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.
JFK 50 Years Ago
John F Kennedy’s speech on Separation of Church and State, September 12, 1960 at the Houston Ministerial Association, is an appropriate reminder for today.
Favorite Quotations:
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. |
Favorite BLOGS:
Pharyngula - PZ Myers
Rationally Speaking - Massimo Pigliucci's web page and blog with the theme of positive skepticism
The Rogues Gallery - The Official Blog of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
Skepticblog - A collaboration of leading skeptics and promoters of science.
Neurologica - Neuroscience, skepticism and critical thinking.
Favorite LINKS:
The Science Network - "A candle in the dark" to enlarge the constituency of reason and to promote science.
PhysOrg - Science, PhysicsTech, Nano News
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
Americans United for Separation of Chlurch and State
The Genographic Project - A National Geographics Project to trace the human family tree and migration.
