ABOUT US




Cousins Patti Olsson and Lisa Gettling at Historic Gnadenhutten Cemetery, Tuscarawas Co. OH




Lisa Gettling is a substitute teacher and professional genealogist in Ohio. She is a member of the Daughter of the American Revolution,
and Tuscarawas County Genealogical Society's First Families. Her interest in genealogy developed at the age of 17, when she was given
a copy of a family genealogy by her great aunt. She would like everyone to know, PLEASE get a special acid free picture pen (available at
most craft or scrapbook book stores) and write down the names of everyone in the picture! It is so heartbreaking to see beautiful old photographs that the people have not been identified.


Surnames she is researching include: AFFOLTER, ARDEN, AXLINE, BLAUVELT, BRANDT, CANNING, CLUTE, COLEMAN, FLOOD,
FONDA, FOX, FRIES, GERNAND, GOETTLING, GREY, HANGIN, HAWK, HOOVER, HOUSEHOLDER, KENNEDY, KERLET, KUHN, LANTZ, MABIE, MAGAW, MAUK, MC CARTY, MICHEL, REED, RITCHIE, SCHEMMEL, SLINGERLAND, TISDALL, VAN BRUNT, VROOMAN, WALDRON, WESTFALL, WOODVILLE


Patricia Olsson is a saxophone instructor at Kent State University-Stark Campus in Canton, Ohio and at Mt. Union College in Alliance Ohio.
She has been actively researching her family since 1998, though interested in genealogy since she was about 12. It is VERY important to her to document her sources, so no one has been merged into her Family Tree Maker file. All information in the file has at least 1 source that has been personally found and verified. A member of the Tuscarawas County Genealogical Society, she is also a member of the Tuscarawas County Genealogical Society's First Families, having submitted documentation (and that documentation having been reviewed and approved) that at least one branch of her family was in Tuscarawas county prior to 1830 (they were proven there in 1809). She has been a beta tester for Family Tree Maker since version 4.5, and is a professional paid genealogical researcher.


Surnames she is researching include: BENFER, BRIGEL, BURRELL, ECKERT/ECKHARD, ENDER, FRANZ, GARNANT/GERNAND, GOEDDEL/GOEDEL, HACKENBRACHT, HOMRIGHAUSEN, HOWE, HUBER, HÜNKEN, JACKSON, KAUFMAN, KEENER/KEEHNER/KUHNER/KUEHNER, KUHN, LLOYD, MCCLANE, MCCREARY, MENGEL, MONTAG, MORROW, NAGEL,
PORTER, POTT, REISS, RENDER, SCHILLING, SCHMIDT, SLUTZ/SLUTS/SLUTTS, SPARKS, SPIESS, STEPHON, STRACKBINE,
SUTTLE, TAYLOR, VON BUSTHAL, WEIGAND, WELLER, WENGER, ZIEGLER,