Paulina Gersbacher, 1895 140 years ago today, on 13 August 1876, my great-grandmother Paulina (Gersbacher) Schneider was born in Nieder...

My great-grandparents John Schneider and Paulina Gersbacher were married 114 years ago today. When I was taking the National Institute for...

My great-grandfather 's brother William J. Schneider was a wrestler. He participated in wrestling matches at the Standard Theater in St....

"Chateau Thierry, the turning point of the World War". Postcard depicting the World War I Battle of Château-Thierry. Postcard pu...

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch , 23 December 1927, p. 27 Charles F. Foerstel, the father of my maternal grandmother's first husband Will...

Today is the day that we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country. I am remembering family members who died whi...

The surname Schneider means "tailor" in German. It is an occupational surname. These maps from Christoph Stöpel's Geogen 3.0 ...

My mother recently gave me this cat and pyramid. They belonged to my maternal grandmother Margaret Ann (Schneider) Boe . She got them in ...

Margaret Ann (Schneider) Boe and her daughter and son-in-law

March 29 is Knights of Columbus Founder's Day. On 2 October 1881, Father Michael J. McGivney , the assistant pastor of St. Mary's Ch...

St. Louis Republic , 6 April 1903, page 10  My Schneider and Gersbacher ancestors lived in St. Louis and were Catholic. They probably a...

I am thinking of my maternal grandmother Margaret Ann (Schneider) Boe on her birthday. She would have been 105 today. Margaret Ann (Sch...

February 20 is National Love Your Pet Day . I have six beautiful cats that I love dearly. Jewel Melody and Harmony Luna ...

The Blizzard of 2016 has buried my house in snow. There is so much snow that I can only open the side door (the one I use) an inch or two. I...

This recipe for Three Bean Salad is from my maternal grandmother Margaret Ann (Schneider) Boe . My mother often makes it.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch , 19 February 1969, page 23D Schneider Charles J. (Carl) Schneider, Wed., Feb. 19, 1969, fortified with the Sa...

Santa Fe, New Mexico was the regular vacation spot of my 2nd-great-grandparents Carl Joseph and Christina (Nagel) Schneider. Christina'...