The Welty FamilyResearch Journal
The Welty FamilyResearch Journal
Every documented Welty, in one place: the Edenkoben German family — the Wäldi household of the Palatinate, including the branch whose I1 Y-line marks a paternity break inside the family (shown under Georg Wolfgang) — and the genuinely separate Swiss Emmental family. Click a ▸ to expand a person's children; use the search and filters to find anyone. Built automatically from the People Roster sheet of the research log. 158 people tracked so far.
Every documented person carries two lines: Proof — the specific record that establishes them (a baptism, will, tax entry, census, gravestone) — and Source — exactly where that record can be found. Blue links open the record or repository in a new tab. Where no primary record has been located yet, the person is tagged Hypothesized or Lore and the proof line is left open.
Repositories used: Archion (German Protestant church registers — the Edenkoben Reformed books; subscription) · FamilySearch (church & court records, Full-Text Search, Digital Library; free account) · Ancestry (PA tax, exoneration & church collections; subscription) · FindAGrave (memorials & cemeteries) · Welty Y-DNA project (Brian Hamman, admin; FTDNA patrilineage evidence) · plus published works (Strassburger & Hinke Pennsylvania German Pioneers; Bowen; Beers), archive.org book scans, GAMEO, WikiTree, and the compiler's family papers.
Why three families and not one: the surname Welty (Welti / Wälti / Weldy) arose independently in several German- and Swiss-speaking places, and by chance three of those families settled the same few townships of York County, Pennsylvania and reused the same given names. Y-DNA is the only clean separator — R1b = Edenkoben, I1 = Manchester, I2b = Swiss Emmental. Same name, three different fathers.
Auto-generated from Welty Ancestry Research Log.xlsx → sheet “People Roster (chart source)” via generate_chart.py. Edit the sheet and re-run to update.