My Family Tree
Over the last 30+ years we have compiled a history of both my and my wife's families. You may search the combined surname list. The entire tree contains over 5700 individuals and over 1700 families. I am still searching several of the lines and will update these pages as often as possible.
Quest for my past
When I started computerizing my family tree I used 'Gene' by David and Diana Eppstein. This was a great shareware program well worth the $10 fee. After about a year and a half my tree had outgrown the program, I needed to produce more complex reports and trees. After reading many reviews and trying all the demos I could, I decided to use Reunion by Leister. This program is very flexible and allowed me to import the data I had already compiled. To create the family web pages I used a combination of techniques. Most of the family pages were hand written and edited from my files. Reunion has some amazing capabilities, you can even create relative trees. They contain all people related to a person, including ancestors, descendents, and in-laws. I would recommend it to anyone!!
Cousins, Relatives and Others
Obviously compiling a family history such as this requires lots of help and assistance. I've been very luck to have the help of some great cousins over the years. I would like to thank the following people who have contributed to making all this possible:
▪️Reverand Donald Weber - the Runte cousin who started that side of the tree and was a great mentor
▪️Steve Gulgowski - a Runte cousin who has been a great help!
▪️Gordon Miller - a Miller cousin who gathered and shared the info on the early Millers in Canada
▪️Cynthia Schaefer - another Runte cousin who has her own web pages and has shared much information
▪️A.J. Murphy - yet another Runte cousin who visited the family home in Germany
▪️G. Rollie Adams - without Rollie's help I would never have connected our family to General Harney