Posts in October 8, 2026

Can’t these women named Elizabeth (or Anna Elizabeth) marry into families other than ones whose last names start with “Her?” Johannes Herbert, Henry Herzog, Fred Herold, and Lewis Herold all married into two generations of my Trautvetter family…and their spouses were named either Elizabeth or Anna Elizabeth. I made a chart to help me keep them straight. Even if I don’t refer to the chart that often, making it helped me to separate out the individuals in my mind. This is one thing that has to be made by hand as most software packages don’t have a “make a chart of people who confuse me” option. And I thought one of these families had a connection to a man named John Herold, but I cannot find that connection […]