Link to my "Rödiger Family" tree

As promised, I have added a link to my family tree on Ancestry.com. This eliminates one frustration I have with sharing information through this blog--CONTEXT. By accessing the tree you can search for any individual and see the person and his/her family in the context of the whole tree. I think that will help all of us immensely.

Sorry, no pictures this time. But--
If you have an Ancestry.com account (even a free one), when you click on the newly added link "Rödiger Family" in the menu on the right of the Blog page, you will arrive at the Facts page for Johann Konrad Eichenauer. I chose him as the jumping on place because all Rödigers and Eichenauers who came to Auglaize or Mercer County in Ohio in the mid to late 1800s descend from he and his wife, Anna Katharina Jacob. From there, you can explore whatever and whenever.

If you do not have an account, I believe that when you click on the link, you will be directed to a page where you can sign up for a free account, or a paid account (Please correct me if I am wrong). The advantage of the paid account is that you will then have unlimited access to all records which ancestry.com holds and hints for said records are provided for anyone that you add to your own tree and any records I have cited will also be visible to you when viewing my tree. Once you have an account you can come back to the link provided on my Blog Home page for my Rödiger Family tree and join the fun.

What you will not see in my tree, whether you have a paid or free account are the details about persons that I have marked as "living". This is, of course, for privacy reasons. If you want to send a birthday card to all of your nieces and nephews, my ancestry.com tree will not help you figure out their birthdates. You will have to find out the old fashioned way--call their mom or dad ;)

Also, from now on, whenever I deem it appropriate, I will provide a link to the specific subject of any future Blog posts. Say, for instance, that the subject of a post was Johannes Weifenbach (which could very well happen soon. I could create a link like this: Johannes Weifenbach (Rödiger Family tree) which would take you to his Fact page in my Tree. This will save you from having to do a search from Johann Konrad Eichenauer's page each time and from having to endure lengthy background descriptions from me. It is a win-win.

Just a reminder for those who mostly just read the email of the Blog posts. At the very end of each email is a link to the full Blog page, including the menu on the side. The Link to "Rödiger Family" tree, as described in the first two paragraphs, won't show up in the email version so to access my ancestry.com tree you will have to click that Link.

Hope that you find this helpful,
Stephen Roediger