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Save Family Tree Maker Site below. AOL is dropping these pages Nov 1,'08. After all these years. I'm sorry about that. Best to you from Fay & Jan.
Way back in the 1600s in Klein Flintbek, Germany lived a family named Schlotfeldt:
 (Wenn Sie auf deutsch es mitteilen, gut ist, aber es wird fur mich eine Weile dauern,
  es zu erhalten, uebersetzt wird, der bevor ich erwidern kann.) (If you write in German   it's OK, but it will take me time to get it translated, same with Spanish & Portugese.)

Old HINRICH, who was born in 1678 and died Dec. 22, 1746 ( wife ANNA Mordhorst(en)), came from what turned out to be a very large family that today,at the beginning of the 21st Century, live in Alaska, Arizona and Australia; California and Chile; North Carolina and North Dakota and Norway;  Minnesota and Montana; Iowa, Illinois and Indiana; South Dakota and South Africa; Washington State and Washington D.C., Germany,of course, and if we are right in our genealogical guesses, in Denmark and Denver and Brazil and the Brazos. At the beginning of 2003  we have found that Hinrich's parents were named JOCHIM and ANNA, born about 1646.  One of Hinrich's brothers was named Claus who also had a family.  Hinrich was given land for the farm in 1704, the year he was married.  (We were just reminded that one of England's Kings, Charles the First I believe, was beheaded in the middle 1600s and the Pilgrims had just landed at Plymouth Rock in this era.) Louis XIV warred with England in the 1690s (again). HMS Sussex sank at Gibralter.
 The picture, below, of the thatched roof home and the barn are from the Klein Flintbek farm once owned by our 3rd Great Grandfather, Jochim Schlotfeldt. It has his birthdate in April of 1774 carved in a cornerstone.  Also, his son Hans Hinrich was born here in 1808.  Cousin Jim Schlotfeldt took this picture and others in August 1999 on a visit.  We also have the picture of the house and barns currently on the farm that was Hans and Catherine's "estate" in Klein Barkau, Germany called 'Scholensegen'.
They are shown on that census in 1835, 1840 & '45 prior to coming to America (Scott County, Iowa) in 1851.  (Our links with So. Africa & Australia branches go to 1777, and as of July 2003, all the way back to old Jochim of the 1600s in Kl. Flint.)  
If you would like to see prints of that farm, let us know and we will send them as an e-mail attachment.  It is a fairly large .jpg file because there are four photos combined on one sheet.
If you look at our separate "Family Tree Maker home page", linked below, you will see a number of family pictures and some documents that helped us identify that this is the place.  Of course, the Hans Hinrich who came to Iowa in the 1850s, was called Hans "Henry" in American records. CATHERINE's maiden name was STOLTENBERG and we have records of her parents and family.
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Our Spellings have changed since way back when in Germany.
We have the most common SCHLOTFELDT and we have SCHLOTFELD and we have SCHLOTTFELDT and we have SLOTUELD and SCHLOTFELT. We have SCHLODTFELDT & probably others.  The records on our own Hans Hinrich, when he married Catherine Stoltenberg in Germany had his name spelled as Schlotfeld on the Parish marriage record.  (His birth certificate shows the final "t".)  Some old Gross Flintbek records show one of our ancestors as "Schlodtfeldt"...so we get used to that.
Most of us spell it "Schlotfeldt" and pronounce it with a long "o" like the English word "boat".  Lots of us say it with a short "o" like in the English "cot".  But, unlike the spelling, we only know of the two pronunciations. (Plattdeutsch (Low German) didn't have the rules of the later High German.  It was mainly a 'speech based' language.)
   Carmen Schlotfeldt and her father, Hinrich, of Santiago, Chile found an old family tree that linked most of us back to Klein Flintbek.
We lost her address for a while and literally 'recruited' the 'United Nations' to relocate Carmen's e-mail address. It was successful.  She is still a Professor and Dept. Head at the University.   In 2007 we have over 5,000 names of your & my family.
We are willing to share our familienstammbaum (family tree).
Contact us at FayJan@aol.com.  I am Fay Ernest Schlotfeldt and my wife is Janice "Jan" Schlotfeldt.  We live in Arizona with a lot of records of the family.  But be sure to see cousin Dick's BIG Web Site that has a lot about the meaning of the name and the town of Schlotfeld. family biographies, etc.. His URL is 2nd on the list. His previous 'Message Board' and 'GEDCOM Family Tree file' will probably not be reestablished.  It requires more time than his busy schedule permits.
  
