Anna’s paternal ancestors

General posts, books, papers

Family history updates (post)
Family history slideshows: Anna’s paternal line (post)

van Raaphorst

Birthday tribute: Jansje Barendsen
Jansje Barendsen
Agatha Bisson
Birthday tribute: John van Raaphorst
Happy Father’s Day, Dad! (John van Raaphorst)
Happy birthday, Tante Bets!
Elisabeth Johanna Maria van Raaphorst
My van Raaphorst cousins
Chris and Elisabeth van Raaphorst
John and Nan van Raaphorst
van Raaphorst babies
Christiaan Frederick van Raaphorst
Johan (John) Nicolaas van Raaphorst
Theodorus Leonardus van Raaphorst

Metsch

Adam Friederich Metsch
Elisabeth Johanna Maria Metsch

Anna’s maternal ancestors

General posts, books, papers

Family history slideshows: Anna’s maternal line (post)
Nan and Anna’s trip to Michigan in 1987 (post)
Decoration Day (post)
Honoring veterans (post)

Nan remembers her childhood (Riedel, Schreiter)

Books and music
Christmas
Foods
Four happenings
Nan remembers: Halloween
Horses and cars
Household routines
Modern conveniences
Pets
Anna’s comments on “Pets”
The “red house” (Nan’s childhood home)
Riedel Lumber Company (the business owned by her father)
Visit to Nan’s Schreiter aunts, 1914
Nan’s introduction to family history
Thanksgivings
The Riedel/Schreiter cottage
Anna: Comments on the Riedel cottage

Other writings by Nan (Riedel, Schreiter)

Valentine greetings
“Dear Eliz” – a story from her days as a high school teacher
“The Joy of Travel,” 1995
“Dear Friends” letter, 1997

Riedel

Birthday tribute: Adolph Riedel
Happy 100th birthday, Kelley Riedel!
Heinrich Adolph Riedel
Anna comments on Heinrich Adolph Riedel
Louis Hermann Riedel
Marie Augusta Joram
Nettie Augusta Riedel
Happy birthday, Aunt Selma Riedel!

Schreiter

Isolde Kneschke Schenk remembers: Christmas in Germany
Friederike Luise Dorsch
Anna Maria Schreiter
Ehregott August Albin Schreiter