We have a lot of genealogy information but are always trying to expand our reach. This page will direct you to some current topics of interest.

If you would like to submit genealogy data, here is an easy to use form. I suggest you scroll through the form to see what kind of information you will want to have handy before you complete the form.

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Here is where I will post genealogy puzzles and/or questions. Click on the link to be taken to the puzzle you want to view.

Sometimes we come across some gems we would like to share. At the beginning, these will be ad-hoc additions as I find something worth sharing. When I get enough of them, I'll have to actually organize this material. For now, just click on the descriptive links below.

Though it is far from complete, my database has a great deal of information about our family and those to whom we are connected in some way. Just as samples, I've posted a few charts here so you can peruse them. They are in PDF format, generally as one large page, so you can zoom in or out for more or less detail and otherwise scroll around. You can even zoom in far enough to see a fairly detailed image of the thumbnail pictures that appear along with the genealogical data for the person. I recommend you download the PDFs and view them with Adobe Reader 7 or later.

This file is an extensively bookmarked PDF that lets you browse through all of the descendants of Frans Joseph Stoessel (b. 1776). He is the oldest ancestor bearing the name, Stoessel, in our records.

Lucian Bahan is the youngest leaf on the family tree. The file is a simple pedigree chart starting with Lucian and going back 9 generations to Franz Joseph Stoessel. Since it is a pedigree chart, it also follows all other lines back as far as my records go.

Similar to the above chart for Lucian, this chart also shows siblings at all levels. It is not as easy to follow as the simple chart. You will probably want to refer to the simple chart as a guide to this one.

Now that you have warmed up a bit, here is a chart that will (or should) impress you. It is a simple pedigree chart, but it covers 11 generations. At the bottom of the chart is my granddaughter, Catherine Louise Stoessel. It, too, goes back to Franz Joseph Stoessel on that side of the family. However, on my wife's side (Catherine Louise Cummings) through the Keeney branch, it goes back to Joseph Keeney (1666-1759). The fact is, I have MUCH more data than that. I have data showing son-father-grandfather-etc., etc., etc., all the way back to William de Kene (William the Conqueror) who led the last successful invasion of England in the year 1066! The spelling of the last name has gone through some evolution (Kene to Keney to Keeney) overa period of some 500 years or so. By the way, Joseph Keeney had a son named Alexander who lived to be 106. It is said that up to near the end, he led his helpers as they worked the field.

This chart is similar to the one above, except that it shows siblings.

There are many groupings of pictures and other memorabilia. In some cases, I have produced  (or will produce) entire scrapbooks that have been saved. Where scanning is needed to reproduce these items here, I have been scanning at high resolution (800 dpi), 48-bit color. A single page scan with those settings is typically almost 400 megabytes! That's almost a CD per page. While I am preserving the highest resolution I have capability to do, I am downsizing the images so they can be uploaded to this web site and viewed by you.

When you browse through these images, you should be aware that you can get a close view by clicking on an image when you are viewing "thumbnails" of pages. The closeup should give you much better detail. Even that much detail may not be enough, so you have two more options.

1. You can download a 300 dpi version of the file. Note the name of the file and note the folder where the album is located. For example, the first album is creatively named PhotoAlbum01. When you are viewing pictures in this album, the http:// location (in your URL location box of your browser) will be http://stoessel.com/genealogy/photoalbums/PhotoAlbum01/. This will be followed by some additional characters that refer to a particular image being displayed.  A quick way to get to the 300 dpi images is to change your URL location by changing it to read http://stoessel.com/genealogy/photoalbums/PhotoAlbum01/hires/. This will involve deleting some characters and replacing them with "/hires/". Note: The final slash, "/", is important.
2. The other thing you can do is contact me for the truly highest resolution, the 800 dpi, 48-bit, rgb color Photoshop file(s).