SchottLincolnHarrisJohn Web Site

My name is Ditie Schott and I started this site.This site was created using MyHeritage.com. This is a great system that allows anyone like you and me to create a private site for their family, build their family tree and share family photos. Our family tree is posted online on this site! There are 1698 names in our family site.Welcome to our site.  I am the site manager and Ditie is a nickname.  I was born Rachel Elizabeth John, to Deborah Elizabeth Harris (John, Gintner)  and Russell Fred John.  After they divorced when I was 8-years-old, we saw little of my father for several years and when my mother remarried  I was 12-years-old.  My step father Gary Joseph Gintner, adopted my brother and I and we took his surname Gintner, thus some of my public records show Gintner as my surname as well as John in places.  The same is true of my brother, Robert Harris.  He was born John then adopted Gintner.  He goes by the surname Gintner.  I am since recently reunited with my biological father and his family and appreciate having two fathers in my life, the one who loved and raised me and the one who wants another chance now.  I claim both ancestry trees as I am a Gintner by love and a John by blood.There is information here for my children's father's family which is the Schott and Lincoln lineage.  That is only information I know by my former marriage, but have sought to preserve for my children.  The Harris and Price line is that of my maternal Grandfather's parents who adopted him as their only child from the Saint Paul Children's home.  They are of Welch lineage.  Though I was a baby I loved my great grandfather "Tied."  He is as much my family as if we were blood related, so I will be Welsh in my heart.  Biologically, we are unable to access records until it has been 100 years through the state.  We believe possibly he is of Russian decent and possibly Jewish from word of mouth passed through family, however after doing some of my research, I believe they may have meant Prussian.  He was very dark complected with black hair and brown eyes.  His father was said to have been a WWI soldier who ran off to be an actor.  Some census records show his father to be from Nova Scotia, but they are a bit sketchy.  Other family accounts say that the mother was at the Saint Paul Children's Home with her parents and that there were other children, siblings.  They possibly settled in Southeast Minnesota.My maternal grandmother's ancestors Kemski/Kemske and Yetzer/Jetzer I believe both immigrated from Switzerland in the early to mid 1800's.  One of the families lost their baby, Maria, on the boat to illness which as my grandmother told me was awful.  They were packed together in large rooms lined up with bunk beds and people were sick all around them.  Several did not make it.  The baby's mother too was quite ill and another family helped take care of the children because she was so sick and trying to take care of the baby, but she did not make it.  I know there is more to this story, but it was so long ago and I cannot remember more details.My biological  paternal Grandfather has been a bit of a mystery.  His parents, Johann J John and Anna Maria Kieffer disappear about 1925.  The youngest children are given up for to the orphanage which is my grandfather and his brother at ages 8-years-old (Martin Joseph, my grandpa) and Sylvester age 10.  I know that Anna dies and Johann remarries briefly to a Mary Grunke, but he too seems to disappear.  I cannot determine his or Anna's final resting place as of yet.My biological paternal Grandmother's family Helmich and Klug are well represented but have some missing pieces going back to their immigration on the Klug side especially.My adoptive family is not very far yet.  But I am counting on my sister for help with that.The site was last updated on Apr 28 2024, and it currently has 4 registered member(s). If you wish to become a member too, please click here.   Enjoy!