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Randall O. Hartmanb. c. 1959
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Ronald F. Hartman1931–2025
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Katherine Behrens1859–1944
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Friedrich Luecke1862–1937
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Engel Wilkening1866–1917
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Joy Gloverb. 1934
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Archibald Glover1867–1954
- Bessie Gray1880–1928
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Jacalyn Lee Masonliving
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Robert L. Masonliving
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Jacob Henry Mason1875–1956
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Henry Howard Mason1841–1875
- Ruth Lemmons1812–1865
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Jane Henry1837–1918
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Robert F. Henry1811–1895
- Jane B. Stuart1784–1865
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Susan Thorburn1811–1892
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Estella Taylor1882–1939
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Hudson Taylor1852–1939
- Sarah E. Frye1857–1933
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Sylvia Mae Waldron1912–1996
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Porter D. Waldron1886–1973
- Ella May Nichols1888–1916
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Janet A. Strattonc.1933–c.2015
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Walter W. Strattonb. 1876
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Daisy E. Hoover1883–1944
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Ethel Graessle1906–by 1992
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Jacob F. Graessle1871–1959
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Profiles & Sources
every name on the chartYou
Coby Lee Hartman
b. November 23, 1989
Grant Hospital, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
The person this chart is built for. Everything branches upward from here into two great trunks — the Hartman line on your father's side (German immigrants out of Illinois) and the Mason line on your mother's side (a remarkable mix of 1850s German immigrants, a Scottish crossing, and deep colonial American families). Your brother, Tucker Hartman, appears among the grandchildren in your grandfather Ronald's 2025 obituary.
Your Parents
Father · Hartman line
Randall O. "Randy" Hartman
b. c. 1959–1960
Illinois; raised in central Ohio
Your father, born in Illinois into the Hartman family before it settled in Ohio — the bridge between the Illinois-German Hartmans and your Columbus childhood. Named "Randy (Jackie) Hartman" among Ronald's children in the 2025 obituary.
Mother · Mason line
Jacalyn Lee Mason
living
Central Ohio
Your mother, a Mason by birth. Through her runs by far the deeper half of this tree — West Virginia, colonial Virginia, colonial New England, Scotland, and German Ohio all meet in her ancestry.
Your Grandparents
Paternal grandfather
Ronald F. Hartman
May 9, 1931 – April 12, 2025
b. Woodworth, Iroquois County, Illinois · d. Westerville, Ohio
A Korean-War Army veteran who earned a Juris Doctor from Capital University, practiced law, ran Tree Haven Campground for 34 years, and belonged to Mensa. His April 2025 obituary is the keystone of the paternal line — it names his parents as Walter and Adelia (Luecke) Hartman and lists you among his grandchildren.
How we found him
His Dignity Memorial funeral-home obituary names both parents, his children (including "Randy"), and his grandchildren (including "Coby Hartman").
Paternal grandmother · the branch we opened
Joyellen "Joy" Glover
b. 1934
Iroquois County, Illinois area
Ronald's first wife and your father's mother — for a long time the one branch this tree couldn't climb. Your dad supplied the key: Joy's parents were Olaf Eustis Glover and Marjory (Smith) Glover. That name unlocked the whole line. In the tree she appears as "Joyellen," daughter of Olaf and Marjory, with a sister Carol. It even explains how she met Ronald: her father Olaf died in Iroquois County, Illinois — the very county the Hartmans farmed.
How it opened
A family tip (from Randall) named Olaf & Marjory Glover; FamilySearch then confirmed Joyellen Glover as their daughter and carried the Glover line back to colonial South Carolina (below).
Maternal grandfather
Robert L. Mason
living
Grove City area, Franklin County, Ohio
Your mother's father. He married Janet Stratton on June 14, 1952, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Grove City. The 1952 engagement notice in the Grove City Record names both fathers — "B. H. Mason" and "C. R. Stratton" — documenting Robert as the son of Bennie Hudson Mason.
