This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jtteske28 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/237.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I moved the Leopold Teske information to MyHeritage: http://www.myheritage.com/site-187741632/teske-family Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jacobteske5141 Surnames: Teske Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/251/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My name is Jake and Im looking for information on my GGG Grandfather Herman Elder Teske who immigrated here from Germany on May 28th 1864. Once he arrived he married Ernestine Gruenberg. They had 1 daughter, Emma Teske. And 5 sons, Albert, George, Herman, Louis, and Eldore Teske. I have detailed information on Albert Teske's family and some info on Louis's family. I am looking for any info leading back to Germany, or any information on the Teske's life in America. Please comment on this thread or email me at jacobteske514@gmail.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jacobteske5141 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/221.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: my g g Grandfather had a brother named Herman who was born on July 4th 1873. If any one on this message board are still on here and would like to share info with me my email is jacobteske514@gmail.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jettesk Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/101.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My gggrandpa was Christian Teske, b 1802 inTreptow am Rega. Now Poland. His father may have been Christian also. Could Johannes and Christian been brothers? My Christian m Dorthea Tanke 1826. Her father mother Christian Tanke & Dorthea Runge. They came to Wis. 1856/ Alaska Wis. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jacobteske5141 Surnames: Teske Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/229.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, I am also Martin Elder Teske's GGG Grandson. My GG Grandfather is Albert Teske. I am currently stuck on my family tree also and was wondering if we could share information. The farthest back I have gotten so far is Martin and Ernestine. My grandpa= Duwayne Teske My G Grandpa= Adolph Teske My GG Grandpa= Albert Teske i am willing to share anything that i have if u can help me. if u are interested in sharing with me, email me at Jacobteske514@gmail.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jettesk Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/221.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If you are still around my g grand had a brother Herman b 1832, Treptow, Pomerania. Emigrated with parents 1856 to Alaska Lake, Wis. Had a farm there, Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

(continued) My grandfather Johan>John Teske was a heavy carpenter (Zimmermann) who put in the beams which supported the galleries in the anthracite mines. He and wife Caroline Brenner Teske had two daughters and five sons, the youngest of whom was August Teske. Uncle August's son, my cousin Donald, moved to Connecticut and spent his working life with Sikorsky Helicopters. I haven't been in touch with him and his family save for an e-mail flurry and a phone call some ten years ago. He was living then, I believe, in the vicinity of Hartford. If he is still alive, he would be eighty or eighty-one years old. I believe he had/has a son also named Donald. Janet, if any of this suggests a Posen>Pennsyllvania>Connecticut connection, I shall be glad to provide more information about the PA Coal Region Teskes. I am now eighty-one, a retired college teacher and administrator, living in the Great Pacific Northwest. Charles Bahn Teske (named for my mother's father) Ph.D. 2424 Otis Street SE/ Olympia, WA 98501 (tel) (360)357-5697 _teskecb@aol.com_ (mailto:teskecb@aol.com) In a message dated 7/16/2014 11:31:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, gc-gateway@rootsweb.com writes: This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: janetcassarino Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/230.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Jon, I wanted to let you know that there is also a John Teske in Connecticut, my uncle. I've been trying (and failing terribly) to trace my Teske ancestry. It seems there are a lot of Teskes in the midwest, but not too many of us in Connecticut other than my immediate family, and we're not very big. I have been trying to find out if there is any connection between the Wisconsin and Illinois Teskes and the Connecticut ones, but I haven't found anything yet. Do you know if there is any connection? Take Care, Janet (Teske) Cassarino Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TESKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Janet, I have read your correspondence with Jon Teske. He has been the most reliable commentator on the wanderings of those bearing the name, and he is right about the preponderance of immigrant Teskes in the midwestern and north-central states. I belong, however, to a family which came over in the late 1880's and early 1890's, settling in Plymouth, PA In a message dated 7/16/2014 11:31:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, gc-gateway@rootsweb.com writes: This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: janetcassarino Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/230.