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Boedefeld Genealogy

Here is where I keep a list of my Boedefeld family research, including the Worsley and Selgrath family lines, who are the maternal lines that married into the Boedefeld lines in two consecutive generations. The Boedefelds and the Selgraths came to Pennsylvania from Germanic states in the 1830s. The Boedefelds were from Stockum, near Amecke and Balve, in the Arnesberg region of Prussia. The Selgraths were from towns in the contested coal lands that are now the Saarland, but then they were either in the hands of the French or controlled by Bavaria. The Worsleys came from Lancashire, England in the 1840s.

Boedefeld Stories:

Selgrath Stories:
Worsley Stories:

5 comments:

  1. Hallo Marci,
    I am from Germany, Anna Maria Theresia Gierse is my greatgreat grandaunt.She is the mother of Ferdinand and Bernard Boedefeld. You don't need show my article , but I will be pleased, if you answer me in an email.I don't find your email. My grandmother Klara Gierse was born at Dinschede today a part of ARNSBERG.
    greetings from Germany
    Jutta

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    1. Hello and glad to meet you, Cousin Jutta. You can write to wahlqu821 at gmail and I will be happy to write you back. Thank you!

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  2. Interesting reading. As a Selgrath with a firm and consistent oral family history, your Blog and evidence throws much dissention in that very same oral history. I am descended from the John Line of Selgrath's, from Peru Indiana. My father was John, but my grandfather was actually a lweis (not from the Lewis line) Or maybe it was Luis.

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    1. Hello Cousin Jim! Not all Selgraths in America are from the same family that I've documented here. I have found Selgraths from the same area of Germany who also came to America but not Pennsylvania, and your line may be from them. They are probably related, but further back.

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  3. James Patrick Selgrath (Jim) at jpselgrath@gmail.com

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