See links below (in the "Subpages" section) for more information about the Ruskauff family.  My Ruskauff-Freker family tree at Rootsweb My Ruskauff-Freker-Mohelnitzky Family Tree at Ancestry.com Mary Ruskauff Mohelnitzky Milfred Information for my Ruskauff and Freker website was obtained by many sources including personal contact (in person, by letter, by email, by phone) with Claire Ruskauff Hield (photos and info), Irene Soltwedel (photos and info), Dianne Dieter (photos and info), Joanne Duren, Russell Ruskauff (photos and info), Daniel Ruskauff (gedcom), Jodi Sweere (photos and info), Kathleen Garland (diocese research at $15 per hour), Shannon Futta (gedcom), Werner Vuijk (Netherland research), Mike Hamrock (photos and info), Patricia Rumanio (photos and info), group sheets of the Herman A. Ruskauff branch from Arianna Ruskauff Carey, and many more people including recorded interviews with my grandmother. For over 30 years, I have personally researched ancestors using records available for the public, such as records online at Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest, and the old-fashioned way using a hand crank microfilm reader at the Wisconsin Historical Society (of which MANY hours were spent). I have information from vital statistic records (birth, marriage, death records) at court houses, church records (baptism, marriage and deaths) from churches, census records, ship passenger lists, city directories, court house records, land records, citizenship records, family histories, newspaper articles, bibles, local history books, and photographs. I have also tromped cemeteries for hours on end, both near and far. For the cemeteries out of my area, I've gotten photos of tombstones from several volunteers at Findagrave.com. For information on ancestors from the "Old Country," research was conducted by Georg J. Blau who spent many many hours in archives in Niedersachsen, Germany, reading church records on microfiche, emigration lists in books, and other records. He spent many hours tromping cemeteries, researching area history in books, and has stood for hours in front of a copy machine making copies of Ruskauff and Freker documents. Herr Blau also spent many hours tediously transcribing "old" German handwritten documents (some in German, some in Latin) to typed "new" German, then translated that to English. I would like to thank all who have shared information over the years. In 2002, I emailed several Ruskauff researchers to share information and suggested a Ruskauff message board be started. At that time I started the Ruskauff and Freker website. So many researchers were duplicating their research, so I thought "why not share what I've got with everyone." For those interested in the German records found in Osnabrueck, or pictures of the area where the Ruskauff and Frekers lived in Germany, please drop me a line as I am willing to share. ~Debbie Blau Contact (click to contact me) 08/31/2009 | Ruskauff message board at Rootsweb Ruskauff message board at Ancestry Sweere: A Book of Generations - Ruskhauff Sweere: A Book of Generations - Ruskauff Ruskauff - Online Ruskauffs that left the Osnabrueck area of Niedersachsen, Germany and emigrated to Holland/Netherlands See links below for more Ruskauff info. |