52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 4 Prompt - Overlooked

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Week 4

Prompt – Overlooked

Lately I have been looking at other branches of my family tree. I started looking at The Doering Family. This is my maternal grandmother's paternal grandmother. My Grandmother McLaughlin mentioned her in her oral history and said she lived to the age of 81 and died of starvation due to the “the Russian Revolution”. I have blogged about her previously showing that due to this information I figured her date of death as 1921. Up til then there was never any date of death in any place, I looked including other Doering Family Trees. Her name was Elisabeth Barbara Doering and she was born 13 Feb 1840 in Warenburg, Samara Province, Russia. She married Johann Andreas Krikau in 1875, I have always followed the Krikau side of the family and left the Doering line alone. It was not so much overlooked as I couldn't find much information about The Doering's. I was surprised that coming back to investigate her again (a few years later) that much progress has been made on The Doering's through other family trees.

This is what I found.

Hans Wolff Doering

der jungere

[1600 -1673]

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 Adam Doering

[1629 - 1716]

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Valentin Döring

[1663 - 1730]

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Adam Doring

1703 - 1762

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Johannes Döring 

[ 1748 - 1798]

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Johann Magnus Döring

[1778 - 1844]

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Johann Friedrich Döring

[1818 - 1887]

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Elisabeth Barbara Krikau (born  Doering)

[1844 - ca 1921]

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Andreas Krikau

[1879 - 1946]

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Maria Katherina Sullivan (born Krikau)

[1903 - 1989]  

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Lydia Vivian Peters (born Sullivan)

[1922 - 1987]

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Wendy Kathleen Hoffart (born Peters)

[1954 - Living}

11 Generations dating back to 1600. Or my 9th great-grandfather.  Hard to believe this.  It is awesome.

Wendy