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This one is the happiest man,
who can put the end into connection with the beginning.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832

 

Genealogy needs a lot of time. Every genealogist will be confirmed in this statement. The investigation of my ancestors already took much time. In many interesting conversations, with rummaging intensively in various church registers and archives and, not at least, in many nights of searching the world wide web I found a considerable number of ancestors till now.
The oldest known ancestor, a man named Johan Herman Schnepel, was born in Huellhorst in 
1683. Further "old" Schnepels in the neighborhood of Luebbecke were Vollmeier Hermen Schnepel (Huchzen Nr.3) and Brinksitzer Herman Schnepel (Bröderhausen Nr.26) (schwedisches Urbar des Amtes Reineberg, 1646) and even in 1441, Raterdt Sneppel. Why those men came to the eastern of westphalia, the meaning of their names is more likely to the north of germany, is still unknown. With them a variety of persons from a variety of generations complete the genealogical table. You can find brewers, teachers, doctors, merchants, parish priests, day workers, winegrowers, joiners, carpenters, smiths, cigar rollers, locksmiths and some other craftsmen. However, most of my ancestors earned their living with farming, one part as colons on their own farm, the others as so called “Heuersleute”. Over centuries these “Heuerlinge” moved to the Oldenburger Land or to Holland looking for seasonal work like making hay, cutting peat or fishing. Some ancestors from the Schnepel line went to Holland year by year between the seedtime and the harvest time to make some additional money with cutting grass (Hollandgaenger).
To which places the search for ancestors led and which names appeared you can get from the corresponding lists. For more detailed information regarding family relations or other genealogical questions, please fill in the contact form .




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