Heinrich Christopher Meyer - Is there a curator who would be interested in helping SET his profile???

Hi Cynthia,
It's convention in German names that it's the middle name everyone cares about. Most of the boys names are "Johann" something and most of the girls names are "Anna" something. There are other forms but it's fine if there are a ton of boys all beginning with "Johann".

I did some cleanup of his family.

There is an interesting mix of Germanic forms and Anglicized forms. The only thing that gives me significant pause is that he as two children named "Henry" (equivalent to "Johann Henrich" or "Johann Heinrich") But they each have well defined birth and death dates, and web trees seem to agree they both should be there. Perhaps one's name is "Johann Henrich" and the other is "Heinrich Jacob" or something. Dunno.

I also noted that one of his children married into the Riehm family. I was able to fill out that tree well since the Riehms also married the Weisers (my ancestors). There are other Riehm branches floating around in Geni but nobody has taken the time to stitch them together properly. It would be a worthwhile exercise, since it is clear this is a family that was part of the New York Palantine immigration in 1709-1710, since they married the Weisers. Some of the Meyers also were born in New York at about the right time, so these Meyers were aboard the same flotilla. These early families intermarried, stuck together through hardship.

An observation:

Johann Georg Meyer is said to be born in Germany. However, his brother Johann Heinrich Meyer is said to have been born in the Schoharie Valley of New York State.

The New York State birth is consistent with the 1709-1710 immigration. The German birth is not. So are these people brothers? Well, I looked at Johann Georg's wife, and she seems to have been born in Pennsylvania but at a very early date, also consistent with her parents being New York immigrants. So I think it's just the birth place of Johann Georg that's wrong. He was likely born either in New York or in Pennsylvania, but definitely not in Germany.

I also note that Johann Georg's wife is a Gingerich, and her mother is an Erb. I happened to have recently worked on that part of the tree and was able to figure out where she belongs. The Erbs married into the Bichlers as well; other ancestors of mine, all from Canton Bern, Switzerland. See: Anna Barbara Meyer . The Gingerich tree for her also skipped a generation; now fixed.

Karl David Wright, thank you soooo so much for this. I appreciate it greatly.

Yes, I am familiar with the naming pattern and am still hopeful that a curator will want to MP some of these profiles because it gets very confusing. I am new to this line but have worked on my Germanna ancestors (Brumbach, Otterbach, Fischbach, etc) as well as my husband’s Kegel that became Cagle.

I am especially excited that you are familiar with some of the names and the work you have done makes me want to know more about them. I have never heard the name Gingerich.

Thank you for your kindness.

I have been to Bern! I was a little girl and we were on a family vacation. It is a beautiful country and I have some really lovely memories.

Gingerich became Kingery or Gingery in some descendants. That's probably why you don't recognize it.