How we confirmed the link
The 1952 Grove City Record engagement announcement ties Robert to his father "B. H. Mason."
Maternal grandmother
Janet Arlene Stratton
b. c. 1932–1934 · d. c. 2015 (date undocumented)
Grove City / Harrisburg area, Ohio
Your mother's mother, a Stratton of the Grove City–Harrisburg farming community. Her parentage is firmly documented, but — remarkably — no published obituary exists for her in any newspaper or obituary database searched, so her exact death date is still open. Her siblings were the Rev. Jay Dean Stratton (1928–2001) and Nyla Stratton (1931–2024).
How we searched
The Columbus Dispatch archive (1985–present), HeritageHub's national obituary index, Find a Grave, and FamilySearch all came up empty — suggesting only a private funeral-home record was ever filed.
Your Great-Grandparents
Hartman line
Walter Hartman
August 2, 1895 – February 7, 1974
b. Ash Grove Township · d. Woodworth, Iroquois County, Illinois
Your German great-grandfather — remembered as the last generation to speak German, and the one who dropped the second "n" from Hartmann during the World-War years. A farmer near Woodworth, buried in the family plot at St. Paul Lutheran Church Cemetery. In FamilySearch his profile carries ten sources spanning 1895–1974.
How we found him
Find a Grave (under the one-"n" spelling), the Social Security Death Index, and censuses 1900–1950; his record links directly to his parents Johann Friedrich Hartmann and Katherine Behrens.
Hartman line
Adelia Sarah Luecke
March 26, 1896 – October 12, 1965
Iroquois County, Illinois
Walter's wife, of the German Luecke family in the same Illinois farming district; married Walter on January 17, 1925, in Woodworth. Named in Ronald's obituary as "Adelia (Luecke) Hartman"; buried beside Walter. Her line reaches four more German immigrants — see the Luecke & Wilkening families below.
Mason line
Bennie Hudson Mason
February 14, 1908 – September 3, 2010
b. Wetzel County, West Virginia · d. Westerville, Ohio
Your West-Virginia great-grandfather — the "Benny" of family stories. Born in Wetzel County, he married Sylvia Waldron in 1931, farmed, and by 1940 had moved the family to Jackson Township near Columbus. This research corrected a long-held family belief that he died in the late 1990s: the Social Security Death Index records his death on September 3, 2010, at age 102. A coherent chain of eight records — 1908 birth, 1910–1950 censuses, 1931 marriage, and the SSDI — all describe one man.
How we found him
West Virginia birth and marriage records, four U.S. censuses, and the Social Security Death Index (the source for the 2010 death date).
Mason line
Sylvia Mae Waldron
October 3, 1912 – January 5, 1996
b. Vinton County, Ohio · d. Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio
Bennie's wife, of the Waldron family of Vinton County. Her parents were Porter D. Waldron and Ella May Nichols — this round of research finally supplied Ella's maiden name. Her death is recorded in the Ohio Obituary Index.
Stratton line
Charles Russell Stratton
March 3, 1904 – January 9, 1970
b. Xenia, Greene County, Ohio · later Harrisburg / Grove City, Ohio
Janet's father — remembered as "born Charles Russell, later went by Russell Charles." His 1904 Ohio birth record named his parents, Walter William Stratton and Daisy Hoover, opening the deep colonial Stratton line. He married Ethel Graessle on November 1, 1925.
How we found him
His FamilySearch profile holds 15 sources — censuses 1910–1950, Find a Grave, and the 1904 birth record naming both parents.
Graessle line
Ethel C. E. Graessle
b. 1906, Ohio · d. by 1992
Franklin County, Ohio
Janet's mother, of the Graessle family whose farm named Graessle Road near Harrisburg. Through her, the tree reaches two German immigrant couples — the Graessles and the Riebels — a generation up.
