On my mom's side, a big thick book was printed mebbe 50 years ago tracing it back to the 1600s around Stuttgart, including the name change (Americanized spelling) and the first one here back in the early 1700s .... I know where his grave is.
Dad's side, also going back to the 1600s near Stuttgart, including an Americanized name change was done mebbe 30-40 years ago including DNA stuff, but way before the internet and these web sites.
Coincidental that both branches ended up here locally in the early 1700s by totally different paths.
I'm expecting a knock on my door any day now fwiw....
signed,
J Higgins
