The Heydingers Leave Europe
This section will eventually be divided into the following sections and treat the emigration in considerable depth:
What prompted John Adam and his family to leave Europe?
Get yourself a cup of coffee before you open this one. It's about 14 pages of long but interesting reading of what motivated - forced - coerced the John Hedyinger family to emigrate from Merlebach in 1850.
This section deals with how John Adam may have raised the cash necessary to emigrate. It speculates upon John Adam's sources of income in Merlebach and whether he was more farmer or weaver. It recounts the calculations necessary to insure enough money to leave Merlebach, travel to Le Havre, sail to America,and purchase their first farm land.
Disembarking and the Actual Voyage - Work in progress yet.
Click on the first link above to begin the quest. As other sections are researched, they will follow. Enjoy and give us your feedback. Also, if you spot errors, omissions, or inconsistencies, let us know. If you want to argue any of the conclusions or facts, or just include other conjectures, let us know.
KEEP THIS THING GROWING!!!
This website is your chief source for information concerning the 2010 John Heydinger five-year reunion, aka "The Big One." While it may seem primitive right now, it will be constantly updated, so check back frequently.
The 2010 reunon date has been set for July 31 - August 1, 2010.
Saturday evening will have a Mass, celebrated by Fr Frank Kehres, at 7 PM. Dancing will follow and continue with good visiting and cheer till 11 PM - all at North Auburn's Mother of Sorrows Church. It's BYOB and all the munchies you can consume! Don't forget the ice, too.
And remember to drink responsibly. This message brought tto you by the Ohio Liquor Control Board, your insurance agency, and the Bishop of Toledo!
Sunday will be celebrated entirely in New Washington's St. Bernard's Parish Hall. Bring your goodies and family any time after 10:30 AM to register, visit a bit and set up for lunch. Dinner will begin promptly at noon. The committee will supply all table service ware. Plan on bringing a meat dish and a side, or casserole, or dessert, etc. and help put all past reunion spreads to shame!
Also, since the family auction was such a terrific fundraiser in 2005, we have decided to repeat this event. So begin now to create some object(s) which would be of interest to the family and have some monetary value at auction in order to help raise funds to throw the next big bash in 2015! That one will be our centennial celebration, and we need to do it up big - need a big war chest!
HELP!!! We need your HELP!!!
This is YOUR FAMILY WEBSITE. It will be successful only if YOU contribute. You do NOT have to be computer savy to help out. Contact us, and we'll git'er done!
We need Current Contact Information.
In order to keep all folks fully informed, we need CURRENT CONTACT INFORMATION: street addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.
Contact your siblings, your children away from home, your folks - anyone in the relation - to email us their current contact information. Send it to me at Mike_Heydinger@HuronHS.com.
If you are more comfortable with snail-mail, send any information to me at Mike Heydinger Box 112 Huron, OH 44839.
We need Family History Data.
Also, we would like to do a full page here of information on each branch of the original John Heydinger family. We will post histories of each branch, pictures as far back as we can get them, and any other interesting data about the branches - whatever YOU think ought to be up on the site. We ask you to send us digital files if possible. If you are not computer savy and still wish to make a contribution of materials to this site, please email us and we can arrange to either come to you or have materials shipped to us for scanning and then return to you.
PLEASE - on all pictures, identify each person with a recognizable face. If known, indicate the year and place the picture was taken. Protect your valuable pictures and documents with cardboard stiffeners!
We need Current Family Tree Information.
If you go to the FAMILY GENEALOGY TREE in the column to the right, you can open it by clicking on the RED words This Family Tree and locate your immediate family's limbs, branches, and twigs on the family tree.
The further back you go, the more accurate the information actually is. What we need most is more MODERN up-to-date information.
Locate your part of the family's information and update it for us, PLEASE. Email to us the new and improved data. Don't worry about formating the data. Just give us the names and important dates, tell us what generation they are in and under whose name they should go. Generation numbers are included just to the LEFT of each name.
In order to have the NEW information included in the revised tree, you MUST get it to us. We will maintain the original document in order to guarantee security. Sorry!