Four branches of the family — the four grandparents of Thomas Kosmicki and Marlea Mahnken — each with its own searchable records, genograms, a zoomable timeline, and a migration map.
Prussian Poland → Illinois → Nebraska
Kashubian and Wielkopolska Poles who left partitioned Poland for Lemont, Illinois and the farms of Sherman and Perkins counties.
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Rhenish and Volga-German Catholic families — the Schmitt and Klein lines — who crossed to Illinois, Missouri and the plains.
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North-German forebears from the Osnabrück country and the Bremen coast, with Iowa kin, settling the Nebraska prairie.
Open this branch →Alsace, the Alps & the Volga → Nebraska
Alsatian, Swiss and German-American families — joined to the Meyers and Friday line — reaching back to the 1600s.
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