Children of the Odenwald

A Chronicle of One Line of the Breidinger Family

von Michael Breidinger

66 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Children of the Odenwald follows one Breidinger family line across more than three centuries, from the shepherd country of seventeenth-century Germany to Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan.Beginning with Jörg Breidinger, a manorial shepherd born amid the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, the story traces the family through the villages of the Odenwald, Johann Adam Breidinger's 1754 Atlantic crossing, the farms and churches of colonial Pennsylvania, Civil War-era Ohio, and finally the Michigan household of George Washington Breidinger and Josephine Catherine Lancaster.Built from parish registers, ship records, land deeds, censuses, military records, cemetery stones, newspapers, family photographs, and compiled family research, the book combines documented genealogy with narrative history to recover the world in which these people lived.It is not a complete genealogy of every Breidinger descendant. It is the story of one line: shepherds, farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters, soldiers, parents, and children whose road carried the family from the Odenwald to the American Midwest.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798173556851
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published