Search for Names in the Family Tree

My complete family tree includes about 15,000 names. More than half of those people are known to be dead and are descibed in these Web pages. You can use this page to search by name for any people in the Web pages. People in the family tree who are not known to be dead or who were born less than 90 years ago are not described on the Web pages to protect their privacy. You can send me email if you have questions about the people who were not described here.

Special thanks to Robert Gentrner for hosting this page on his gentner.org web server.

Enter a name (one to four words or partial words) and click the Search button. You will receive a list of all people whose names contain the words you entered. The order of words does not matter. For example, if you enter der gentner, you will find people named both Derek Gentner and Theresa Gentner {Seider} [note the "der" in Seider].

Include variants of last name     Exact spelling
If Name Search does not work, try Text Search

Hints for using the Name Search page

• Upper and lower case letters are equivalent for this search, so it doesn't matter whether you enter Gentner, gentner, or GENTNER.
• Special letters. German and French names often contain special letters, such as "ç" or "ü". To search for names with these letters, use the equivalents shown below.
  

  Instead of	Enter
  Ä or ä	ae
  Ç or ç	c
  ë	ee
  É or è or é	e
  Î or î	i
  Ö or ö	oe
  ß	ss
  Ü or ü	ue

• The spelling of names can vary quite a bit, especially before 1900. Click the "Include variants of last name" radio button to automatically look for variants of the last name you entered. For example, with this option checked, searching for Maria Heary will also find Maria Hiry or Maria Hiery. Note that the search looks for variants of the right-most word in the line, so you can be clever and put the given name last if you want to look for variants of a given name. For example, searching for Winter Catherine would also find both Catherine Winter and Katharina Winter.
• Typical results of a search might be:
  Anna Maria "Mary" Lallemand {Boardway} (1842-1920) [1643]
  Elizabeth Mary Boardway {Kingsley} (1873-1940) [1639]

  Click on a name to go directly to their listing in the web site.

• Entries in the list that is being searched look like:
  Anton Amann (1822-D) [3] or
  Franziska "Frances" Amann {Fitzgerald} (1864-1932) [13].
  You can search for any part of these names, so searching for amann 1864- will find all people named Amann who were born in 1864. You can also search for a personal ID number.
• A special treat for advanced users familiar with Unix -- We are running a perl script that does a grep of the name list, so all the special grep characters will work.

Prepared by Don Gentner - 24 Jun 2002