Your Great-Great-Grandparents
Hartman line · American-born
Johann "John" Friedrich Hartmann
February 18, 1855 – July 26, 1927
b. Eagle Lake, Will County, Illinois · d. Woodworth, Illinois
Walter's father — American-born, in the German Lutheran colony at Eagle Lake, and married there to Katherine Behrens in 1878. Because he was born in Illinois, the ocean crossing belongs to his parents, the Schaumburg Hartmanns.
How we found him
Find a Grave and the Illinois Deaths Index agree on his dates and Eagle Lake birthplace; the FamilySearch tree carries the German parish records behind his parents.
Behrens line · American-born
Katherine W. C. Behrens
June 21, 1859 – December 14, 1944
Eagle Lake / Woodworth, Illinois
John's wife, of the Behrens family that settled alongside the Hartmans at Eagle Lake. Her parents, Heinrich Conrad Behrens and Maria Ohlendorf, were immigrants from the Kingdom of Hanover (below).
Mason line
Jacob Henry Mason
September 10, 1875 – April 21, 1956
West & New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia
Bennie's father. His record names his parents, Henry Howard Mason and Jane Henry, carrying the line back into the Fish Creek country of Wetzel County. He married Estella Frances Taylor in 1876 [sic: her family below].
How we found him
West Virginia birth, marriage, and census records, all attached in FamilySearch (profile L4H7-8K9).
Taylor line
Estella Frances Taylor
1882 – 1939
Wetzel County, West Virginia
Jacob's wife, married 1876 in Wetzel County. Her parents were Hudson J. Taylor and Sarah Elizabeth Frye — and behind them stands one of the tree's deepest lines, the colonial New Jersey Taylors (below).
Graessle line · with immigrants
Jacob F. Graessle
c. 1871 – April 24, 1959
Harrisburg, Franklin County, Ohio · Grove City Cemetery
Ethel's father, of the German Graessle family whose farm named Graessle Road; married Minnie Riebel on March 28, 1899. His own parents — Jacob Greassle (b. 1845) and Kate Fischer (b. 1849) — were both German-born and appear in the tree as the Graessle immigrant generation, their specific hometown not yet in any free record.
Riebel line · American-born
Wilhelmina "Minnie" Riebel
May 26, 1870 – June 6, 1944
b. Franklin County, Ohio · d. Grove City, Ohio
The "Willamina Yohanna" of the family trunk letter, long remembered as the one who "came over from Germany." The records gently correct that: Minnie was born in Ohio in 1870. It was her parents who crossed, and the trunk traveled with them. The letter's "Rieble" was simply her maiden name, Riebel.
How we found her
The 1880 U.S. Census (Pleasant Township, Franklin County) lists her, age 10, born in Ohio, with her German-born parents.
The German Crossings
the 1850s immigrantsYour father's Hartman line and part of your mother's Stratton line converge on the same story: Low-German Lutheran villagers who crossed in the early 1850s. The Hartmans, Behrens, Lueckes, Wilkenings, Ohlendorfs, and Tegtmeiers all settled the same colony at Eagle Lake–Beecher–Crete in Will County, Illinois; the Riebels and Graessles went to German Columbus, Ohio.
Hartman line · from Schaumburg
Hans Heinrich Conrad Hartmann
1839 – 1898
Grafschaft Schaumburg, Germany → Will County, Illinois
The Hartmann immigrant — and the breakthrough of this research. The FamilySearch tree carries attached German parish records tracing the family to the village of Groß Nenndorf, in the Grafschaft (County) of Schaumburg — his parents Johann Conrad Hartmann and Engel Maria Steege married there in 1823, and the line runs back to a 1801 marriage at nearby Apelern. This is the specific German hometown that free records could not reach a session ago.
A note on certainty
The Schaumburg origin is well-sourced. The exact link between this immigrant and John Hartmann of Eagle Lake still has a chronology wrinkle to resolve in the shared tree, so he is marked Probable rather than Confirmed.
