In the 1900 and 1910 census listing for August Panzer, the mother Caroline nee Heinemann, was listed as having had nine children, eight of whom were then living. In the series of books Germans to America Vol. 13 Page 268, an August Panzer age 24 miner was listed among the passengers on the Ship Helene which arrived in New York on 15 July 1860 from Bremerhaven. His destination was given as Chicago. On the 1900 and 1910 census records, August gave his emigration year as 1860. (Information courtesy of Sue Rife).

Christ Warnke: Committed suicide by hanging himself in the grainery of his farm near Sumner, Ia. It appears that Christian was born Christian Warncke but elected to drop the "c" from the name after he arrived in the United States. The village of Moltenow, Mecklenburg, Germany is one of two villages with the same name. Based upon data showing a Warncke name in the 1819 German census, the Warncke family came from the Moltenow, located in the Bernitt parish between Schwerin and Rostock, in northern Germany. The Warncke family has now been located in Moltenow, parish Muhlen-Eichsen - Recorded July 22, 1999. (Information provided by Sue Rife.)

If you have come to my website via Ancestry: Several years ago the genealogy giant Ancestry absorbed the genealogy websites of Rootsweb along with personal databases posted at Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project that included a large database of my own family information. I started using Rootsweb in 2000 and they gave us the capability to add, remove, and update our information at anytime and I used these options frequently to post correct and current data. Presently (2006) I am told by Ancestry that we cannot maintain our own databases, we cannot even remove them. If you find information at Ancestry with my name attached please search my website for current information, the databases posted at Ancestry contain inaccurate information. - Karen Rowe.