Welcome to my genealogy website. This website is basically divided into the ancestors of my mother's Buchmeier families, my father's Lowe families and my husband's Rowe families along with various projects in my research, since 1985. There are 500+ pages in my website. I have tried to cross-reference families, church records, etc. to make it easier for you to find what you may be looking for. Use your browser's FIND IN PAGE options to look for specific information on each page. Many thanks to my genealogy friends Angelika Schierhoelter in Germany and Dr. Edwin Friedrich for giving me the tremendous jump start in researching my family history so many years ago.

All information in my website is free to use or copy. Since the year 2000 I have tried to post as much data as have in my personal files to this website. Should you find errors in any information or linking problems please contact me at the above email address. I will try to respond to brief requests or queries. Karen Rowe

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.