WE'VE ADDED A LOT OF PHOTOS AND OLD GERMAN DOCUMENT COPIES TO THE  SCHLOTFELDT FAMILYTREEMAKER page,(1st one below).  Take a look. There are more links on those pages. E-mail for copies of the .jpg files.
 We are adding some received from Marga S. & Corinna T. this fall.
Links to family and other web sites:
Fay & Jan's E-mail address is: FayJan@aol.com
 Backup is our domain:  Home@Schlotfeldt.us  
Personal notes and requests box:   August '08 update note.
  2-4-05  We have received a new artist copy of the Schlotfeldt Coat-of-Arms from Dr. HJ Schlotfeldt of Germany (and Chile).  He found the crest at the Monestary at Itzehoe.  Please write again.  I think we lost your last e-mail about the history of these crests.  Anyone else who visits please write.
 Sep 14, 2008 - Katja SEIFERT took the great Kiel reunion photo.  We have lost contact with her.  Katja, how about a new email address?    
  Also in July, after Bill and Leah left, we were pleased to be able to link Alfred and Sabine's family from Klausdorf after searching for several years.  
  Thank you Katja for your great camera (and skill) with the Gruppen photo
from the reunion.  Gustavo for his camcorder and Corinna & Marga as M.C.s.
  Any updates available about the Schlotfeld family of Omaha?
Hello to Anna & Birgit in Adelaide.  We have you linked to the Big chart now.
In the first quarter of '07 we made contact with Anna's sister Beth thru her PhD page.  She filled in some more of the tree.  We sent copies of the "Big Charts  
  At the end of March after finding a Stoltenberg page by Professor Dr. Klaus Timm on the site of Hans Peter Voss in Germany, a chance inquery gave us 3 more generations of GGGrandmother Catherine's family.  We now go back to Hans Stoltenberg of Laboe, Probstei area of Germany, and his son Claus born 1.6.1660.  This from the book of Professor Hans Lorenz Stoltenberg.  We are indebted to him as well as Mr. Voss and Dr. Timm.
  Marga's searches in the church archives of Neumeuenster/Kiel also gave us another "BINGO" in confirming the final link of the CHRISTIAN SCHLOTFELDT branch of the family.  Chris came to the US from Poppenbrugge/Kiel when he was 16 and eventually helped 'pioneer' Grand Island, Nebraska.  Descendants Lorraine Schlotfeldt Englebrecht of Pueblo and Larry, now of Texas were as pleased as we were to find the big link after several years of searching and brick walls.  Generations added, one-by-one.
  August 2008, Carlos Schlottfeldt of Brasillia found listings for two Schlodfeldts (note spelling) in Queensland, Australia.  We will have to try to correspond with them unless our Aussie cousins are close enough to call or visit with them.  Anybody?
  If anybody would like a personal address on the "schlotfeldt.us" domain,
let me know.  I bought it, and am using "Fay@Schlotfeldt.us" occasionally.  
 
 
Coat-of-Arms of HINRICH SCHLOTFELDT
born in the 1600s in Klein Flintbek, Ger.
Found by an uncle of today's Hans-Hinrich
of Flintbek and sent to Fay and Jan via
his sister, Christiana Barthel on a trip to
the Grand Canyon and Arizona.  (For
a good copy see the 1st link on the left,
FamilyTreeMaker Schlotfeldt page.)  See
file at Monestery at Itzehoe, Ger. per H.J.

 

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