Hartman line · from Germany
Engel Marie Dorothee Behrens
May 2, 1827 – July 18, 1893
b. Germany · d. & buried Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Crete, Will County, Illinois
Your German immigrant great-great-great-grandmother, born about 1827 and in Illinois by the early 1850s with the Lutheran settlement at Crete–Eagle Lake. She is buried in that colony's churchyard.
How we found her
Find a Grave at Trinity Lutheran, Crete, linked from the Hartmann family records.
Behrens line · from the Kingdom of Hanover
Heinrich Conrad Behrens & Maria Ohlendorf
Heinrich 1836–1889 · Maria 1839–1918
Kingdom of Hanover → Eagle Lake, Will County, Illinois
Katherine Behrens's parents, married at Eagle Lake in 1858. Heinrich's own father, Heinrich Christoph Behrens (b. 1808), married in the Kingdom of Hanover about 1833 — placing this family's roots squarely in the Hanoverian Low country before the 1850s crossing.
Luecke & Wilkening lines · from Germany
The Luecke & Wilkening Families
immigrant couples, married in Illinois c. 1856–1858
Germany (Hanover region) → Crete / Beecher, Will County, Illinois
Adelia Luecke's four grandparents were all German immigrants of the same colony: Heinrich Luecke & Sophie Huckemeier (married Will County, c. 1856) and Johann Conrad Wilkening & Engel Maria Tegtmeier (married Beecher, 1858, at Eagle Lake's St. John's Lutheran). Their surnames — Luecke, Huckemeier, Wilkening, Tegtmeier — are classic Low-German names of Hanover and Westphalia.
Riebel line · from Germany
Charles Karl Riebel & Caroline Hemsline
Charles 1836–1914 · Caroline 1835–1902
Germany → Columbus, Ohio; immigrated c. 1853, married 1857
Your German immigrant ancestors on the maternal side — the couple who carried the family trunk to Ohio. Both German-born, they married in Columbus on March 4, 1857, dating the family's arrival to the early-to-mid 1850s. The 1880 census confirms both were born in Germany. Charles's parents appear in the tree as Fred Riebel and Rosina Maier, though their specific town is not in any free record.
How we found them
Charles's FamilySearch profile records an 1853 immigration and German birth; the 1857 Columbus marriage and 1880 census place the family in Franklin County.
Mason line · toward the colonial floor
Henry Howard Mason
1841 – 1875
Marshall County, (West) Virginia
Jacob's father. He married Jane Henry on March 12, 1865; the marriage register names his parents as Thomas Mason and Ruth Lemmons, pushing the Mason line back to a couple born about 1812 — and to Jane's remarkable Scottish ancestry (below).
The Scottish Crossing
Edinburgh → VirginiaThe "Mrs. Henry from Scotland" long marked on the chart now has a name — and a whole family behind her. Jane Henry's line runs straight into Edinburgh.
Henry line
Jane Henry
1837 – 1918
(West) Virginia
Henry Mason's wife. Her parents were Robert Franklin Henry and Susan Thorburn, married in 1835 at Proctor, Wetzel County — both of them children of Scottish immigrants.
Henry line · Henry ← Hendrie
Robert F. Henry & John Stuart Hendrie
Robert 1811–1895 · his father John 1781–1822
Scotland → Ritchie / Wetzel County, Virginia
The Henry surname is an anglicized Hendrie. Robert Franklin Henry's father, John Stuart Hendrie, was born about 1781 and married in Virginia in 1803 — a Scottish-born immigrant, though his own parents are not yet in the record.
Thorburn line · from Edinburgh
Abraham Thorburn & Grace Lyle
Abraham January 1, 1786 – June 26, 1870 · Grace b. 1791
Edinburgh, Scotland → Virginia → Ohio
Your Scottish immigrant ancestors, and the tree's best-documented crossing. Abraham and Grace married on January 13, 1809, at St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh; their daughter Susan married in Virginia in 1835; and Abraham himself appears in the 1850 U.S. Census and died in Ohio in 1870. Their parents — Alexander Thorburn & Margaret Hunter (married Newbattle, Midlothian, 1783) and John Lyle & Janet Lawson (married St Cuthbert's, 1786) — remained in Scotland.