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Jon, I wanted to let you know that there is also a John Teske in Connecticut, my uncle. I've been trying (and failing terribly) to trace my Teske ancestry. It seems there are a lot of Teskes in the midwest, but not too many of us in Connecticut other than my immediate family, and we're not very big. I have been trying to find out if there is any connection between the Wisconsin and Illinois Teskes and the Connecticut ones, but I haven't found anything yet. Do you know if there is any connection? Take Care, Janet (Teske) Cassarino Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TESKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I felt I just had to respond to this conversation. I, too, am searching for my Teske relatives. I have been searching for many years and still have not found any connections. I have gotten as far back as 1838 when my gggrandfather, William Teske, married my gggrandmother, Justina Prill in Nakel, Prussia just west of Bromberg. It was from Nakel that my family moved around in what is now Poland , from Sompolno where my ggrandfather, Gustav Teske was married to Karoline Koenig, to Ruszkowo Kr.Kolo to Tarnow where my grandfather William was born. His baptism was from Kruschwitz in Posen, to Volhynia and back to Nakel from where in 1892 they set off for Canada through the port of Hamburg. They settled here in Saskatchewan, Canada where I grew up. I feel that there were some Teske relatives around Nakel as they went back there before they immigrated to Canada. It has been said that they had relatives in Pomerania but I have not any documentation to prove this. Would love to make some connections and would answer any questions you might have. Joan (Teske) Meyer from Saskatchewan, Canada. -----Original Message----- From: teske-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:teske-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of gc-gateway@rootsweb.com Sent: July-16-14 4:52 PM To: teske-l@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TESKE] TESKE religious affiliations This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jdteske1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/230.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Janet, I actually am one of those Midwest transplants to the East Coast. I am originally from Wisconsin and came here to Maryland 50 years ago to work in the Gov't. I have not encountered any Teskes from New England personally. The few I've met here (very few) either have Midwestern roots as I do, or are an isolated few from Virginia where there are a couple of German settlements. Most of the ones I know seem to have a similar pathway. My ancestors came from Prussia, which no longer exists, and they came from the Prussian Provinces of Posen (where mine emigrated from), Pomerania, and Mecklinburg. About 10 years ago I ran into another John Teske (thought I am J-O-N....my mom always marched to a different drummer) who is an officer of the Germans from Russia Society. He had records of some 200 Teske families in the Netze River Valley (today on the border between Polish Poznan province and Pomarania (see below.) His village and mine were about 20 km apart. These people, a! nd many other Germans likely came from the Baltic coast originally, but in the 1700s were recruited to drain swampland in this river valley for agriculture. This draining was made possible by the building of the Bromberg Canal which reversed the flow of this river. Once the land was reclaimed many remained where they were the "middle managers" on this land on behalf of Polish nobles. (Middle Manager is a relative word...it means they were not Polish serfs.) When conditions got bad after various Napoleonic Wars, and the Revolution of 1848, many of these people looked elsewhere and some even looked elsewhere 50 years earlier. If a person had some money saved to afford passage, they came to America where the was free land in the Midwest (this is my family's story.) If they didn't have money, they took up the offer of Catherine the Great (herself a Prussian princess) who recruited Germans to populate lands in present day Ukraine, Moldova, and old Russian provinces of Volhynia! , Bessarbarabia and others which Russia had conquered from the Turks, but which actual Russians were wary of settling, based upon earlier histories with the Turks. My ancestor, a blacksmith, had a cash income and a trade and went directly to Wisconsin in 1864. The other John Teske's family went to Russia where under Catherine they enjoyed autonomy, the preservation of their culture, language, religion etc. When later Tsars reneged on these freedoms many of these "Volga Germans" later (1890s to start of WW I) came to the US and Canada where they mostly settled in the Dakotas and Prairie Canada since that was where land was still available. Now to complicate matters even more, these areas of what became the east parts of a unified Germany (1871) were ceded to Poland after WW II as reparations so all the names have changed. Posen became Poznan, Pomerania became Pomorza, the city of Stettin (where a maiden aunt think was the original place my family came from) became Szeczin and the Netze River became the Notec River. The Poles took over and k! icked all the ethnic Germans out. My village which was Helldorf became Heliodorowo and the regional town of Samotchin became Szamocin. A great many Germans, particularly those