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From: "Harold Clupper" <>
Subject: Re: [INWABASH] My Trip to Wabash County and Look Ups
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 16:16:43 -0400
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Jim,

Have you corresponded with my wife, Barbara Schlemmer or her sister, Pat (Reed) Schlemmer? I have
some stuff on their ancestors.

cheers,

Harold Clupper from Chester Co., PA (born and raised in Wabash)


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Subject: Re: [INWABASH] My Trip to Wabash County and Look Ups


> Hello Leta, et al,
>
> I've not yet set dates but this spring or summer I'm going to make *The
> Genealogical Pilgrimage to Wabash* as well. At least three generations of the
> Geible/Geibel and other branches are buried in Falls Cemetery, among others. Its
> difficult to put into words but the small town places in my family history call
> to me to go there.
>
> My Dad died in 1987 and he was the last link to that branch of our heritage,
> save the recollections of conversations and names that he told my siblings and
> I. Thus we needed real records to research.
>
> While I hesitate to mention anything that is so purely commercial as this, I
> have had enormous success in researching even the most obscure branches of our
> family with www.ancestry.com. I paid extra to get the newspapers and census
> pages which are just amazing. If you have one unique last name and a city or
> county, the images of the census pages (going way back) are very revealing. You
> get the entire family of that year, the (country) birthplaces of the parents
> of the head of household and spouse, all of the children living at that time,
> the street address where they lived, and more. I have literally sat for hours
> on end doing productive online research. Yes, it does cost some $$ but most of
> the basic service and the 'extras' I paid for cover an entire year of access.
> If I really push it I can get most of my work done in that year.
>
> A freebie resource is your web browser. Go to www.google.com, www.yahoo.com,
> www.altavista.com and start entering keywords: family names and a township or
> county and the state, change the order of the words and search again and
> you'll often get a bunch of new sites to go and research. Follow all links, and
> keep going back to that browser search results page and search each found site
> until you no longer are getting 'hits' that are relevant.
>
> While you go to websites of interest that have searchable pages (such as the
> Wabash County Historical Society) save or bookmark those pages into a new
> "Favorites" file so you can go back and meander through them deeper when you have
> more time. Be creative with your keywords, you never know what you might find.
>
> Some of my people came from Wabash, Urbana, North Manchester, downstate in
> Perry County, upstate in the Elkhart area .... and now that our kids are grown I
> have the time to go back to Wabash (I grew up in Chicago) and I am very eager
> to do so.
>
> The books you seek to purchase can be found offered for purchase online while
> doing your searches. But consider going to the GEN-WEB pages for Wabash and
> surrounding counties and see if anyone has the books and has posted a note
> saying that they will do lookups for interested persons. Its a bit cheaper than
> buying a book that you may only need to look at once.
>
> Write if I can help you.
>
> Jim Geibel
> Baltimore, MD
>
> GEIBLE, GEIBEL, SCHLEMMER, GEMMER, SCHMIDT
>
>
>
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