Bruce and Janice Frahm's
Genealogy page
We have enjoyed collecting data and stories from relatives regarding our ancestors, and doing some research of our own. Janice is the primary researcher, and enjoys reviewing records through the local LDS church, census microfilms, the internet and other places. It's important to organize your data to know what you have. Janice maintains file folders on all antecedents and many other major relatives, and we use the DOS database program Family Roots to produce ancestor and pedigree charts and help organize data.
Stories:
Both sides of Bruce's family are 100% German for a number of generations. Most immigrated to the central USA during the mid-19th Century. It's probably natural to have an especially keen interest in the line of your birth surname. Bruce was pleased to discover his great-grandfather Jacob C Frahm served in the 43rd Illinois Infantry during the Civil War and saw action at Shiloh and Vicksburg. The FRAHM family came to Kankakee Co. IL from Friedrichsholm in Schleswig-Holstein. This is in northwest Germany, and has changed between German and Danish control as various battles and deals have played out over the centuries. About half of Bruce's antecedents arose from this region. There is lots of info on the Schleswig-Holstein webpage and you can enroll in an email reflector to exchange thoughts and inquiries about your ancestors from this part of the world. Great-grandfather Michael Schnellbacher was a wagon maker. He established a blacksmith shop in boomtown Plattsmouth Nebraska, at the confluence of the Missouri and Platte Rivers, at a time when scores of people were arriving to set out west on the Oregon Trail. His expectation that Plattsmouth would be THE city of the region did not pan out, as Omaha gained prominence, but by that time he'd already met his demise at his own hand. Great-grandmother Maria Schmarje spent some years after the death of first husband Hans Holm toiling at a meat packing plant along the banks of the Missouri River in Kansas City. She married August Peters, who brought her to Thomas County and gained some notoriety by importing two strapping Belgian horses with which to work fields. Father Albert Frahm figured in an early 1950s Reader's Digest article on custom wheat harvesters. The article explained that 54 combines from various harvesters, many Canadian, were busy cutting our wheat. During filming of the early 60s CBS documentary The Land, Harry Reasoner came to our farm and interviewed dad for an hour. He appeared for about 15 seconds in the show.
Janice's family is nationally diverse, with German, Irish, French & English forebears. Some immigrated to the east coast early in our country's history, while others came straight to the Midwest more recently. Her great-great-great-great grandfather Thomas Childrey served as a private in Silas Fleming's Company, Adams' Battalion of the Ohio Militia in the War of 1812. Great-great-great grandfather Gallatin Noblitt was a deputy sheriff in Grayson Co Virginia, but once ran afoul of the law for public cursing.... However he became captain of Company F, 33rd Regiment of the Missouri Militia during the Civil War and figured prominently in pro-Union action in Crab Apple Creek, Pea Ridge and the ensuing retributions. Great-great-great-great-great grandfather William Maxwell, a Revolutionary soldier, published the first newspaper northwest of the Ohio River. After recognition of national independence, he set out west to work in his chosen field. He crossed the Alleghanies, proceeded to Pittsburg, came down the Ohio, and established himself in the fledgling community of Cincinnati, population 200. Soon, in 1793, he was editing the CENTINEL of the North-Western TERRITORY. Great-great-great-great grandfather Samuel Owen served in the Mexican War as corporal, 4th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers. Great-grandparents Charles and Oder Ann Palmer Loyd were among the 100,000 people seeking land in the Cherokee Strip 25 July 1893. They did pretty well in marking a nice 160 acre plot during the hour-long melee commencing at noon, but were soon forced off their claim by bullies, and returned to Kansas! Great-great grandfather John Jacob Poister, a carpenter, built the first hotel in Rockwood, Pennsylvania in 1860, then purchased it in 1872. By 1880 he had built the first gristmill in his southern Pennsylvania town along the Casselman River. Father Loyd Baughman loaded ammo on P47 Thunderbolts in WW II's European Theatre for the 8th Air Force, taught for awhile and returned to the family Angus ranch at Longton
If you are researching surnames which you think may be related to ours, please contact us!
Pedigrees of our families
The four-generation pedigrees available below may contain links on names in the right-hand column. Those link to a new four-generation pedigree for that person (they go further back that line).
Bruce Frahm Pedigree contains Andresen Brockholdt Eggers Frahm Funk Greve Heldt Keller Ketels Knmpf Koch Lau Moller Peters Rasmus Reimers Roenfeldt Schmarje Schnellbacher Sick Vadersen Vanduison (alt. Andersen Kumpf Reiners Snellbacker)
Janice Baughman Frahm Pedigree contains Adair Armstrong Barnett Baughman Childrey Cunningham Davis Denniston Gilmore Green Hamilton Hayes Hays Heller Howard Hubbard Loyd Maxwell McCrea Miller Newcomer Nicholas Noblitt Owen Palmer Phillips Poister Pullen Robbins Rollins Varner Wilson
External links:
http://www.cyndislist.com/ Has all sorts of links for all levels of genealogist
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm Social Security Death index; other legal records
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp LDS Church's resources
http://www.ancientfaces.com/cgi-bin/index.cfm database of portraits, stories, etc. We recommend you upload your photos of ancestors to this site -- we'd like to see it 'take off'.