A Family History/Genealogy Resource
For members of the extended Schutze, Bartlett, McCrie and Ehrlich families.
Today's date is June 7th (New York time zone)
On This Date
- William McCrie was born in 1803 in Ochiltree, Ayr, Scotland
- Johann Leonhardt Schrotzberger was born in 1823 in Roeckingen, Mittelfranken, Bayern, Germany
- Orrison Bartlett Estey was born in 1863 in Dummerston, Vermont
- Rosina Bieri died in 1961 in Lowell, Kent, Michigan
From the Blog...
Witch’s Day — September 22nd
One of the ugliest chapters of American history, the Salem witch trails of 1692, affected a number of our ancestors. According to an insightful book on the subject, The Devil Discovered: Salem Witchcraft 1692, by Enders A. Robinson, the witch hunt “was driven by conspiracies of envious men [namely, the extended family of Thomas Putnam] …
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28 March 2025The Road Not Taken
My wife’s mother, Billie Ehrlich, born in 1933, was the daughter of a barber in Owosso, Michigan. She attended Owosso High School, graduating in June of 1952. A year later she married Jim Bartlett, also an Owosso native, who’d just returned from a four-year stint with the U.S. Navy. My wife, however, mentioned that Billie …
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5 October 2024Jacob A. Heist: A Michigan Wolverine
“Come on, you Wolverines!” — General George Custer, rallying the Michigan Cavalry at Gettysburg, 3 July 1863 “As we passed into the field a shell exploded directly in front of us. It took a leg off a man who had dismounted to fight on foot, and I saw him hopping around on his one remaining …
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2 May 2024Rose Estall: A Rose By Any Other Name
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ William Shakespeare This is the story of Rose Estall, our grandmother Bessie’s sister, who through some name changes left me at sea in the search for her. (Ironic, considering Bessie believed Rose was …
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6 June 2023Another Door Opens
In preparation for our trip to Germany to walk in the footsteps of our ancestors, we reviewed the parish records of the Bavarian village of Röckingen, where our Schrotzberger ancestors hailed from. The Schrotzberger clan appeared in the parish records from 1736 through the time when our great-great-grandfather left to pursue his career as a …
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