Friday, January 25, 2008

Peter's Death Certificate


Peter Seibert's Picture


Peter Seibert, Jr.
born 18 Sep 1843 in Killbuck, Holmes, Ohio
died 16 Apr 1921 in Plain Twp.,
Stark County, Ohio

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Free Genealogy Search Help

which helps you run targeted genealogical Google searches
Free Genealogy Search Help for Google
Get the Best Genealogy Searches for Google by Using Your Family Tree
This free genealogy site will help you use Google™ for your research. It will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" that will likely improve your results. The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google to find ancestry information on the Internet.
Just complete the small family tree in the above link for an ancestor and this site will set up the best searches for you, based on what you enter. Tip: If you don't know an ancestor's parents, but know one of the ancestor's children, use the child's name for the First Name and Last Name below (and spouse, birth, and death) and then enter the ancestor as the Father or Mother. This gives more information for building a search.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Great new FREE Resource

If you go to the New York Times site, you can enter your search terms in the bar near the top of the page and select whether you want to search articles since 1981 or before 1981. Once you have your results, you can select the Advanced option to limit your search to specific dates. The stories are downloadable as PDF documents. (If you happen across articles that aren't in the free years, they're $4.95 each, or you can get a monthly pass for $7.95 that allows 100 story downloads.)
I used a couple of Ohio place names and found real gold...many surnames, too. Try it.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Research comment

He who cares nothing about his ancestors will rarely achieve anything worthy of being remembered by his descendants. —author unknown

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Photo History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio


Photo History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio 1890-1920

http://hometown.aol.com/chattyk800/photos1900.html
Here you will find pictures of some of the old buildings in this county where so many of the Ohio SEIBERT families lived. Kathy has 130 SEIBERT names in her database.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Peter Seibert Family Tree descendants

Children of Peter Seibert and Katherine Hoffman:

  • Caroline Seibert, born 13 Mar 1869 (twin)

  • Phebe Seibert, born 13 Mar 1869 (twin)

  • Alice Ellen Seibert, born 06 Jun 1872

  • Frank L. Seibert, born 27 Mar 1875

  • Wesley J. Seibert, born 09 May 1876

  • Kertis Seibert, born 09 Jun 1878

  • Ida E. Seibert, born 25 Jun 1882

  • Flora Seibert, born Abt. 31 May 1884

  • Samuel S. Seibert, born 07 Aug 1889

There are so many other descendants of Peter with both of his wives that there is not room to list all of them. Here is the line of his son, Frank.


Children of Frank Seibert with first wife, Tyronna Day Hershberger:


  • Vernon A. Seibert, born 25 Mar 1902

  • Charles Seibert, born 25 Mar 1902

  • Herbert Leroy Seibert, born 19 Mar 1911

Children of Frank Seibert with second wife, Van Edith Ballard:



  • Leland Leonard Seibert, born 09 Feb 1920


This photo was taken 17 October 1924

Peter Seibert, Jr.

Louisville Herald, Stark Co., Ohio

21 April 1921

Peter Seibert died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.J. Snyder, at Middlebranch Saturday morning at the age of 76 years. He is survived by three sons and two daughters, Frank and Wesley Seibert and Mrs. Forest Shearer of Canton, and Mrs. Snyder and Curtis Seibert of Middlebranch. Mr. Seibert lived at Fairhope for many years and was well known in this vicinity. Funeral services were held at the Snyder home, on Monday afternoon, Rev. P.H. Welsheiomer officiating. Interment was made in the Rowland Cemetery at Canton.

Monday, July 23, 2007

A Short History of Peter Seibert, Sr.

A short history of Peter Adam Seibert, patriarch

  • 1820 Peter was born Jan 28th in Ransweiler, county of Kaiserslautern, Bavaria, Germany to Johann and Marie Margarethe Haas Seibert.

  • 1842 After his father's death in Germany, Peter and his mother came to America and settled in Holmes County.

  • 1843 Peter married Magdalena Elizabeth Rausch on March 29th. Peter and his family lived in the Winesburg area of Holmes County for a few years.

  • 1847 The family moved to Killbuck Township in Holmes County and bought a forty acre farm there.

  • 1860 They moved to Tuscarawas County. In the Ragersville section of the county Peter bought a farm. That area today is still called Seibert's Hill.

  • 1865 Magdalena died

  • 1866 Peter married Margaret Hochstetler Bixler, widow of Christian Bixler and mother of two. They had 6 children.