vom Saal family history
vom Saal family history
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This website is under development. Many links still need to be fixed.
This section of the website is an attempt to organize and make available to others a large collection of photos and documents that relate to family history.
Narrative descriptions of our family history and various photos and documents will be added to this website (the one you are looking at now).
Family photos, and photos of family history documents, are on my photos website at WaltervomSaal.com. The photo website also contains some narrative information. That website and this website are designed to work together, since narrative and text work better on this website, and photos are easier to upload and maintain on the photo website.
Below are links to the following major subsections of the photo website:
Max Schaefer, Schaefer beer and the Schaefer Brewing Company
Other links
Other links
Link to the earlier vom Saal Family History website that I developed many years ago and has not been significantly updated since 2009. My hope is to gradually transfer that information to the new website at WaltervomSaal.com.
Family Crests and Coats of Arms (old website)
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website.
Artifacts and Family Heirlooms (old website)
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website.
Photograph Albums (new website)
I have two very large old velvet covered photo albums with photos of many family ancestors. All of the pages have been scanned or photographed, photos have been edited, and keywords, titles, and captions have been added. They are available on the new website.
4/12/2024: Blue Velvet album. I uploaded the Blue Velvet photo album to WaltervomSaal.com. Includes 26 photos dating back to the 1880s. Added keywords, titles, and captions.
4/13/2024: Red Velvet Album. I uploaded the Red Velvet photo album to WaltervomSaal.com. It includes a total of 299 photos dating back to the 1880s. Includes 43 full page photos, 38 photos of handwritten explanatory notes, 218 photos of the individual photos in the album. I edited all the full page photos, added Titles to all photos, and added many keywords.
Church record from Germany dated 1786
Historical Documents (old website)
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. – A set of old documents including baptismal certificates, marriage certificates, and other church records from Germany.
Historical Documents (new website)
4/2024: Many of the documents from the old website are now on WaltervomSaal.com. Photos have been edited, keywords have been added, and some materials have been reorganized.
Memorial book of Friedrich Heppenheimer (old website)
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. This memorial booklet was published after the death of Friedrich Heppenheimer on April 20, 1878. It includes testimonials in German and English. Friedrich Heppenheimer was my grandfather’s father’s father, born in Crumstadt Germany in 1826.
Also available is a translation of the biography of Friedrich Heppenheimer and a photo. For more information and photos, see the Historical Documents section of the old website.
Genealogy Charts and Family Trees (old website)
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. But note new copy of old family tree from 1707 book (see below)
Kneeling Knight (old website)
Link to one section of the earlier vom Saal Family History website. BUT see below for a new set of photos.
Photos and information about the “kneeling knight” monument in the Cathedral in Worms, Germany. Link to my OneDrive folder with more recent photos of the “kneeling knight” who may or may not be our ancestor. These are better photos than the ones on my old website – they were taken when Suzanne and I visited Worms Cathedral in Germany in 2010.We may or may not be descended from him. I need to add more about that.
Original Schaefer Brewing Company, 19th and Broadway in Manhattan, 1842
The Schaefer Brewing Company was founded in 1842 by Frederick and Maximilian Schaefer. The company made Schaefer Beer and at one time was one of the largest brewing companies in the country. Max Schaefer was my great-great-grandfather. Information includes:
some photos of Max Schaefer.
a brief history of the Schaefer Brewing Company that includes a few main dates and events.
a description of the relationship between Max Schaefer and the vom Saal family.
a book about the history of the company that was published on its 100th anniversary in 1942.
This includes photos and information about the vom Saal property in Sharon Springs, NY, which was in the family for over 100 years. This property, called “The Park” at the northern end of the small village of Sharon Springs, formerly included bath houses, the main house, a bandstand, a tennis court, a barn converted to include a caretaker’s home, and the iconic “Magnesia Temple” which still stands today. I visited it often as a child.
Also see the video of the house in Sharon Springs made by my niece Jennifer Decker when she was young.
Also see the historic photos of Sharon Springs from my old website.
1707 book with old family trees
We have a copy of an old book published in 1707 that shows family trees of families in Germany. It includes a family tree of the von Heppenheim vom Saal family with entries from years 1019 to 1684. These photos have been updated from the ones in earlier locations.
New location of 1707 book with old family trees.
Old photos to be deleted: images on my old family history website.
Old photos to be deleted: images on my OneDrive.
Photos of family gravestones from locations in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY. They may be useful in determining or confirming dates in our family history. Also included are maps of the cemetery with information on locations of several family plots.
Family gravestone photos have been moved to a new website at www.WaltervomSaal.com.
The direct link to the gravestone photos is:
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