Website Overview

Here's a three-minute video showing when and where my parents, Jeff Faulkenberg and Pam Graddy, and their ancestors have lived.

If you click "MORE..." under the contents menu, you'll find everything this website has to offer. The first couple of pages are a family tree and a brief history of our family, both going back to my sixteen second great grandparents.

Family history prior to that generation can be found on the next sixteen pages. Each of those pages has a picture of my second great grandparent, an extension of our family tree going back to that person's grandparents (with a couple of exceptions), and a full history of their traceable ancestry. My sixteen second great grandparents are...

Otto Faulkenborough & Mary Elizabeth Carr (parents of Marshal A. Faulkenberg)

Henry Joseph Georges & Anna Mariah McDermott (parents of Rosalia A. Georges)

Louis Joseph LaGrange & Sarah Henrietta "Sally" Cassidy (parents of Everitt William LaGrange)

Timothy Mary "Tim" Kelly & Ellen Theresa "Nell" Judge (parents of Blanch Catherine Kelly)

George "Frank" Graddy & Laura Jane Estes (parents of William Clarence "Bill" Graddy)

Ralph Frank Sheley & Carrie Evelyn Hall (parents of Mildred V. Sheley)

Washington "Logan" Smith & Amanda Louisa "Lou" Mezo (parents of James "Roy" Smith)

Christopher Columbus "CC" Broyles & Nancy "Florence" Clark (parents of Eva Fay Broyles)

The last few pages are basically a research paper I wrote about the origins of the Faulkenbergs of Perry County, Indiana in January 2021. Before then, we didn't know what country our last name came from. The short version is that it's Dutch. But if you want the full explanation of why that's true, you can access that on the last few pages of this site.