatement....
She asked if I knew of any of the areas where some of our family ancestors may have come from.
I have quite the list and I am sure that after sending numerous 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and more Great Grandparents and the places that they came from in Poland....she was probably saying "Oh why did I ask??" (inject big grin).
Some day I hope to make it to Poland and visit all of the places I have discovered in my research. I haven't talked to her since her return but I do hope that she got the opportunity to explore a bit.
As I was going through some of the family tree branches on my Repinski/Dulek side to find these towns for her, I decided to do a little more in depth research into one of the areas that quite a few of my ancestors came from.
I already knew from previous research that most of my dad's ancestry from his mother's Osowski side of the family and her mother's Kiedrowski side of the family all came from an area of Northwest Poland called "Kashubian Pomerania".
A distant cousin, Arthur Newkirk, who lives in North Carolina has helped me with this line by finding and adding some of my ancestors to my family tree on Geni.com which is where I have a tree connected to the "World Tree". The more ones line is filled in on the World Tree, the better one is able to connect to other relations through out the world and throughout history.
The more I dug into my family lines, the more I realised just how intimately KASHUBIA and POMERANIA are connected to my dad's family lines from both his father, Clarence Repinski and his mother Evelyn Dulek Repinski starting in the late 1800s and establishing the bedrock of our family as we know it today.
As one write up in an article on the first settlers says very well:
The hopes and dreams of these immigrants began to be realized as they moved into the 1880’s.
Their simple log homes became part of larger and more comfortable white frame houses. Their children moved to their own farms or to the city for work or to set up a business.
Seven more Polish Catholic parishes were organized.
Even though the "chain migration” from the Kaszuby region had begun to subside by the mid-1880’s, immigrants from the Austrian and Russian partitions of Poland began to find their way to Portage County - usually after a short stay in Chicago or Milwaukee while deciding where to locate.
Perhaps they were drawn to this area by the large, successful Polish community with its Polish Catholic Churches which had its beginning almost 150 years ago.
Some of those immigrants to North America and in particular the ones that settled in Portage County Wisconsin that are my ancestors have the following surnames: Repinski, Dulek, Osowski, Riemer, Kowalski, Cyzewski, Kosobucki, Mrocki, Zblewski, Kiedrowski, Kynter, Polzcynski, Janta, Wosocki,
Come learn about Kashubia and Pomerania and those Kashubian Poles who emigrated away from their homeland to make new lives for themselves...a very large part of the ancestry of my Repinski/ Dulek family history...
Repinski Family Tree History
Repinski-Dulak/Dulek Line
My Kashubian Ancestors
My First Polish Settlers of North America
"A Long Line of Kashubian Immigrant Ancestors"
About a month ago I received a message from my cousin Shelby Repinski Ellison who just happened to be traveling abroad for work and she messaged me from Poland...the "Mother Land" of my dad's family.
To say I was a little jealous of her at this moment is just a bit of an understatement....
She asked if I knew of any of the areas where some of our family ancestors may have come from.
I have quite the list and I am sure that after sending numerous 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and more Great Grandparents and the places that they came from in Poland....she was probably saying "Oh why did I ask??" (inject big grin).
Some day I hope to make it to Poland and visit all of the places I have discovered in my research. I haven't talked to her since her return but I do hope that she got the opportunity to explore a bit.
As I was going through some of the family tree branches on my Repinski/Dulek side to find these towns for her, I decided to do a little more in depth research into one of the areas that quite a few of my ancestors came from.
I already knew from previous research that most of my dad's ancestry from his mother's Osowski side of the family and her mother's Kiedrowski side of the family all came from an area of Northwest Poland called "Kashubian Pomerania".
A distant cousin, Arthur Newkirk, who lives in North Carolina has helped me with this line by finding and adding some of my ancestors to my family tree on Geni.com which is where I have a tree connected to the "World Tree". The more ones line is filled in on the World Tree, the better one is able to connect to other relations through out the world and throughout history.
The more I dug into my family lines, the more I realised just how intimately KASHUBIA and POMERANIA are connected to my dad's family lines from both his father, Clarence Repinski and his mother Evelyn Dulek Repinski starting in the late 1800s and establishing the bedrock of our family as we know it today.
As one write up in an article on the first settlers says very well:
The hopes and dreams of these immigrants began to be realized as they moved into the 1880’s.
