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Materials are gradually being moved to this website. During the transition period, you also can find material on the original vom Saal family history website that I developed in 2009 but have not updated for several years.
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Link to the earlier vom Saal Family History website that I developed over ten years ago and has not been significantly updated since 2009. My hope is to gradually transfer that information here, and to update and add to it.
Also to be added is more information on whether the present day vom Saal family is really related to the von Heppenheim vom Saal family described in the 1707 book and depicted in the monument in the Worms cathedral.
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. This section was never really developed and there is almost nothing there.
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website.
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website.
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. Includes scans of two very large old velvet covered photo albums with many family ancestors. Also a couple of preliminary sets of photos of Meta and Fred (my grandparents) and a few old family photos.
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. – A set of old documents including baptismal certificates, marriage certificates, and other church records from Germany.
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. This memorial booklet was published after the death of Friedrich Heppenheimer on April 20, 1878. It includes testimonials in German and English. Friedrich Heppenheimer was my grandfather’s father’s father, born in Crumstadt Germany in 1826.
Also available is a translation of the biography of Friedrich Heppenheimer and a photo. For more information and photos, see the Historical Documents section of the old website.
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. But note new copy of old family tree from 1707 book (see below)
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. BUT see below for a new set of photos.
Photos and information about the “kneeling knight” monument in the Cathedral in Worms, Germany. Link to my OneDrive folder with more recent photos of the “kneeling knight” who may or may not be our ancestor. These are better photos than the ones on my old website – they were taken when Suzanne and I visited Worms Cathedral in Germany in 2010.We may or may not be descended from him. I need to add more about that.
The Schaefer Brewing Company was founded in 1842 by Frederick and Maximilian Schaefer. The company made Schaefer Beer and at one time was one of the largest brewing companies in the country. Max Schaefer was my great-great-grandfather. Information includes:
This includes photos and information about the vom Saal property in Sharon Springs, NY, which was in the family for over 100 years. This property, called “The Park” at the northern end of the small village of Sharon Springs, formerly included bath houses, the main house, a bandstand, a tennis court, a barn converted to include a caretaker’s home, and the iconic “Magnesia Temple” which still stands today. I visited it often as a child.
Also see the video of the house in Sharon Springs made by my niece Jennifer Decker when she was young.
Also see the historic photos of Sharon Springs from my old website.
We have a copy of an old book published in 1707 that shows family trees of families in Germany. It includes a family tree of the von Heppenheim vom Saal family with entries from years 1019 to 1684. This link contains new photos with better images than the images on my old family history website.
Photos of family gravestones from locations in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY. They may be useful in determining or confirming dates in our family history. Also included are maps of the cemetery with information on locations of several family plots.
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