Calendar of added and significantly updated items

 

July 2010

  • Images on the people pages are now displayed as thumbnails; click to see enlarged image
  • Charts are accented to highlight ancestors and siblings of ancestors
  • A new tab called "Oddments" (I tried to think of a shortish word that conveyed the idea!) which is a place to collect interesting odds & ends that either don't quite belong elsewhere on the site or that you might miss. There are two items so far: "Henry's Puzzle" trying to sort out Kolthammers who immigrated to America, and a collection of photos of the first generation of Kolthammers in England.  Should we try to collect second generation photos, i.e. grandchildren of Fritz & Margarete?
  • New photos of Marguerite (Mary Margaret) Kobold Kolthammer's gravesite in Ramsgate, Kent (thanks Jill)
  • Extended the Kobold ancestry several generations in Eichenau, Württemberg
  • A map showing where the Kobold family lived

July 2009

  • Extended Friedrich Wilhelm's ancestry several generations to Dietrich Burchard Kolthammer (1630-1701). Amazing to realize that he was born 379 years ago as I write this!
  • Added a chart showing Dietrich's descendants
  • Have included most of the Kolthammers to be found in the Schneverdingen church records, in most cases extracting an image of the relevant entry. Some of the early ones I have not yet been able to decipher and you will notice that the quality of the images around 1800-1810 is quite poor. These are all descendants of Dietrich.
  • A huge discovery - our earliest photos (thank you Connie)

 

 

June 2009

* Redesigned the site with 'easier on the eyes' fonts and colours

* Added 1911 census information for Margarete and family

* More about Anna Margareta (1886-1972), including a photograph. She married and went to India, was widowed, returned to England, then traveled to the United States. There she met and married a former Catholic priest, returning to England for the last four years of her life

* More about Henry Kolthammer (1849-1936), a cigar maker who emigrated to the United states, then Canada. His branch is not yet connected to ours

* Finally making inroads on the German records that I've collected. Added basic information for Margarete's birth family in Eichenau, Württemberg, Germany. Her father Johann Georg Kobold was a farmer of a small farm who, with his wife Marie Catherine Rosina, had eleven children

* Added about 25% of the Kolthammer church records from Schneverdingen, Hannover, Germany. So far, I have just included the bare bones information in order to sort out the families and have not transcribed details such as occupations or witnesses. Experimented with adding highlights on difficult to read images - see Rudolph Christopher and Diedrich Christoph.

* Added an ancestry chart for Friedrich Wilhelm Kolthammer, which hopefully will expand as more of the church records are added.

March 2009

* Passenger list, ship photo, 1916 census information for William Henry Kolthammer who immigrated to Canada; also information about his first family in Winnipeg

February 2009

* Biographical information and photos for Frederick William (FW) Kolthammer/Cuthbertson (Jean's research)

* Baptism for Hanna Christine Elizabeth, which names her parents and moves us to Schneverdingen in the Kingdom of Hanover...many more German church records to come

* US naturalization papers for Christoph Heinrich Kolthammer who may be the husband of Anna, who was also in New York. Perhaps he is also Henry who bought land in Colorado, had a son in Washington State, and eventually settled in British Columbia, Canada

January 2009

* Baptism record for Friedrich Wilhelm & his (new to me) sister Johanne Christine (thanks, William)

* Photos of Ethel Cuthbertson (who married Frederick) and their children Jack and Margaret (thank you, Carola)

* Information from the newly released English 1911 census. In one household were Margaret and her children Charles, Bertha, Eda, and Lily. In another were Frederick and his wife Ethel

* Also in England was a new-to-us Kolthammer, Marie M from Germany

* A Google search for Kolthammer and Otter (Marie's birthplace) led me to Wilhelm, who died in WW1

8 January 2009

* Website launched