The fan chart below covers five generations of Mom’s family, about 125 years, from the early 19th century through Mom’s generation and their immediate descendants into the mid-20th century. For more Kortsch genealogical information, go to Ferdinand Kortsch (1826-1900), Paul…
Introduction A little Guiney genealogy here. For Kortsch family genealogy, see the post on Mom’s father, Paul Kortsch Jr. (1887-1957) and grandfather Paul Kortsch Sr. (1854-1921) Look, too, at the Ferdinand Kortsch post, which contains information on the American founder…
Overview This account sketches the life of the founder of the Milwaukee branch of the Kortsch family in America, with a digression on some distant but interesting cousins. Information on the lives and work of Ferdinand’s son, Paul, Sr, and…
Sixteen years younger than Mom and the youngest of the Kortsch children, Kevin was the most amiable of the Kortsch brothers, with a quick laugh and friendly manner. Mom doted on him when he was a child, the many pictures…
Mostly pictures of Gerry as an adult. For more pictures of him as a child see Mom’s Photo Album. For all of Gerry’s pictures, use the search bar. Life Gerry was born on April 9, 1926. He enlisted in the US…
The complete photographic collection of Alice Kortsch. She was born on July 7, 1913, and died of burns suffered after her clothes caught fire and subsequent medical malfeasance (the doctor was drunk) on December 27, 1916. The baby, “Dorothy,” in…
Jack left behind very little information with which to sketch his life: no birth record, no marriage or divorce record, and no obituary. World War II Fortunately, the US military’s obsession with recording every movement of its personnel allows us…
David is the son of George and Ellen Kortsch White. He is married to Lynne White. David is also the brother of Eileen White (b. abt 1961), who is married to Thomas Reid.
Pictures of Ellen, primarily as a young person but some as a child and a few when she was older. Ellen’s Early Days Unlike all of her brothers and sisters, Ellen wasn’t born in Milwaukee but Passaic, New Jersey, during…
Introduction Pictures of Pat as a child can be seen below and in Mom’s Photo Album. Only one picture of Pat as an adult is in the archive, taken in 1985 by Mom while on a trip to St. Petersburg,…
Biographical information on Nana and her birth family, including more pictures, is in the ‘Guiney Family‘ post. Below is the earliest picture of her as a young woman, when she was around 20. For other pictures of her as a…
Paul Sr. (1854-1921) Paul Kortsch Sr. was Ferdinand’s middle son and Mom’s grandfather. (He can be seen, just barely, in the window in the third picture below.) He turned his hand to a number of occupations starting in 1870 when…
Overview An account of Paul Kortsch Jr., Ann Eanlen Guiney Kortsch (‘Nana’), and Their Six Children Mom’s great grandfather was Ferdinand Kortsch, the first of the family in America. His son, Paul Sr. was her grandfather. More pictures and information…
Photo itinerary of a trip Mom and Ellen took to the New York World’s Fair, August 13 to the 19th or 20th, 1939. Three portraits on the first and last pages, with 65 additional pictures arranged in eight chronological sections. The…
A thirty-one page sourcebook for Mom’s Mount Mary senior thesis, “Irish Poetry From 1836 to 1936” (1937). None of the poems are annotated, and the analysis, if there was one, doesn’t appear to be extant. Some of the poems have…
Inspection Cards of the Guiney Sisters, And Their Ship Background The number of people coming to America during the mid-19th and early 20th centuries has been described as the largest mass migration in human history. To accommodate these numbers a…
Pictures of Mom’s lifelong friend, Inez Dretzka Milinovich. In the fourth from last picture Mom is standing in the front row on the right. Inez died thirteen years before Mom, in 1993 in San Diego. The last three pictures were…
Mom liked taking pictures, as we all ruefully came to learn, going back to when she was young. She collected quite a few showing her family covering 1929 to 1939 and organized them in a photo album with seven sections.…
Ten pages from Mom’s high school yearbook, taken when she was a first-year student. Only the pages with annotations have been included, other than the title page. The second picture shows a very young-looking Mom at age fourteen in the…
Pictures of Mom’s family from the 1900s to 1920s, with a few later. Some historical information is included with the pictures. More can be found in the accounts of Paul Kortsch Jr., Paul Kortsch Sr., and Ferdinand Kortsch. Nana as…