311 – Meet the Cheneys

We’ve written stories about three of our ancestor family pairs – Jarvis/Webb, Teply/Kloppenberg, and Gallagher/Riley. We’re exploring one more family pair – Cheney and Maninger.

In our last series, we followed our Maninger family from 1700s Germany to 1920 Kansas.

Now we’ll turn to stories of our Cheney family.

In this series, we’ll follow the Cheney family from their arrival in colonial Maryland in the mid-1600s, tracing their path through land grants, settlement records, and family trees. Their legacy begins on the banks of the South River, in a province founded on religious tolerance and new beginnings.

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309 – Maningers 1920

We’ve come to the end of this series of stories. We’ve followed our Maninger family from 1700s Germany to 1920 Kansas.

In our previous story, Emily Maninger graduated and became a registered nurse in 1920.

Here’s an update on the rest of the family, and some sneak previews of what’s to come.

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304 – Birth, Marriage, Death, Music

BMD (Birth, Marriage, Death) records are the stock and trade of the genealogist. They’re important, but don’t provide much context about our ancestors’ lives. Like most of our stories, this one includes Maninger BMD info.

Sometimes we’re lucky to find collateral stories, vignettes into people’s everyday lives. These enrich our understanding, and help us get to know our ancestor. This story features the importance of music in Maninger family life.

Harper Band Parade – September 1910
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