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Bill Chaddock
Shortly after his retirement, following a 40 year career in journalism and public relations, Bill Chaddock was “bitten” by the genealogy bug. Over the past 15 years he has done ext...view moreShortly after his retirement, following a 40 year career in journalism and public relations, Bill Chaddock was “bitten” by the genealogy bug. Over the past 15 years he has done extensive research into his and his wife’s family trees, tracing both of their ancestries back several centuries and having the pleasure of making contact with hundreds of previously-unknown relatives throughout the United States.
During his research, he was particularly attracted to the lives of his paternal great-grandparents, Louis and Christiane Doebeling Kroehling who emigrated from Germany to Illinois in 1850. He saw them as the personification of the many millions of immigrants who left their homelands and families, came to the United States, adopted it as their home and helped make it the great nation it is today.
This book traces 14 generations of the two families from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first centuries, It also chronicles the lives of Louis and Christiane and discusses the challenges they and other immigrants faced both before and after they decided to come to America.view less