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From: "Vicki Stewart" <>
Subject: Re: [GEORGE] Origins of GEORGE
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:55:42 -0500
In-Reply-To: <004e01c8feba$b31418b0$01fea8c0@TripleLLL>


Shirlee..... The name Gerloch is definitely German. I have been told that
he went by Kellogg here in U.S. (maybe Kellogg is the English version of
Gerlach??)


Vicki Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On
Behalf Of Shirlee Lee
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 4:39 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [GEORGE] Origins of GEORGE

Dawna...
In this email what is "Gerloch"?
I believe that Jans Christian and Christian are probably
the same.....




----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawna lamb" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [GEORGE] Origins of GEORGE


> Do you have any dates on Gerloch and Christian born, and who they married
> and where you found this information in SLC? I have a Jans Christian
> (Kristien) and this is the first time I have seen any reference to a
> Christian. I am heading to SLC main library Monday and would love to
> research this .
>
> Thank you
> Dawna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vicki Stewart" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:33 AM
> Subject: [GEORGE] Origins of GEORGE
>
>
>
> I have been reading the rantings about being teased about your last name.
> I
> too experienced the same "nicknames" that everyone else has had happen.
> So
> guess it's more common than I thought.
>
> As for the origin of the name George: I had always thought it was English,
> but when I started researching, I found that my George ancestors
> immigrated
> to the U.S. in 1850s from Germany. In German, the last name was spelled
> without the last E........ Georg. The E was added here in the U.S.
> Gerloch
> George and his family landed at Leavenworth, KS where there was quite a
> large number of German immigrants; in fact they started a German Lutheran
> school for the children.
>
> I have found a lot of info on my gg grandfather and his immediate family,
> but I have "hit with the brickwall" when looking for his brother,
> Christian
> George, who, I think, came a few years after Gerloch and his family. I'm
> certain that he didn't settle in Leavenworth, KS, but where??? Both
> Gerloch
> and Christian were born, baptized, and married in Leibenscheid, Germany.
> I
> have found those records from Salt Lake City.
>
> I am curious if there is anyone out there from this line of the GEORGE's.
> Vicki George Stewart
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Alexa K Richard
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:17 AM
> To:
> Subject: [GEORGE] Origins of GEORGE
>
> I began my genealogy quest way back in 1975. My mother had claimed her
> GEORGE roots were Irish, but most everyone would tell me, "GEORGE is an
> English name". So I began my quest. I've found my paternal lines with
> ease. My mother's maternal lines were a breeze. Here it is more than 30
> years later, and I've only gone back as far as the early 1800s
> Philadelphia
> with my GEORGE line and can't find what happened to my GEORGE
> great-grandparents in the after 1907. My grandfather died in 1934 and took
> all his knowledge with him. The lines connecting to the GEORGEs have been
> easier to trace, but those GEORGE people are tough.
>
> I remember telling my mother I thought her family name was really JAMES
> and
> her grandfather must have been Jesse and his brother was probably Frank,
> so
> to be on the safe side, the family changed their name to GEORGE. She
> didn't
> appreciate my humor.
>
> Washington GEORGE? Oh, that must be a killer to do searches on.
>
>>From my research, I've found many GEORGEs in the Philadelphia and
> Pittsburgh areas of Pennsylvania and the surrounding counties. I don't
> know
> if they were ultimately related.
>
> Alexa
> Not a GEORGE by name but one by bloodline
>
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