Klapperich Name Study

Profile managers: One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message] and Robin Rainford [send private message]

This profile is part of the Klapperich Name Study.

How to Join Please contact the project leader Robin Rainford or post a comment to the right. If you have any questions, just ask. Welcome to the project and thanks for joining!

Goals This is a One Name Study to collect everything Klapperich in one place-- everything about this surname and the various spellings. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.The goal of this project is to trace the Klapperich immigrants from Rhineland Pfalz in the 1800s to the United States, documenting the paper and DNA familial relationships of these immigrants to Johnsburg IL, Fond du Lac WI, San Francisco CA, Chicago, IL, and secondarily to Michigan, Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota.

Categories for Branches Find your Branch!

To make this list more user-friendly, we grouped our ancestor profiles by branch and by location. Each immigrant Klapperich and their direct descendants are categorized into branches or "Lines." Each line is named for the ancestor before immigration; for example, "Line Anton" groups the offspring of Anton Klapperich 1809–1887 who immigrated to Fond du Lac, WI in 1847. "Line Nieklaus" follows Anton's brother Nicholas or Nieklaus Klapperich, who arrived in Wisconsin in 1857 but settled his family in St Cloud, Stearns, Minnesota. This helps us manage DNA tests because we tend to genetically match others in the same branch.

There are also Categories by geographic location, both in Germany and the US. For Fond du Lac families who have lived in Wisconsin for generations, this makes sense as a finding tool. But many immigrant families tried several locations, such as Mitchell Iowa, before settling in. "Line Langenfeld" includes the Klapperich surname found in the church records (births, marriages and deaths) of St Quirinus Catholic Church in Langenfeld, Dist. Mayen, Rhineland, Germany.

Every Klapperich in America--to the last the GGG Grandchild, belongs to a Line, but no live people are listed in WikiTree. Can't find your line? Send a note with what you know and we'll help.

Team Members Members who have joined the project and are active include:

1. Sandie Schwartz is working on Johnsburg Illinois and Line Langenfeld.
2. Terri Klapperich Hotke was a Line Anton descendant.
3. Uwe Kruse is providing records from German sources.
4. Vickie Luce Sippel is from Line Anton in South Dakota
5. Kimberly Klapperich specializes in Michigan area descendants
6. Robert Mehregan whose mother was a Klapperich genealogist and traces his line through Nebraska.
7. Jim P Klapperich is from Line Nieklaus, in Stearns County Minnesota.
8. Jill (Klapperich) Guth is also from Line Nieklaus in Stearns County.
9. Angela Kampmann is from Line Dionysis through Mildred Klapperich in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Keep in mind that this is a Wiki, so collaborating on a single global tree is our commitment.

Task List

Here are some of the tasks that are finished or in process. I'll be working on them, and could use your help.

• Identify each immigrant, ancestors in Mayen Koblenz Germany, descendants in the US, DNA relationships among living descendants.
• Identify and recruit living representatives of each branch who are knowledgable and willing to review, clarify, correct errors
• Create easy to read summaries of the immigrant experience of each branch that are publically accessible.
• Continue recruiting and corresponding on a private Facebook Klapperich Group page to interest those who have no genealogy experience or interest.
• Collaborate with researcher Uwe Kruse of Hausten Germany, who has extensive and high-quality histories of the branches prior to emigration.
• Organize or delegate 'find your roots' trips among those interested.
• Share records/photographs/other resources from your family archive
• Fully Include those affiliated families who are not named Klapperich or Klapperick or Klaprich but have ancestors tied to this family.
• Update and document public genealogy records in sites such as Familysearch, My Heritage, Ancestry to remove errors.

Research Notes

This project is based on the extensive research of Uwe Kruse, a German researcher who has documented all emigrants from his focal area of Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany.

Will you join us? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send a private message. Thanks!