This website was created in mid-April 2009. From time to time I add or modify material, and significant additions and changes will be summarized here. If you are revisiting the site, check this page first to see what's new since your last visit. 27 July 2011: Added information about the dates and places of death of John Zink's sister and her husband to the "John's Sister (Mrs. Nicholas Hartman)" page. 20 December 2010: Modified "Their Story" to include details of the 1837 passport issued to John Zink; added the 1850, 1860 and 1870 US census images of the John Zink household to the "Family Documents" page. 19 December 2010: Added a Google map of Morschheim, and a Picasa web album with photos of the 1759 Zinck house and other historic buildings in Morschheim, to the "Morschheim Miscellany" page. 18 December 2010: Added Mary Elizabeth Zink's obituary, the death records of John and Mary Elizabeth Zink, and the passport used by John Zink and his family when they emigrated to the United States in 1837; click on "Family Documents" to view them. 10 October 2009: Finished scanning the minutes of Zink-Graff reunions from 1940 to 1954, and attached them to the "Reunion Minutes" page. 7 October 2009: Added a page about the family of John Zink's sister, Philippina Dorothea, who emigrated to the United States with her husband, Nicholas Hartman, and their children. 6 October 2009: Attached articles from the Niagara Falls Gazette about the 1925 and 1928 Zink-Graff reunions to the "Other Reunion Documents" page. 5 October 2009: Updated the pedigree chart and ancestry report attached to the "John's Ancestors" page to include newly-discovered death dates for John's parents, Johannes Zinck and Catharina Elisabetha Leppert. |