with Midwest roots are in this category. There never was a big German settlement in New England, as the Germans were mostly farmers and most assuredly not fishermen. They weren't miners either which is why you don't see eastern Germans (not the old GDR Germans) in places like Pennsylvania in great numbers. These were often settled by Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, areas in Europe with a lot of mining. So unfortunately I can't help you directly. I think you and your uncle are the first New England Teskes I've ever heard of. I actually have not traced any Teske's in Wisconsin....and there are a fair number there, other than my own family, though I have explored this with other folk there with the name. The name is still somewhat common in Germany. [The last person legally executed in Western Europe w! as an East German spy named Werner Teske who was shot after he tried t o defect. Google that name, it is an interesting story. (Well interesting to me, since I worked in US Intelligence for 35 years.) I'm happy to share whatever info I know, or at least some of the historical background. BTW the name Teske is a patronymic derived (along with about 50 other German surnames) from the construct "Son of Mathis or Matheus." One was a Disciple the other the Evangelist (don't remember which was which.) This is a distinction not made in English where both biblical personages come out as "Matthew." Jon Teske Olney, MD Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TESKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jdteske1 Surnames: Teske Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/230.2.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi again Janet, The various immigration boards and data bases are terribly unspecific about where people came from in Europe. The most common of these was actually edited by a colleague of mine, Vera Filby and her husband (whose name I forgot, both are now deceased.) Vera Filby was my instructor early in my career in Intelligence Reporting. I worked for NSA (back when we played by the rules, I retired before the present commotion although as you might imagine, Edward Snowden is no hero for me. BTW....NSA is the "funny thing which happened to me on my way to becoming a schoolteacher in some Wisconsin Podunk." In college, I had never heard of NSA, the largest and most secretive of the US Intelligence agencies. They came to me when I was on campus. I was one of the few French (and also English) majors who was male (see the 1960's mindset here), straight, didn't do drugs who had learned two languages (the other was Italian.) I came to Washington two week after graduation in 1964 and was sent! to school to become an Arabic linguist, which I did for the first half dozen years of my career. I left languages when I was offered a management track (where I could advance higher), was a codebreaker, intercept planner, staff officer, went to Cuba seven times, worked in the US Embassy in Mexico City chasing Colombian drug lord....just the usual boring government stuff. I retired in 1999, am now 72, and keep very busy as a symphony violinist in high-level volunteer orchestras. The Filby's edited what is probably now a 20 volume or so transcription of the ship lists from Bremen...a major emigration port, as recorded in New York City. Our Germans came long before there was an Ellis Island so that resource isn't much of a help. My Teske family is recorded in one of those volumes and dispelled (along with later LDS records) a lot of family legends e.g. the eldest of my great grand father's siblings was born at sea during the voyage. I have birth records for her from German! y (thanks to that "other" John Teske) from two years earlier and even a stillborn to my immigrant ancestors some 4 months before they landed in NYC. A lot of these NYC records simply say "Germany" even though Germany didn't exist as a political entity for another decade when Bismarck unified most of the German-speaking kingdoms and principalities under Prussian control. Some simply list Bremen (or Hamburg, the two biggest embarkation port. My ancestors were listed as "Bromberg" [Present day Bydgoczsz, Poland] which we now believe was an administrative center where papers were issued giving permission to emigrate. (It also was where a train station was which would get them to Bremen.) I remember when Charlotte Teske won the women's part of the Boston Marathon. The NY Times, which we got in my office had a big sports page headline that "so and so won the [men's] marathon; "Teske Beats Women." So the wags in my office clipped the "Teske Beats Women" part of the headline (nothing to indicate what was "beat" and pasted it on my cubicle. LOL. That she was from Hamburg (she was a nurse by trade) means about as much genealogically speaking as my being from Washington, DC area does now. There was an awful lot of post- WW II resettlement and anyone who was an ethnic German in the Eastern third of pre-war Germany was displaced, expelled, an early example of ethnic cleansing. The Poles basically purged the land they got in reparations of anything German, probably with some justification. Many of the novels of Nobel Literature prize winner Gunther Grass, are based on the post war expulsion of the Gemans. So a lot of present day Germans are really from somewhere else. German sources I found in the NSA library from the 1930's when many people were VERY concerned how German they are (or