Voelker Family History

by Dave Voelker on February 27, 2011 · 4 comments

In 1849 Martin Völker left his hometown in Sailauf, Bavaria and made his way to the United States. He settled on the western frontier in Cincinnati, Ohio and started a family that has remained in the area more than six generations.

The story of the Völker / Voelker family history can be found here where we keep all of our data. I am currently using the webtrees software to provide an organized means of displaying this information, Voelker Family History will take you to this information.

I also maintain an Ancestry.com family tree and anyone with an Ancestry.com account that would like to see my information there should email me and I will grant you access to my data at Ancestry.com.

One of the things our family was blessed with is a collection of original documents from our emigrated ancestor Martin Völker. We were very fortunate that our family has preserved over the years a number of original documents from Martin including birth certificate, military dismissal papers, citizenship papers and more. These are wonderful documents to have a clear link to our family heritage. As one might expect, these have also been very useful in unearthing additional information about our ancestral homeland and family in Bavaria.

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1 Jill Rueble Hughes July 15, 2011 at 2:28 pm

Hi David. You have a stunning website! I left you a note on Ancestry, but thought I would reiterate it here. You used my Rueble Family Tree as a source and unfortunately we aren’t connected. Your William Pius Pfeiffer (you are so fortunate to have those beautiful photos!) was not a child of Phillip and Pauline (Rueble) Pfeiffer. They had 5 children, two of which were boys: Gus and William Walter who went by the name Walter. A quick search of the Ohio Marriages database shows that William Pius’ parents were William Pfeiffer and Elizabeth Gartner. Hope this helps.
Jill

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2 Dave Voelker July 17, 2011 at 5:29 pm

Jill –

Thanks for dropping your note and also for commenting on my site. I am going to go in and “unconnect” us and then also look to see what mistake I had made in making the connection in the first place. I do know that this side of our family was very well researched by another family member and I will look to see if he has made the same mistake and if I had copied it from him. Regardless, thanks so much for taking the time to comment, getting these things right is the most important thing/

Best –

Dave Voelker

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3 Jill Rueble Hughes July 25, 2011 at 7:52 pm: Thanks Dave!
Jill

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4 Bruno December 14, 2011 at 12:32 am

Hi David. You have a stunning website! I left you a note on Ancestry, but thought I would reiterate it here. You used my Rueble Family Tree as a source and unfortunately we aren’t connected. Your William Pius Pfeiffer (you are so fortunate to have those beautiful photos!) was not a child of Phillip and Pauline (Rueble) Pfeiffer. They had 5 children, two of which were boys: Gus and William Walter who went by the name Walter. A quick search of the Ohio Marriages database shows that William Pius’ parents were William Pfeiffer and Elizabeth Gartner. Hope this helps.
Jill
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