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In what apparently is to be a lifelong pursuit, we are researching Joy's family names of Downey, Fleming, Klahr, Mackey (McKay), Meierding, Phelan, Schultz, Walizer, Welsh (Welch), and Wolf; and Ray's family names of Dopp, Hall, Hunter, Jobe, Tennison, (Tennyson), and Weber. Visits to Salt Lake City's genealogy library have enriched our research considerably. So much new information prompted me to reload the surname database a while back,
but now I need to do it again. We now have over 4,000 persons in our research. Not complete, but we're working on it.
Joy's Downey, Fleming, Mackey, Phelan and Welsh relatives originated in Kilkenny County, Ireland. They came to the United States through Ontario and migrated south through Illinois and Kansas where some stayed for a while, marrying and having children. Most of them, however, eventually wound up in the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893 where they settled and where Joy's father was born. We have made some great contacts of Flemings here on the internet and filled in some gaps in information. Research in 2002 in Oklahoma filled in numerous details that were missing.
A Phelan relative found us and had a generation earlier than we did, plus he had already entered a "gazillion" 20th century cousins, etc. which merged easily into our database--what a gift. Each day's email may have a new surprise like this! Our research in Canada in 2002 gave us some confirmations of information that previously we had only heresay with no documentation. But we made no major breakthroughs on missing data, unfortunately.
Joy's Meierding branch of the family lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana where they settled after leaving "Prussia." Great-grandpa Meierding moved to Nebraska where he met and married Great-grandma. These are the first ancestors we have up on Web Pages with photographs from 1865 and forward. If you have a chance to take a look at them, we have Great-grandpa and Great-grandma Meierding's Marriage License from 1888, and a christening photo from 1865. A trip to the Allen County Public Library filled in a lot of gaps for the Meierding branch of the family and the Salt Lake Genealogy Library gave us even more.
Joy's Walizer ancestor was born in Pennsylvania, Schultz in Wisconsin, and Wolf was from Illinois. They all eventually wound up in Nebraska where Joy's mother was born. With my Walizer and Wolf ancestors, I have been unsuccessful in gaining any knowledge of parentage.
Ray's Tennison (Tennyson) family lived in Missouri with earlier roots in Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
Thanks to my internet postings, we have been contacted by many of his relatives, and our 2002 research in Missouri gave us great information several generations back on his Hall and Jobe ancestors. Research in 2000 in Wisconsin and South Dakota yielded information on Ray's Grandmother Dopp's family plus a meeting with hitherto unknown Dopp relatives in South Dakota in 2000 and in Oregon in 2001.
Ray's Weber relatives lived in the Chicago area with earlier roots from Germany, but we don't have enough information to even respond to anyone who contacts us with anything other than an exact match.
We are plodding along in our research gathering bits and pieces as we go. We appreciate hearing from anyone researching these same families.
Our GEDCOM file is accessible by Surname to the over 4,000 individuals on file. Dates of living individuals are not published here for privacy purposes, but if you wish to verify anything and/or exchange information, I will be happy to do so via E-mail.
And please - visit us at our "other" home page.
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- Tennison Family Siblings - 1949 (35 KB)
Photo taken in 1949 of the children of John Franklin and Myrtle Hall Tennison. Standing left to right are Franklin Douglas, Herbert Victor, Joseph Estes, Richard Reuben, and George Raymond. Seated on the left is Nannie Myrtle and on the right Virginia Hall.
- Fleming Anniversary Photo - 1906 (56 KB)
Fleming 50th Wedding Anniversary - 1906
- Anna Bell Hunter Dopp Cole 1859 - 1953 (45 KB)
Anna Bell Hunter Dopp Cole was Ray's great-grandmother.
- Nellie & Tom Welsh, c. 1935 (30 KB)
Joy's paternal grandparents, Ellen Theresa Fleming and Thomas Patrick Welsh
- Minnie Dopp (Ulbrech) Weber 1887 - 1944 (29 KB)
Minnie Dopp, Ray's maternal great-grandmother was adopted by the Ulbrech family in Arcadia, WI.
- Catherine Meierding 1830 - 1916 (111 KB)
Joy's great-great-grandmother. Lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana after her arrival in the U.S.
- Four Generation Photo - 1999 (14 KB)
Photo taken October 1999 in Phoenix, AZ. Standing in rear are Beverly Kay Tennison Guevara and Raymond J. Tennison. Seated is Helen C. Weber Tennison holding Selina Sofia Guevara.
- Wedding photo of A.F. Meierding and Emma Schultz 0 (83 KB)
They were married on April 12, 1888 in Falls City, Nebraska
- Selina Sofia's Christening - June 1997 (76 KB)
Selina's maternal family. Left to right are Paul Tennison, Pamela Tennison, Gail Tennison, Monica Tennison, Mark Tennison, Beverly Tennison Guevara, Enrique Guevara, holding Selina, Joy Welsh Tennison, Raymond Tennison and Lloyd Tennison.
- Edna and Edward Meierding Family - 1913 (65 KB)
Edna Walizer Meierding and Edward Meierding with daughter Fern taken in late 1912 or early 1913 in Nebraska.
- 1933 Bathing Beauties (1108 KB)
Taken at a beach north of Chicago on July 9, 1933. Second from left is Fern Meierding and third from right if Virginia Morrow Meierding
- Four Generation Photo - 1943 (195 KB)
Photo taken on Gough Street in San Francisco, CA
Left to right, Andrew Meierding, Edward Meierding, Fern Meierding Welsh, and Joy Welsh.
- Four Generation Photo - 1963 (111 KB)
Photo taken on Lowe Avenue in Chicago, IL. Back row, left to right, Edward Meierding, Fern Meierding Welsh, Joy Welsh Tennison. Front children are left to right, Mark Tennison, Pamela Tennison and Lloyd Tennison.
- Fern Helen Meierding c. 1928 (95 KB)
Photo taken in the 1920's style in Chicago. Mom was quite the flapper!
- Joseph P. Welsh c. 1918 (73 KB)
Photo taken when Dad looks about eighteen years old, but could be later as he always looked younger than his years.
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