Wiederhold Web Site

My name is Gio Wiederhold and I started this site.The on-line tree now shown here was created June 2015 using a GED copy of my Family Tree Maker 2012 working file.This work was motivated by receiving around 1989 a set 12 volumes of a Wiederhold genealogy, typed and duplicated by Alfred Wiederhold in Kassel. The 7 principal volumes have been professionally scanned and converted to searchable pdf.  Genealogical charts from the remaining volumes have been scanned and are available on-line as well. All are now accessible and described at http://wiederhold.org.This 2015 tree on MyHeritage contains all detailed information from the 2 Felsberg and 2 of the 3 Homberg volumes. All data for Wiederholds that lived in or prior to the year 1800 were entered for the 3rd Homberg volume and the first of the 4 Verschiedene Orte Volumes.  Entries were validated as much as possible when creating the on-line tree. The tree here (GioMaster2012_Felsberg2015) was thoroughly updated and submitted July 2015. It has about 9000 persons with about 10 000 names, including many alternate spellings, common in historical documents.  When I find serious errors in the tree on MyHeritage I update this copy, but many other errors will only be reflected in the new version.This tree also includes material due to MyHeritage SmartMatches, where I checked the match, but did not always go through all of the relatives that can then be extracted. That means there are some entries which are not in my working tree and have not been thorougly checked.However, I have been working on a new, more comprehensive Wiederhold tree, It is now (summer 2019) undergoing validation.  I have been able to obtain many more documents, inabling my direct ancestry to be traced to 1220. That source data is also available at Wiederhold.org. It has all the remaining entries from the Alfred Wiederhold data, often validated by churchbook information I have been able to obtain.urrent data is being validated and extended with information from the current 185 volumes of The Deutsche GeschlechterBucher (Starke Verlag, available as 26 DVDs),  two DVDs containing the Netherlands East Indies Almanaks and Namenregisters from the Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (CBG) in The Hague, Holland, and a wide variety of Internet Sources, always cited. I have also entred into the new tree much data from Ewald Frankenberg's Ortsfamilien Buecher der Gemeinde Kefferhausen and Dingelstad, as well as abstracts from neighboring towns. They provide details on over 2000 Wiederholds that lived  in the Eichsfeld region of Germany and their complex intermarriages in that town.Specifics of these citations appear in a dedicated field for this genealogy, shown here as "Alfred Wiederhold Generations". The top-level citations refer to Book volumes and sections of typically about a dozen pages. Page and generation numbers within those sections are recorded in the Alfred Wiederhold Generations entrries, since the format provided in FTW would have been overwhelmed.I also enter, with an explanation, estimated `About' birth years when no records are available. In general they are based on 25 years between generations, 1 year between marriage and first child, and 2 years between siblings.  This information helps in matching when there are many entries with the same name.That source information is now avalable on-line, at Wiederhold.org/Sources.  My current task is to get all pre 1850 Wiederholds from those books, as well as frm other collected sources I have into my working files, and then publish that tree again on MyHeritage. A copy of the current working version is now on-line at Wiederhold.org/WiederholdTree.It has now over 37,000 entries. My specific intent is to show all Wiederholds born before 1850, their ancestors on the matrilineal side. as well as links to current Wiederholds that I am aware off.  That means many Wiederholds in the range from 1800 -1900 are included as well.In published trees entries for people that might still be alive (born after 1915 and no death date known) were privatized and now appear as `unknown'.  Contact me if you want specifics.An intermediate copy of the working Wiederhold genealogy has been integrated into a large genealogy published by Ruud de Ruiter on Geneanet. But there I cannot correct errors.In the on-line tree is also data on my mother’s family, Tuybens and Punt, largely collected by my cousin, Loes van der Beuge, and again validated with CBG information and extended. I am continuing to maintain teh Tuybens and Punt trees on MyHeriyage, but with extreme care. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A recent (2020) update of MyHeritage encourages users to add substantial subtrees to their genealogies with a second click, without a means to look at the individual entries. That is likely to make its contents less reliable. Children with alternate spellings are routinely replicated.- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I have received important assistance from Dutch and Swiss genealogists. I decided to avoid Wikitree, because their policy does not allow making changes and corrections, which is not acceptable to a researcher.  Similarily, the Geni worldwide tree provides much information, but the data entered have to be used with care.Enjoy, and do inform me of errors and desirable additions. While on validating the 2019 tree for publication I may not respond rapidly, so that I can focus on that task. Gio Wiederhold.  updated 4 feb 2021, gio@earth.stanford.edu