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Recently Unearthed Troublemakers Found!
The Daniels' bloodline had remained comfortably solved and silent for decades...until recent advances in technology allowed for instant trans-continental communication and lit up my web site with multiple, mysterious hits from the western United States.
I initially expected it was just the usual irritants from my Norwegian gene tree, via my mother's side, which had re-located several problematic descendants out across the whole continental U.S. from the original Minnesota and North Dakota homesteads. Most certainly, I NEVER ONCE expected to hear a pulse rate from the long buried corpse of the Daniels' fading Germanic bloodline.
Hmm...there are some very promising - AND LIVING - faces here!
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The Diedrich lineage is HERE.
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William Daniels, Son of Michael & Katharina Engelen
who married Martha Gruenhagen, Daughter of Henry and Marie (maiden name?).
Here is that tree waiting to be filled out:
| William Daniels | Martha (Maiden unknown) | ||||||
William was born in Carver County, Minnesota - one of nine known siblings; four brothers and five sisters. William may well be honored as the Daniels bloodline that "made it". When the Daniels arrived in Minnesota, they starting planting vineyards. I can assume that they were continuing a family Rhineland heritage - after all - you continue in what you were doing when you left the "old country". Naturally, I figured them for drunks...but when I looked more closely, I discovered that they were deeply Lutheran...without Communion Wine. This makes little likewise sense to us today, in a alcohol sensitive world - but communion wine was quite real prior to Prohibition. The only real communion bitter - was...and is fermented wine.
Suddenly, many things made predictive sense to me: the primary goal of Daniels' genetics (other than the usual conquest of lesser minds) was always to always plant their Faith - Germanic Lutheran (perhaps forerunners of American Missouri Synod) - deeply into the ground they claimed for 'family'.
It seems an obvious conclusion - growing vineyards for the Faith - the Communion Wine.
Communion was far more a solemn issue than today - and is only now, and rightly, becoming that way again.
This could prove to be quite a discovery.
Another blood obviously pulses through the Daniels lineage and that is one of faith and perhaps of success. The Christian faith has held this bloodline in an anchored tension - like an Olympian twisting a hammer-throw. I rejoice in celebrating the seed of William!
I can hardly wait for the words of William to appear...
...here.