specifically how "un-Jewish" they were) cite the Teske name as! a Slavic Short form of the "son of Matthew" paradigm, so over the centuries since Germans were beholden to adopt family names (13th-14th centuries) is is likely that many Teske's were a mix of Slavs and Teutons and as such likely to come historically from the eastern regions of German influence. My immigrant gggrandmother actually has a Jewish family name, Gruenberg [Greenberg in English] though I found Christian infant baptismal records for her. Our family appeared to be either Evangelisch (Lutheran in America) or Reformed which basically was a little more conservative form of Lutheranism. This was pretty typical for the northeastern parts of the German empire. Germans tell me that these provinces....Mecklinburg, Schwerin, Stettin, Pomerania, Posen, were sort of the "West Virginia" of Germany. Even in the former GDR, all the manufacturing, universities, culture etc. was in the areas south of Berlin (Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz) whereas the areas to the north and east of! Berlin tended to be somewhat backwards and poor...probably a good inc entive for our ancestors to get out. When I encountered this other John Teske a decade ago and knowing that he was president of a genealogy group, I fed him what info I had, and by dumb luck, my family was among those he had cataloged (to date we have not established any real family tie between us except some degree of proximity.) He had my immigrant gggrandparents church records nailed in LDS records, my gggrandfather's trade....a very long word that meant "pitchfork maker" which tied in nicely to his US trade of blacksmith. John conveniently lived just on the other side of the Potomac from me and we did lunch about a week after we met on-line. He gave me copies of the records he had and a bunch of monographs, some of which he wrote, from the Germans from Russia society. (He is originally from South Dakota.) Those monographs, while not specific to my family, did explain a lot of why there were there....and why they left. Nine years ago, John and I commissioned two Polish genealogists from Poznan city to go up to our villages and they came back with these photos http://www.grhs.org/chapters/gppr/teskephotos.html Heliodorowo is my family's village. Four-five km away is the small town of Szamocin where according to family legend my gggrandmother went to the Polish school (probably Catholic) so she could learn Latin. There are also some photos of the Notec River and the reclaimed land that apparently my ancestors had some role in developing for the noble Polish family of Racynskis. Heliodorowo is named for one of the Racynski sons, Heliodor. (The reclaimed land looks a bit like rice paddys when viewed on Google Earth.) I'm happy to correspond with you. We don't have to do this on the Ancestry board (I'm not really a member in the paid sense.) My "real" email is jdteske@verizon.net Jon Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: janetcassarino Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/230.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Jon, Wow! You have so much background information. Very interesting! Thank you so much for taking the time to share with me. From the information I have gathered, my ancestor that came to the US came to New Haven, CT from Schleswig-Holstein, a place called Dannau. However, I have always had the hunch that he did not actually live in that area, but simply emigrated from that point. I have absolutely no proof of that; it's merely a hunch. His name was August R. Teske (I don't know what the R stands for) and he allegedly arrived in 1880. His birthday is disputed, I've seen some sources that have it at 1862 and some have it at 1865. He and his wife, Mary (whose last name I have had difficulty finding but tentatively have it as Rochowiak) had six children Anna, Bernard, Mary, Helena, John, and Albert August (who is my great-grandfather). Albert August had only two children, my grandfather, Albert August, jr. and my great-aunt, Lorraine. My grandfather had three boys (one is m! y dad) and one girl, and they've all had children, so there's quite a clan of Teskes in Connecticut. However, I believe my great-grandfather (Albert August Sr.) only had one son who had any children. Bernard was never married and John died as a child. So there are quite a few additional decendents of August R., but they have different last names, some are Cabelus, Young, Gorneault, and some are Wodecki, amongst others. I just discovered a Paul Teske, who is a pastor in Connecticut, but is originally from Chicago. I haven't made any sort of connection to the midwest Teskes yet though, and given that you've said it was a pretty common last name in Germany, I don't have high hopes of discovering any sort of link, especially now that I've traced them back to Germany. I don't know where to go at this poing. My grandmother did tell me that my grandfather's cousin (another Teske) won the Boston Marathon one year, and I looked it up and a Teske won in 1982. Her name is Char! lotte and was from Hamburg. (According to my grandmother, my grandfath er had relatives in that area.) From everything I have found, it seems like she might still be alive, but I don't know for certain. Ah...anyway, this line of my family tree is one of the shortest and most frustrating. I keep hoping that one day I will discover something that helps. Janet Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jdteske1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/230.