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Murphy Family Chart
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Bogner Family Chart
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Dyszkiewicz Family Chart
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Bittlingmeier Family Chart
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Bauer Family Chart
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Greuter Family Chart

Murphy Family History
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Bogner Family History
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Dyszkiewicz Family History
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Bittlingmeier Family History
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Bauer Family History
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Greuter Family History
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As you can see by the information displayed on this website, I have been able to trace our ancestry back several generations, to the early 1800’s.

On the Murphy half, I have been able to trace back to Matthew and Catherine Murphy, and Miles and Jane Murphy, who were probably born before 1810 in Enniscorthy, Ireland. On the Bogner half of the chart, I have been able to trace back to Friedrich Bittlingmeier, born in the German state of Baden around 1720, and Thomas Homberger, who was born in the early part of the 17th Century in the German state of Hessen.

It is very difficult to go beyond this timeline because very few, if any, civil records exist before 1820 in Germany or Ireland. To go further back, I will have to find church records that recorded births, marriages and deaths. Dealing with the church, especially in Europe, for such ancient information is daunting, if not impossible. Very recently, however, I have had some limited success with early church records, thanks to Tom and Kathryn Peters.

There is, however, another method: DNA testing. We all have DNA in the cells of our bodies that we inherit from our parents, but only males have the nuclear DNA, called y-chromosome or yDNA, that is passed only from father to son.

There is another form of DNA called mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA for short. The mtDNA is passed from a mother to all of her children, male and female, but only females can pass it to their children. I have the mtDNA that I inherited from my mother, Jacqueline Bogner.

Jacqueline inherited her mtDNA from her mother, Margaret Bittlingmeier. Margaret got it from her mother, Anna Bauer. Anna got it from her mother, Margaret Greuter. And Margaret got it from her mother, Margaret Surbeck. This ancestral line traces back to Germany and Switzerland.

Four Generations


Now, this is as far as I can go with names because my research, based on written documents, ends here. But obviously, my great-great-great-grandmother, Margaret Surbeck, inherited her mtDNA from her mother, who got it from her mother, and on and on and on, back through time to….? Eve? Theoretically, yes.

My mtDNA traces an unbroken maternal line back through time for generation upon generation far further back than any written record. So what? How does this help us trace our family tree back any further than I already have? The answer is, it doesn’t, and it does. to learn more on my MtDNA testing, click here.


Determining My Ethnic Background Through DNA Analysis

In 2014, I submitted a sample of my DNA to Ancestry.com who used it to trace my Genetic Ethnicity. To see the results of that analysis, click here.









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