The family tree.
Eldest at the top. The two founding couples of Marlenheim and Kirchheim meet in Jean Groh & Adèle Wohlfrom (married 1868); the line runs down through Marie Theresa Groh to Mary.
Farming families of Marlenheim & Kirchheim, recorded back to the 1790s.
Recorded “Alsace-Lorraine” but almost certainly Prussian / Pomeranian — needs verification.
Marta Rask of Forsa, Hälsingland; orphaned young, emigrated to Minneapolis in 1893, then Montana and Spokane. Off this trip.
Derbyshire ironstone miners and Staffordshire Childs, with a Sullivan thread back through Pennsylvania to Ireland. Off this trip.
Thomas Dougherty of County Roscommon, an 1844 emigrant to Rome, Iowa, where the Holley family married in. Off this trip.
A deep, explicitly unvalidated FamilySearch pedigree: du Chastel of Blangerval, and an Archibald line said to reach Gargunnock, Scotland.
The paternal pocket around Orscholz, Freudenburg and Trier — a Riesling corridor and the optional +2-day detour.
Leißling → Emmental, Bern → “a few went to Alsace” — the Bernese-Anabaptist tail; the name itself is still to verify.
Reichenbach im Vogtland, Saxony; Paul Fiedler emigrated in 1881. A Tier-2 eastern detour.
The paternal core from Vlčnov, Moravia — full parish records and emigration ships; off this trip, but the best-documented origin of all.
The Dutch maternal line from Friesland; emigrated 1907 on the SS Rijndam, with relatives likely still there. Off this trip.