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This site is about one Finison family, which is descended from Lorenz Fineisen, who emigrated from Liptingen, Baden, Germany and settled in Michigan. Other Finison families in the United States, mainly in the Southeast, are unrelated and of Scottish or English descent (also spelled Finnison, Fenison).

Other prominent German branches include Wenzler (Balgheim) (see also the other database Wenzlers of Balgheim on this site), Villing (Böttingen), Ragg/Rackh (Renquishausen), Schleh/Schlee (Durrweiler), Bohnet (Obermusbach), Berner (Hildrizhausen), and Egeler (Nebringen), Rauleder/Rowlader (Münchingen), and Velte (Münchingen). For an overview of the German ancestry see the pedigree trees of Lorenz John Finison and Mary Ann Rowlader.

Other branches of the family tree include Van Aken (Netherlands->New York->Michigan); other New Netherlands families including Westbrook, Van Benschoten, DeWitt, Hornbeck, Decker, and Vernooy; quite a few English Colonial families such as Phelps, Adams, St. John, Hamilton, Clement, Knapp and Hibbard; the German Palatinate Hiesrodt/Heitzrood; Irish Hara; Newman from Leicestershire and Bushell from Warwickshire; and Bennett, Furrow, and Finton.

This site is run on PhpGedView. All details about living people should be hidden except to authorized users. If you have a problem or have any comments or feedback please contact Michael White. This site was last updated on 21 February 2008.

 
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Earliest Birth Year 467 Cerdic (unknown)  (I2418)  
Birth about 467 Of Ancient Saxony, Germany

Death about 534 Wessex, England
Latest Birth Year 2007 Details on this person are private.
Earliest Death Year 420 Clovis the Riparian (unknown)  (I2543)  
Death after 420
Latest Death Year 2008 Russell Charles Anderson  (I0317)  
Birth 2 September 1910 Pellston, Emmet Co., MI, USA

Death January 2008
Person who lived the longest 115 Sarah Gregory  (I3792)  
Birth 3 December 1652 New Haven, New Haven Co., CT, USA

Death 9 February 1767 Norwalk, Fairfield Co., CT, USA
Average age at death 50 (Largely due to many who didn't survive infancy.)
Family with the most children 16 Daniel Van Aken + Lea Kittle  (F0815)  
Marriage 15 December 1753 Ulster Co., NY, USA
Average number of children per family 1.99

Most Common Surnames
Adams, Belden, Bennett, Berner, Bohnet, Boneth, Clement, Cole, Colver, Decker, DeWitt, Egeler, Fineisen, Finison, Finton, Foote, Freeman, Furrer, Furrow, Griswold, Grossmann, Hamilton, Hara, Hibbard, Hornberger, Huss, Knapp, Meder, Middagh, Newman, Phelps, Quick, Ragg, Rath, Rowlader, Sattler, Schäfer, Schlee, Schleeh, Schleh, Smith, St. John, Terpenning, Van Aken, Van Auken, Van Bunschoten, Van Demark, Velte, Villing, Waltz, Wells, Wenzler, Westbrook, Westfall

Top 10 Longest-Lived:Sarah Gregory [115 years]; Oda (unknown) [107 years]; Justus Elihu Van Aken [107 years]; Timothy Phelps [105 years]; Benett Tornor [104 years]; John Gregory [104 years]; John Foote [104 years]; Helen Rowlader [104 years]; Luke Knapp [103 years]; Herbert Judson Schlee [103 years]

Top 10 Largest Families:Daniel Van Aken + Lea Kittle [16 Children]; Jakob Schleh + Christina Magdalena Grosshans [15 Children]; Christian Schleeh + Eva Gaiser [15 Children]; Johannes Schleh + Anna Maria Kalmbach [13 Children]; Christian Lutz + Maria Schleh [13 Children]; Johannes Schmid + Elisabetha Schleh [13 Children]; Jakob Villing + Maria Agatha Ragg [13 Children]; Wendelin Wenzler + Rosa Villing [13 Children]; Christian Meder + Anna Maria Leux [13 Children]; Johannes Huss + Catharina Hätvers [13 Children]
 
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More Schlehs Added
19 February 2008 - 9:57:31pm

My great-great-great-grandfather Johann Georg Schleh (aka John George Schlee) (1836-1861) immigrated to America from Durrweiler in 1852. I have been corresponding with Amy Jo Schleh Dayton, a cousin who has more information on descendants of the ancestral patriarch, Hanss Schleh (c.1615 - 1676), and who has provided me with two reports on Schleh descendants. Using these and other sources (mainly the FamilySearch International Genealogical Index), I have populated the database with many Schleh cousins. There are now 52 Schlee, 87 Schleeh, and 669 Schleh, plus some more descendants of other surnames.

Amy's immigrant ancestor was also a Johann Georg Schleh (1824-1904); he settled in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Another Johann Georg Schleh, born 12 years later, also lived in Ann Arbor, believe it or not. (There were a whopping 44 Johann Georg Schlehs in total.)

I have also added many more descendants of Johannes Berner and Johann Michael Rauleder in the past few months.
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