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This section contains a guide to Germanic language and culture (Germania) in addition to the genealogy of three families of Germanic descent. It is important to recognize that "Germanic" applies to many nations and cultures in addition to Germany. It applies directly to Switzerland, Austria, and northern Italy, and only a little less directly to England, Scotland, Denmark and Sweden. The English language has more in common with German than it does with Latin and its derivatives, French, Italian and Spanish.
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This site is made possible by contributors who have submitted information about their families. You can play your part by adding members of your family who are missing from this site.
Some of the information comes from records of birth, marriage, and death. Much more comes from family records and memory. If you can provide missing data, or have records that are more accurate than the facts shown here, please click here to send them to us.
Once a name gets into the web site, it is available for others to find, and to report connections into other family lines.
We would also like to record stories and anecdotes that help bring the records to life and turn names and dates into the real people that they were or are. Stories like that of Carl Busdiecker (i631), who left Germany in a flour barrel to avoid conscription, or Fred Busdiecker (i1144, b. 1891, d. 1965), orphaned at age 11 and employed at a cigar box factory where he had to stand on a box to operate the equipment.
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Should my family be included here?
If your family connects to ours through any member of the following families, we would like to include it on this site.
The Bus'd'ker genealogy presently includes the following surnames:
Alvarez, Atwood, Ballance, Beeker, Black, Blendell, Borcherding, Brandt, Brogan, Brown, Buschdiecker, Busdeicker, Busdeker, Busdicker, Busdiecker, Busdieker, Bush, Bushdiecker, Bussdiecker, Bussdieker, Bussmann, Buszdieker, Campbell, Cassaubon, Childs, Clarke, Cochran, Culver, Cutright, Dalton, Dennis, Diatta, Dickson, Dohr, Dreyer, Dusing, Eha, Endicott, Ernsthausen, Esker, Fenton, Fisher, Flora, Franks, Furnish, Gerding, Gillespie, Gravelle, Gray, Griesenauer, Hagemeier, Ham, Hammer, Hays, Hensiek, Hetrick, Hollander, Irwin, Karl, Karns, Keeler, Keough, Kinker, Klaustermeyer, Kline, Kondrick, Korner, Kruse, Lang, Lanig, Lee, Legersky, Linke, Lintner, Malloney, Maloney, Marsh, Meyer, Moll, Neidner, Ostmann, Peck, Peloquin, Pfund, Plohr, Poiry, Polesovsky, Ray, Reamsnyder, Remele, Rospert, Rusch, Sandwisch, Sayre, Schatzler, Schmidt, Schramm, Schultz, Schwede, Spegt, Sperling, St. John, Storer, Sullivan, Sweeton, Terry, Timmons, Toole, Turner, Wade, Walker, Weaver, Wehmeier, Weiland, Welbourn, Wiechman, Williams, Winegardner, Witker, Zbinden
The Giedinghagen genealogy presently includes the following surnames:
(NOTE: The Giedinghagen records are not yet automated. They are presented as images of typewritten pages. When those pages have been transcribed to computer-readable text, the surname list will be added here.)
The Linder genealogy presently includes the following surnames:
Blumenfeld, Busdiecker, Campbell, Cole, Donahower, Kupfer, Linder, Moore, Mrazek, Newby, Roscoe, Schoelz, Wormsley, Wright