The Kaski & Untiedt Family Trees

In 1882, Heinrich "Henry" Untiedt, his wife, Magretha, and son, Paul Christian Sophius, lived in Hanerau-Hademarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Hanerau-Hademarschen sits in what is now northern Germany, in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, about 100 kilometers south of the Danish-German border. Paul Christian Sophius was born in 1870 in Alsen, approximately 20 kilometers to the east. Between Hanerau-Hademarschen and Alsen was located the village of Beringstadt, which had been the residence of Paul's future in-laws, Anna Wiebener and Jurgen Schwager.  During the last generation, the Untiedts had migrated away from their ancestral home in Schönberg on the Ostsee coast. Likely the migration began around 1858 when this Heinrich's father, Hinrich, was enlisted in to the Prussian army serving in Rendsburg. As a carpenter, Heinrich probably traveled south of Rendsburg for work. The Untiedts immigrated to the United States in two phases. First, in March 1882, Heinric...