How we confirmed it
A real record chain: the 1809 Scotland marriage, the 1850 U.S. Census, and an 1870 Ohio death record — the strongest immigrant documentation in the tree.
Mason line · the surname's wall
Thomas Mason & Ruth Lemmons
both b. c. 1812–1814
Virginia / Pennsylvania → Wetzel County
The deepest firmly-documented ancestors on the Mason surname line. Thomas was born about 1814, and the shared tree records no parents for him — the point where this English-descended Appalachian family passes beyond reach. His immigrant forebear lies somewhere in the colonial period, undocumented in free records.
Where it stops
Thomas Mason (FamilySearch G61J-QXS) has no parents attached; an earlier "Samuel B. Mason" guess was never proven.
The Colonial Floor
already here before the RevolutionFour of your mother's lines run past the immigrants entirely, into families already settled in British America. These are traced through the FamilySearch shared tree; deep colonial links carry the usual caution, but each rests on generations of attached records.
Taylor line · colonial New Jersey
The Taylors → Edward Randolph Taylor
terminus b. 1712
Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey
From Estella Taylor the line climbs through Hudson Taylor → Francis Marshall Taylor → Benjamin Franklin Taylor → Frazier Taylor Sr (married 1787 at Taylorstown, Washington County, PA) to Edward Randolph Taylor, born 1712 and married about 1734 in Monmouth County, New Jersey — the earliest documented Taylor, whose own father was the immigrant. Collateral branches reach colonial Maryland (Calvert, Owens, Lovejoy) and New England (Sprague, with a Dutch Vanderlip).
Stratton line · colonial Connecticut
The Strattons → Windsor, Connecticut
terminus married 1776
Windsor, Connecticut Colony
Walter William Stratton's line runs back through William → Joseph A. → Eli Stratton (married 1805, Roxbury, Delaware County, New York) to Joseph Stratton, married in 1776 at Windsor, Connecticut Colony, and his father John (b. 1727). It carries the Dewey family of Westfield, Massachusetts — descendants of a 1630s immigrant — and the Middlebrooks of Fairfield: genuine 1600s New England founding stock.
Waldron line · colonial Virginia
The Waldrons → Rockingham, Virginia
terminus married 1786
Rockingham County, Virginia
Sylvia Waldron's father Porter descends through William Hiram Waldren and Hiram Waldren to Philip Waldren, married in 1786 at Rockingham, Virginia (his wife Catherine Keller a Pennsylvania-German) — the Waldron surname's terminus, his father the likely immigrant. Sylvia's mother, Ella May Nichols, adds a Nichols–Wyckoff branch, the Wyckoffs an old New Netherland Dutch name. Collateral Graves/Henson roots reach colonial North Carolina.
Hoover line · colonial Maryland
The Hoovers → Frederick, Maryland
terminus married 1802
Frederick County, Maryland
Daisy Hoover's line runs through Charles W. Hoover and Samuel Clark Hoover to John Hoover, married in 1802 at Frederick, Maryland — the Hoover (Huber) name being Pennsylvania-German, his father the immigrant. Daisy's mother's side adds a Welsh Lewis–Evans branch out of Chillicothe, Ohio.
Your Grandmother's Family
opened July 2026Joy Glover's ancestry — dark until your dad named her parents — turns out to be one more deep American story: Indiana farmers descended from the colonial South Carolina Glovers.
