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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280 – The Maninger Family

We’re going to begin a series of stories about our Maninger family. 

But guess what? The history of our Maninger family has already been written! It’s “The Maninger Family: with additional sections on the related families of Barth, Smith, Schrock, Weyeneth,” by F. Robert Henderson.

Lucky for us, this marvelous history resource is available to help tell our stories. 

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