Welcome to the Main Entry Portal of our
single surname family history study. We study the 
name and its thousands of variations regardless of its
application to person, place or thing. Although the primary emphasis
is upon family connections, no stone is left unturned in our quest for more
knowledge about the name.
The THREE MAIN ENTRY PORTALS
of this voluminous web site are:
This Introductory Page
Christian Connections Portal
Genealogy Portal
Organizations and entities all over the world are now posting
information on the internet - some of which is relevant to and referenced at
this site. The Gmail 'alerts' function helps find them as they are
discovered by Google's search engine(s). The most recent of those
'alerts' are helping us discover the Origin of our Family Name - a matter so important that
it not only has its own
page, it is has a
[toggle-me] show/hide button embedded within various other
narratives where the reader can display & read the discussion and then hide
it when done to continue with the rest of the narrative on that page.
[ This webmaster thanks 
Wikipedia for pointing to the possibilities of this
hide/show technique which is exemplified at www.jamrent.com/wrapem.htm. ]
Navigation aides can be found within each of the
- century by century chronological summary - of the detail contained within the 1,024 web pages & images of this voluminous web site - (the chronology will be a work in progress for at least another six months or so).
- Cumulative month by month links to
items - following
the web site links section are the thousands of local links to spelling page entries
for our family name - alphabetically sequenced according to when they were
discovered.
- - (snippets and photos; most remain privately published)
- (see comments above)
- - (via www.CoolText.com).
- - alphabetically sequenced portals to the dozen pages holding the A through Z alternative spellings of our family name found, so far.
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MODERN BEGINNINGS OF OUR FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT
Much of the USA based genealogical and 'my story' research was done from 1969 onward with the results published privately in a large 3 ring binder. We also paid a genealogist in Germany to do research on our behalf in the Bremen area in the early 1970s - much of that research is reflected online and can be seen (mostly in image files) referenced at various pages and mostly at our Bremen page. Some Bremen, Germany and USA birth/death/marriage records research was done in 1972 and 1973, respectively. Most of the locations pointing to where those USA records might be found was accomplished by a thorough perusal of the various City Directories located in the library of the Wisconsin State Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin.
The 'serious' historical research of our family name (for our Wisconsin based family history project) began at the University of New Mexico library in 1970. [ See James and Helmut for research done by others independent of ours. ] The Charlotte M. Yonge book, History of Christian Names (online), proved to be our first valuable hint at the widespread dissemination of our family surname, but it wasn't appreciated as much then as it is now.
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[ The 1969 Covered Bridge Park & Artesian Lake meetings need to be included here. ] |
The internet portion of this single surname family history study began in February 1998 with some emails - go to the first page of our guestbook to begin reading them. Since then, thanks to the ongoing geometric development of the internet and all of the people and entities responding to it, this web site has become far too complex for one person to handle. But, not giving-up or caving-in, numerous, often redundant navigation aides have been developed to facilitate getting to the details within these thousands of pages of information. [ Needless to say, those navigation aides heighten the administrative complexity of the site, but hey, even the webmaster needs help finding stuff in these pages. ]
Much of the information gathered and summarized at this web site is detailed at other sites - links to those sites are indicated where appropriate. If all else fails, use
and the other search engines to find the latest (or more) information. [ 2/17/2009: Many of the external links found a decade or more ago no longer work and are replaced or eliminated as they are discovered - look inside the source HTML file to see old dead links that may help find a replacement site. Linking accuracy is a continuous and lengthy process that can consume all of one's time and energy. Even many of the 'cached' pages at Google are longer found. Eventually, someone (like Google or Wikipedia) will dedicate a server to old dead links where us Webmasters can place new links so that the flow of information on the internet can remain seamless to users.Larger bold type is used at this web site in order to help those who, like this webmaster have senior eyesight not as effective as when we were in our prime. Unlike commercial sites where most of the small type goes unread, these pages are meant to be read in their entirety - especially by those newly discovering our family history.
Ruben James Ciriacks, MBA
Webmaster, Genealogist & Cyriac Family Historian
March 22, 2012