Their simple log homes became part of larger and more comfortable white frame houses. Their children moved to their own farms or to the city for work or to set up a business.
Seven more Polish Catholic parishes were organized.
Even though the "chain migration” from the Kaszuby region had begun to subside by the mid-1880’s, immigrants from the Austrian and Russian partitions of Poland began to find their way to Portage County - usually after a short stay in Chicago or Milwaukee while deciding where to locate.
Perhaps they were drawn to this area by the large, successful Polish community with its Polish Catholic Churches which had its beginning almost 150 years ago.
Some of those immigrants to North America and in particular the ones that settled in Portage County Wisconsin that are my ancestors have the following surnames: Repinski, Dulek, Osowski, Riemer, Kowalski, Cyzewski, Kosobucki, Mrocki, Zblewski, Kiedrowski, Kynter, Polzcynski, Janta, Wosocki,
Come learn about Kashubia and Pomerania and those Kashubian Poles who emigrated away from their homeland to make new lives for themselves...a very large part of the ancestry of my Repinski/ Dulek family history...
October 22, 1930-Grandparents Clarence & Evelyn Repinski married
Family History and Research
Repinski Family History
Anniversaries and Birthdays
Today is the 86th Wedding Anniversary of my paternal grandparents, Clarence and Evelyn Repinski.
Conrad "Clarence" Jospeh Repinski married Evelyn Mary Dulek on this day, on October 22nd, 1930 in Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin.
Clarence was born May 23, 1907 in Sharon, Portage, Wisconsin to Joseph Repinski, age 33 & Elizabeth Stroik age 28.
He was the 6th of 12 children.
Clarence's siblings were:
Mary: 1898-died right after birth
George: 1899
Edward: 1901
Pearl: 1903-
Loyd: 1905
Clara: 1909
Dorothy: 1911
Theordora: 1913
Alwine: 1914
Evelyn: 1918
Regina: 1920
Evelyn was born April 26th, 1907 in Plover, Portage, Wisconsin to John Dukek, age 30 and Hedwig Kowalski, age 22.
She would be the 3rd of 12 children.
Evelyn's siblings were:
Chester: 1904
Johanna: 1906
Joseph: 1908
Irene: 1910
Maurice: 1911
Beatrice: 1913
Theresa: 1916
Isabelle: 1918
Angeline: 1920
Hedwig: 1922
John: 1925
Clarence and Evelyn would go on to have 10 children and 32 grandchildren (and many great and great great grandchildren to this day) during their 86 years together:
From left to right top row: Mary, Althea, Margaret, Loretta, Clarence, Evelyn, Maurice, James,
Bottom Row seated: Richard, Shirley, Robert (Missing is Charles)
The ten children (and grandchildren) of Clarence Repinski and Evelyn Dulek Repinski:
Maurice (my father)
(Jane, John, James, Jackie, Jeff)
Loretta
(Robert, Donald)
James
(Diane, Kenneth, Alan, Thomas, Dale)
Margaret
(Linda, Karen, James, Christy)
Charles
(Lynn, Joseph)
Althea
(David, Audrey, Timothy, Amy, Jeffery
Mary
(Connie, Richard, Laura, Scott)
Shirley
(Danielle, Michelle, Kevin)
Richard
(Barbara)
Robert
(Shelby)
My Grandfather, Clarence, died on July 21, 1992
My Grandmother, Evelyn died on February 16, 2000
Happy 86th Anniversary in heaven Grandpa and Grandma!
We all Miss you both and love you so much....
Repinski Family History
Anniversaries and Birthdays
Today is the 86th Wedding Anniversary of my paternal grandparents, Clarence and Evelyn Repinski.
Conrad "Clarence" Jospeh Repinski married Evelyn Mary Dulek on this day, on October 22nd, 1930 in Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin.
Clarence was born May 23, 1907 in Sharon, Portage, Wisconsin to Joseph Repinski, age 33 & Elizabeth Stroik age 28.
He was the 6th of 12 children.
Clarence's siblings were:
Mary: 1898-died right after birth
George: 1899
Edward: 1901
Pearl: 1903-
Loyd: 1905
Clara: 1909
Dorothy: 1911
Theordora: 1913
Alwine: 1914
Evelyn: 1918
Regina: 1920
Evelyn was born April 26th, 1907 in Plover, Portage, Wisconsin to John Dukek, age 30 and Hedwig Kowalski, age 22.