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Janet, I actually am one of those Midwest transplants to the East Coast. I am originally from Wisconsin and came here to Maryland 50 years ago to work in the Gov't. I have not encountered any Teskes from New England personally. The few I've met here (very few) either have Midwestern roots as I do, or are an isolated few from Virginia where there are a couple of German settlements. Most of the ones I know seem to have a similar pathway. My ancestors came from Prussia, which no longer exists, and they came from the Prussian Provinces of Posen (where mine emigrated from), Pomerania, and Mecklinburg. About 10 years ago I ran into another John Teske (thought I am J-O-N....my mom always marched to a different drummer) who is an officer of the Germans from Russia Society. He had records of some 200 Teske families in the Netze River Valley (today on the border between Polish Poznan province and Pomarania (see below.) His village and mine were about 20 km apart. These people, a! nd many other Germans likely came from the Baltic coast originally, but in the 1700s were recruited to drain swampland in this river valley for agriculture. This draining was made possible by the building of the Bromberg Canal which reversed the flow of this river. Once the land was reclaimed many remained where they were the "middle managers" on this land on behalf of Polish nobles. (Middle Manager is a relative word...it means they were not Polish serfs.) When conditions got bad after various Napoleonic Wars, and the Revolution of 1848, many of these people looked elsewhere and some even looked elsewhere 50 years earlier. If a person had some money saved to afford passage, they came to America where the was free land in the Midwest (this is my family's story.) If they didn't have money, they took up the offer of Catherine the Great (herself a Prussian princess) who recruited Germans to populate lands in present day Ukraine, Moldova, and old Russian provinces of Volhynia! , Bessarbarabia and others which Russia had conquered from the Turks, but which actual Russians were wary of settling, based upon earlier histories with the Turks. My ancestor, a blacksmith, had a cash income and a trade and went directly to Wisconsin in 1864. The other John Teske's family went to Russia where under Catherine they enjoyed autonomy, the preservation of their culture, language, religion etc. When later Tsars reneged on these freedoms many of these "Volga Germans" later (1890s to start of WW I) came to the US and Canada where they mostly settled in the Dakotas and Prairie Canada since that was where land was still available. Now to complicate matters even more, these areas of what became the east parts of a unified Germany (1871) were ceded to Poland after WW II as reparations so all the names have changed. Posen became Poznan, Pomerania became Pomorza, the city of Stettin (where a maiden aunt think was the original place my family came from) became Szeczin and the Netze River became the Notec River. The Poles took over and k! icked all the ethnic Germans out. My village which was Helldorf became Heliodorowo and the regional town of Samotchin became Szamocin. A great many Germans, particularly those with Midwest roots are in this category. There never was a big German settlement in New England, as the Germans were mostly farmers and most assuredly not fishermen. They weren't miners either which is why you don't see eastern Germans (not the old GDR Germans) in places like Pennsylvania in great numbers. These were often settled by Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, areas in Europe with a lot of mining. So unfortunately I can't help you directly. I think you and your uncle are the first New England Teskes I've ever heard of. I actually have not traced any Teske's in Wisconsin....and there are a fair number there, other than my own family, though I have explored this with other folk there with the name. The name is still somewhat common in Germany. [The last person legally executed in Western Europe w! as an East German spy named Werner Teske who was shot after he tried t o defect. Google that name, it is an interesting story. (Well interesting to me, since I worked in US Intelligence for 35 years.) I'm happy to share whatever info I know, or at least some of the historical background. BTW the name Teske is a patronymic derived (along with about 50 other German surnames) from the construct "Son of Mathis or Matheus." One was a Disciple the other the Evangelist (don't remember which was which.) This is a distinction not made in English where both biblical personages come out as "Matthew." Jon Teske Olney, MD Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: janetcassarino Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/230.