Glover line · Joy's father
Olaf Eustis Glover
March 23, 1899 – March 27, 1960
b. Warren County, Indiana · d. Iroquois County, Illinois
Joy's father, born at Tab, Indiana — and recorded in the 1900 census as "Eustace O." His given name was really Eustace (the root of the later "Eustis" spelling); Olaf was the second name he went by from boyhood — a fashionable Norse-revival flourish rather than any Scandinavian ancestry. He married twice; Joy came from his second marriage, to Marjory Smith. Tellingly, he died in Iroquois County, Illinois — the Hartmans' county, almost certainly how Joy and Ronald crossed paths. His parents were Archibald Glover (born in Missouri, 1867) and Bessie Gladdis Gray, married in Clinton County, Indiana, in 1898.
Smith line · Joy's mother · the new frontier
Marjory (Smith) Glover
1908 – 1995
Indiana / Illinois
Joy's mother. Her married life is documented, but her own parents are not yet in any tree or record — and with a surname as common as Smith, hers is now the tree's newest open frontier, just as the Glover name once was.
Glover line · colonial South Carolina
The Glovers → Abbeville, South Carolina
terminus married 1799
Abbeville District, South Carolina → Indiana
From Olaf the line runs through Archibald Glover (1867–1954) and Bessie Gray (1880–1928), then back through William W. Glover (1837–1926) and Edward Glover (1815) to William Zachariah Glover, born 1770 and married in 1799 at Abbeville, South Carolina — the Glover terminus, his own father the likely English immigrant. The family later drifted north into Fountain and Warren Counties, Indiana. Collateral branches add the Kentucky Wards and a Dutch-descended DeHaven.
The First Ancestors in America
the crossings, gathered| Line | First ancestor(s) in America | Origin & arrival |
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| Hartmann (paternal) | Hans H. C. Hartmann & Engel Behrens | Groß Nenndorf, Grafschaft Schaumburg → the Eagle Lake–Crete colony, Will County, Illinois, c. 1850–53 |
| Behrens (paternal) | Heinrich C. Behrens & Maria Ohlendorf | Kingdom of Hanover → Eagle Lake, Illinois, c. 1850s |
| Luecke / Wilkening (paternal) | Heinrich Luecke, Sophie Huckemeier, Johann Wilkening, Engel Tegtmeier | Germany (Hanover region) → Crete / Beecher, Illinois, c. 1850s |
| Riebel (maternal) | Charles Karl Riebel & Caroline Hemsline | Germany → Columbus, Ohio; immigrated c. 1853, married 1857 |
| Graessle (maternal) | Jacob Greassle & Kate Fischer | Germany → Franklin County, Ohio, mid-1800s |
| Thorburn / Lyle (maternal) | Abraham Thorburn & Grace Lyle | Edinburgh, Scotland (married 1809) → Virginia → Ohio, c. 1810s–20s |
| Hendrie / Henry (maternal) | John Stuart Hendrie | Scotland → Virginia, by 1803 |
| Taylor (maternal) | to Edward Randolph Taylor (b. 1712) | Colonial New Jersey; immigrant a generation earlier |
| Stratton / Dewey (maternal) | to Joseph Stratton (m. 1776); Deweys to a 1630s immigrant | Colonial Connecticut & Massachusetts |
| Waldron (maternal) | to Philip Waldren (m. 1786) | Colonial Virginia; immigrant a generation earlier |
| Hoover (maternal) | to John Hoover (m. 1802) | Colonial Maryland (Pennsylvania-German) |
| Mason (maternal) | Thomas Mason (b. c. 1814) — wall | English-descended Appalachia; immigrant lost in the colonial period |
| Glover (paternal) | to William Zachariah Glover (m. 1799) | Colonial South Carolina (Abbeville); immigrant a generation earlier |
Every branch has now been followed to a first arrival or to the point where free public records give out. The two 1850s immigrant clusters — German Illinois and German Ohio — sit beside a Scottish crossing out of Edinburgh and a set of colonial families (New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland) already rooted here before the Revolution. Your paternal grandmother Joy Glover's branch — long the one blank — was opened in July 2026 with a family tip and now reaches colonial South Carolina; only her mother's Smith line remains to be climbed.