Diefendorf Clan

The Diefendorf/Diefendorff family has been a hard one to trace. The first record of a Diefendorf/Diefendorff in Summit County, Ohio is Jeremiah, and yes, his surname is found  both as Diefendorf and Diefendorff.   

[1st Gen]   Jeremiah Diefendorff [1824-1859] married

                       Elizabeth Jeanette Reese [ ?-1870] they had 4 know children:
                                Menzo H [1847-1882]
                                Charles [1849-1870]
                                John J [1851-1930]
                                Dolly Ann [1854-1865]

     [2nd Gen]   John J Diefendorff  [1851-1930] married

                              Thomascinna Ravely [1850-1923] they had 2 known children
                                  Jerry Migha [1875-1932]
                                  Dora Elizabeth [1880-1980]

           [3rd Gen]   Jerry Migha Diefendorff [1875-1932] married

                                   Eva Mae Serfass [1875-1961] had 9 known children

                                          John Everett [1896-1969]
                                          Earl Russell [1902-1967]
                                          Ruth Violet [1904-1958]
                                          Gladys Irene [1906-1985]
                                          Geraldine Sadie [1908-2000]
                                          Dora Elizabeth [1911-1996]
                                          Clarence Alvin [1913-1945]
                                          Robert Arle [1918-1994]
                                          Clifford Forest [1921-2008]                                           

                [4th Gen]   John Everett Diefendorf  [1896-1969] married

                                        Mildred Marie Norris [1899-1983] had 11 children
                                             Betty Jane [1917-2002]
                                             Russell Henry [1919-1985]
                                             Anna Mae [1920-1966]
                                             Madeline Marie [1923-1999]
                                             June Louise
                                             John Emmit [1926-1926] 
                                             Ella Jean [1929-1997]
                                             Dorothy Jacqueline 
                                             Naomi Lee
                                             Kenneth Burl [1935-2006]

I will be posting more on each individual family unit with more information and documentation. This is just a "bare bones" outline of the Diefendorfs. From this you should be able to find your parent or grandparents.

Hello

Hello Everyone!

I've decided to create this blog, Search Through Time, to connect with family members who are interested in their Family Tree, but not so much in wading through countless forms. Let's face it... those forms can be confusing and hard to understand unless you are used to working with them.

I started with the Dailey-Mathias Family Tree back in 1986. Back then there weren't all the online records that are available today. Back then genealogy was done through research trips, countless hours searching through old, dusty records, and lots of time and money. If you couldn't travel to where an ancestor had lived you had to actually sit down and write a letter asking for information and patiently wait until someone, hopefully, wrote back.

In the 1990's I started tracing the Diefendorf-Norris Family Tree because little was known or recorded about Ken's family. I had to stop all my research when Ken became sick because he was my main priority. Records got misplaced; and a home break in a few years ago didn't help any. Many of my records, documents, and pictures were lost or damaged and are gone forever. Time and money won't allow me to even try to replace them.

Even so, I'm bound to recreate what I can, mostly through online searches, so that something is recorded for these families.