Hi. I was born in West Point, NE in 1977. I've lived in Amsterdam, Netherlands with my Iranian wife from 2011 to mid-2020 and since then in Dublin, Ireland.

Since Nov 2017 I'm actively trying to populate my family tree -- especially since I long ago missed my chance to learn the MASSIVE amount of family information only my father seemed to possess (he had a debilitating stroke in 2004 and died in 2014).

My family surnames of interest are:
Maternal: gp: Riesselman & Peppel.
1g-: +Determan & Bruning.
2g-: +Eischeid, Grote, van Beck (van Beek), Luchtel.
3+g-: +van Rossum, Assenbeek, van Sadelhof, ...

Paternal: gp: Michaelis & Toelle.
1g-: +Wostoupal & Pautler.
2g-: +Ruf, Herberger, Mueller, Motlik.
3+g-: +zum Bahlen (Simbalm), ...

My family hailed from:
Maternal: Mostly west/central Germany + Gelderland, Netherlands (Peppel + van Beek & van Rossum & Assenbeek families)

Paternal: Mostly far west Germany + Luxembourg (Michaelis) + Alsace, France (Pautler) + Bohemia, Czechia (Wostoupal & Motlik)

Hi. I was born in West Point, NE in 1977. I've lived in Amsterdam, Netherlands with my Iranian wife from 2011 to mid-2020 and since then in Dublin, Ireland.

Since Nov 2017 I'm actively trying to populate my family tree -- especially since I long ago missed my chance to learn the MASSIVE amount of family information only my father seemed to possess (he had a debilitating stroke in 2004 and died in 2014).

My family surnames of interest are:
Maternal: gp: Riesselman & Peppel.
1g-: +Determan & Bruning.
2g-: +Eischeid, Grote, van Beck (van Beek), Luchtel.
3+g-: +van Rossum, Assenbeek, van Sadelhof, ...

Paternal: gp: Michaelis & Toelle.
1g-: +Wostoupal & Pautler.
2g-: +Ruf, Herberger, Mueller, Motlik.
3+g-: +zum Bahlen (Simbalm), ...

My family hailed from:
Maternal: Mostly west/central Germany + Gelderland, Netherlands (Peppel + van Beek & van Rossum & Assenbeek families)

Paternal: Mostly far west Germany + Luxembourg (Michaelis) + Alsace, France (Pautler) + Bohemia, Czechia (Wostoupal & Motlik)