about the Author
I live in the United
States of America and have been researching family history for more
than forty years. My own family line is that from Remmingsheim, Kreis
Rottenburg / Neckar region of Wuerttemberg. My direct ancestor is
Martin Scholderer (died 1635) 4th great grandfather of Christian
August Scholderer who emigrated to America in March of 1831.
Christian traveled with his new bride Anna, from their home in
Degerloch with Christian's mother and stepfather, Johann Jacob
Sigmund.
For me, family history research complements my own love of history. It
has also been a wonderful way of meeting people from all over the
world with similar interests. I very much enjoy sharing my research
with other people and helping them on occasions to locate their own
family roots. I am always delighted to hear from others who share a
similar interest and very happy to hear about their own research.
There are far too many researchers to acknowledge personally who over
the past forty years they have provided me with both guidance and
inspiration. But there are three in particular that I would like to
publicly acknowledge. My distant cousin Erika Lanz (1938 - 2018) from
the Degerloch section of Stuttgart, without whom most of the German
research would not have been possible; Frederick Ulmer Stabler
(1907-2005) my maternal grandfather who saved and wrote various
tidbits of information about his family from Pennsylvania and Germany
and my paternal grandfather James Lloyd Sholder (1913-1969) who passed
on the family Bible to my father.
I thank most sincerely all those who have so generously contributed so
much of their time to the wealth of material that is now available on
this website and I thank them for sharing that research. Hopefully
this website will allow others with similar research interests to
further their own studies and perhaps find their own personal family
roots.