She would be the 3rd of 12 children.
Evelyn's siblings were:
Chester: 1904
Johanna: 1906
Joseph: 1908
Irene: 1910
Maurice: 1911
Beatrice: 1913
Theresa: 1916
Isabelle: 1918
Angeline: 1920
Hedwig: 1922
John: 1925
Clarence and Evelyn would go on to have 10 children and 32 grandchildren (and many great and great great grandchildren to this day) during their 86 years together:
Bottom Row seated: Richard, Shirley, Robert (Missing is Charles)
The ten children (and grandchildren) of Clarence Repinski and Evelyn Dulek Repinski:
Maurice (my father)
(Jane, John, James, Jackie, Jeff)
Loretta
(Robert, Donald)
James
(Diane, Kenneth, Alan, Thomas, Dale)
Margaret
(Linda, Karen, James, Christy)
Charles
(Lynn, Joseph)
Althea
(David, Audrey, Timothy, Amy, Jeffery
Mary
(Connie, Richard, Laura, Scott)
Shirley
(Danielle, Michelle, Kevin)
Richard
(Barbara)
Robert
(Shelby)
My Grandfather, Clarence, died on July 21, 1992
My Grandmother, Evelyn died on February 16, 2000
Happy 86th Anniversary in heaven Grandpa and Grandma!
We all Miss you both and love you so much....
Monday, October 15, 2018
Jacqueline Kennedy (1st Lady)-13th Cousin
Family Tree History & Research
Deitz-Pope Family Line
Smith/Angell Branch
New Discovery: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy-13th Cousin
Today while researching one of my ancestral branches in my dad's family tree and then my mom's family tree I discovered a line that connects both of my family lines to one of the most popular 1st ladies that ever lived.
I was looking into my polish family lines and first discovered that one of my lines from my dad's Repinski side of my ancestry goes back to the Polish-Lithuanian noble Radziwill line in the 1600s.
From that line I drilled down through the centuries and discovered that I had a 13th cousin thrice removed named Antoni Stanislaw Albert Radziwill.
Read on for my discovery....
Deitz-Pope Family Line
Smith/Angell Branch
New Discovery: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy-13th Cousin
Today while researching one of my ancestral branches in my dad's family tree and then my mom's family tree I discovered a line that connects both of my family lines to one of the most popular 1st ladies that ever lived.
I was looking into my polish family lines and first discovered that one of my lines from my dad's Repinski side of my ancestry goes back to the Polish-Lithuanian noble Radziwill line in the 1600s.
From that line I drilled down through the centuries and discovered that I had a 13th cousin thrice removed named Antoni Stanislaw Albert Radziwill.
Read on for my discovery....
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Robert Cushman-11th Great Grandfather
Family History & Research
Robert Cushman
11th Great Grandfather
(Responsible for the Charter of the Mayflower)
Since discovering my family ancestry from my mother and her grandparents, Henry Deitz & Grace Pope, back to Plymouth Mass. and the Mayflower Pilgrims, I have found many ancestral great grandparents and relatives that have English, Scottish and Irish roots.
Robert Cushman is one of those ancestral great grandparents.
Though Robert was not on the Mayflower and is not one of the 1st settlers of Plymouth Colony, he is treated as such in the history of the Pilgrims, as without his assistance, this chapter in the history of the world might never have been written.
Come along with me and meet one of the men responsible for the the Charter of the Mayflower and the sowing of Early Colonial America....
Robert Cushman
11th Great Grandfather
(Responsible for the Charter of the Mayflower)
Since discovering my family ancestry from my mother and her grandparents, Henry Deitz & Grace Pope, back to Plymouth Mass. and the Mayflower Pilgrims, I have found many ancestral great grandparents and relatives that have English, Scottish and Irish roots.
Robert Cushman is one of those ancestral great grandparents.
Though Robert was not on the Mayflower and is not one of the 1st settlers of Plymouth Colony, he is treated as such in the history of the Pilgrims, as without his assistance, this chapter in the history of the world might never have been written.
Come along with me and meet one of the men responsible for the the Charter of the Mayflower and the sowing of Early Colonial America....
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