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Jon, I wanted to let you know that there is also a John Teske in Connecticut, my uncle. I've been trying (and failing terribly) to trace my Teske ancestry. It seems there are a lot of Teskes in the midwest, but not too many of us in Connecticut other than my immediate family, and we're not very big. I have been trying to find out if there is any connection between the Wisconsin and Illinois Teskes and the Connecticut ones, but I haven't found anything yet. Do you know if there is any connection? Take Care, Janet (Teske) Cassarino Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: janetcassarino Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/78.91/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Shirley, I think we are looking for the same August R. Teske. The one you are talking about would be my great-great grandfather, I believe. Have you had any luck finding information on him since you made this post in 2000? Thanks, Janet Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dawn1020 Surnames: teske Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/250/mb.ashx Message Board Post: family for august and Amelia teske, Martha and amiel teske, Florence and otto teske, mabel and albert Frederick herman teske they resided in the Adrian, mi area in 1900's also Richard teske and Robert teske from clayton, mi please email me Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: birdsong002 Surnames: Teske (Arthur and or Nancy) Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi I am looking for Arthur and Nancy Teske. My parents (Tim and Masako Thomas) are looking for their friends that used to live next door to them in Lenexa, Kansas 20 plus years ago. Last contact was when Arthur and Nancy lived in AZ. Thank you. My e-mail is birdsong002@yahoo.com. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Bob_Teske Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/249/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Aunt Nancy, I'm writing this letter to you not knowing whether you are still alive or not. You have two brothers, Ted "Butch" Teske, and Bob Teske. Bob was my father. Theodore was my grandfather. Alta was my grandmother. Butch was my uncle, or still is, I don't know if he's even still alive. Lost contact with him after my father's funeral back in 1986. Like you, I too am in the dark about that side of the family. I have always been in the dark about the Teske side of the family. If you're still kicking, lets chat and see if we can bring some light back into our family. Your nephew, Robert K. "Bob" Teske, Jr. Bob.Teske@gmail.com 1-507-226-5988 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rebholzgary Surnames: Teske Zupke Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/154.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: "I am looking at the connection of Dorothea Maria Teske and Daniel Zupke ... Is your index arranged only by individual names and/or family connections, as well?" An out-dated printed version of the index is sorted by name and by date - about 2500 pgs. in each section. If reprinted today, each section would be 3700 pgs. (that's one part of my work). Reprinting is costly and silly when indexing can continue indefinitely and a protected, searchable file on a computer library terminal would do a better job presenting search results. As an index, working out family relationships is left to the researcher. I've used over 900 rolls of microfilm covering over 40 titles. Most, but not all, of the entries include reference information. The date version is almost more important than a name version. The name in a clipping may not be what you expect. As an example, your Dorothea Maria Teske Zupke could be listed in multiple ways, including only as Mrs. Daniel Zupke, or Mrs. D. Zupke. She is not listed in the index, but a Henriette Teske (née Zupke, survived by an Albert) has family death notices, Danksagung (thanks), and even death anniversary notices - a total of 12 clippings to choose from in 1913 & 1914. This is important because of the varying quality of microfilm, and even information found in the clippings, since their found in at least 2 German newspapers. An Albert Teske died in 1917, but I don't know if it's the same family. There are over 100 Teske, and about 20 Zupke entries or references in the most current list. Newspapers are classified as a secondary resource and my work is to feature Milwaukee's German language newspapers and how our families used them. Whether or not a researcher uses a newspaper name index as a vital records index is up to them. For me, it's about research in these papers, not data. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: margaretlochrie1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/147.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I would like to add to my above post. Recently I have found more info on my 3x greatgrandfather Wilhelm Teske and his family. When he and his wife Mary emigrated to Canada, they had a daughter Emilie who was a year old at the time (1861). As there is oral history of Emilie at least in my branch of the family I assume she either died at sea or is the daughter who is buried back of Miller's farm as told to me by Dora Teske Abraham, daughter of Fred Teske, and granddaughter of Wilhelm Teske. I also have the name of Wilhelm's first wife and mother of Anna Teske that info is added to my family tree Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: margaretlochrie1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.teske/147.4.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Ray just an update to your message, Alvina was born in Canada not Prussia, my 3xgreat grandfather Wilhelm Teske and his wife Mary emigrated in 1861, Alvina was not yet born. According to the ship's registry, the daughter that came with them is named Emilie and she is not a twin of Alvina. hope this helps Margaret Lochrie Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.