Welcome to Slonneger territory

The goals of this site are to provide access to the genealogy of Slonnegers, Kinsingers, Birketts, Ellsaessers, and their ancestors and old photographs and to communicate interesting blogs, links, books and movies.

Genealogy

The genealogy section provides access to family cards linked to their parents for navigation. There are over 1700 families and 2400 people included in the family cards. There are pedigree charts available that apply to my cousins that can be viewed or printed. The Human Migration link takes you to a chart of the migration (my maternal ancestors) from the first humans based on my DNA sample submitted to the National Geographics Genograhics Project. A detailed analysis is available also.

Photos

Photo albums include old pictures of our ancestors and the palces they lived. Photos albums of Slonnegers, Kinsingers, and Ellsaessers are included as well as photos of Albert Slonneger's autograph book dated from the 1870s.
We took a river cruise in Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg in May - June 2010. Photos from that wonderful trip are here.

Books

The section on books is still under development.

 

Favorite Quotations:

	This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in. Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, IL, June 17, 1912
	Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Dr. Carl Sagan
	Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of peoples by the mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships. Andrei Sakharov
	It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. —  In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Charles Darwin
	There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington, address to Congress, January 8, 1790