The Kimmel Family Record

A Genealogical Resource Center for the Kimmel Families in the U.S. and Canada


The "Kimmel Family Record" detail comes from the research files of Timothy W. Kimmel at Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Contact Tim at timkimmel@comcast.net.

    
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REVOLUTION ERA FAMILIES
Early New York families    Haplogroup R1b
    1694 Henry appears in New York City
    1737 Balthasar appears in Rhinebeck
Early Philadelphia families
    1738 Conrad arrives in Philadelphia
Jacob of near Orwigsburg, PA     Haplogroup E1b1b1a2
    1750 Jacob arrives in Philadelphia
    1779 Jacob settles near Orwigsburg, PA
North Carolina families    Haplogroup I2b1
    1751 birth of Georg Claus P (pl. unknown)
    1794 Bernhard's firstborn in Rowan (now
         Davidson) Co., NC
Sons of Michael of Gimbsheim    Haplogroup E1b1b
    1751 Jacob and Valentine arrive with
        families in Philadelphia; settles last in
        Lancaster Co., PA
    1755 Philip arrives with sons and
        settles near Bermudian, PA
John of Hampshire Co., VA     Haplogroup R1b1b2
    1767 on communion list at Southfork
Leonard of Harrison Co., OH
    1758 Leonard arrives in Philadelphia
    1809 Leonard settles near New Rumley, OH
Joseph of Charleston, SC
    1764 Joseph and family in Charleston
Jacob of Westmoreland Co., PA
    1768 Jacob arrives in Philadelphia
    1770 Jacob settles near Greensburg, PA
Other Revolution era Kimmels
    George of Lancaster, PA
    Martin of Manchester, MD
    Thomas of Baltimore, MD
    Jacob of Chester Co., PA
    Peter of ( ???), Pennsylvania
    and families mistaken for Kimmels
Kimmel families, unknown original Kimmel
    Incomplete early lineages
 
LATER KIMMEL FAMILIES
The Kimmels arriving 1800-1899
    About 230 Kimmels arrived and started
    families in the U.S. and Canada.
Black Kimmel families
    Henry Kimmel (c1804) of Chester City, IL
    John Kimmel (1850) of Paducah, KY 
Kimmels after 1900

---------------------------Related Links---------------------------

Rootsweb:  Shortcut to Kimmel Mail List  Links to Rootsweb's communication center for people interested in the name Kimmel. (The shortcut page is mine.)

Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project -- Kimmel Gedcom Files (click "home" to submit first name and other surname variations)

Ancestry.com:  Kimmel Surname Message Board  >>  Kimmell >> Kummell >> Kimel

GenForum.com:  Kimmel Family Genealogy Forum   __

Interment.com:  Kimmel burials in transcribed cemeteries  >>  Kimmell  >>  Kummell

The Kimmel Family News Newsletter; A Chronicle of Kimmel Cousins.  A national family newsletter sponsored by the descendants of David and Leah Riegel Kimmel.

---------------------Links to Useful Tools----------------------

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet.

FamilySearch, LDS' free data from IGI files, 1880 census, SSI        FamilySearch (new) free microfilmed collection online

Ancestry.com, pay subscription for digital copies of census records, etc.

GenealogyBank.com, pay subscription for digital copies of newspapers and historical documents

Perpetual Calendar.  At this web site, you can enter a year as the search keyword and get that year's calendar displayed.  Calculations account for the switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in the American colonies in 1752.

Birth Date Calculation.  Here you can enter a death date and age at death to get a birth date.  Great for tombstone calculations!

Roman Numeral to Arabic Numbers Conversion.  Now you don't need to figure out those dates in Roman numerals.

Babel Fish.  Translate German phrases to English or English to German.


Contact the Kimmel Family Record web site host Timothy W. Kimmel at timkimmel@comcast.net