About PetersPioneersPetersPioneers

PetersPioneers is a Web site that contains stories about the ancestors of Peter and Marilyn Carroll Biggins: 59% Irish, 25% German, 13% Swiss, 3% Scottish. Family members, distant cousins, and researchers may find something of interest. Part I covers our family histories and general genealogical stories. Parts II and III include stories about our Irish and German ancestors who came to America from the 1830s to 1880s.      ...more about PetersPioneers
Mural in the Chicago Main Post Office

I. Genealogy

II. Irish to America

They Came in Ships, 1830s to 1880s
A House in Ostentrop

III. Germans to America

*Alleman, Berles, Biggins, Bitter, Breen, Carroll, Conway, Drüecke, Drüeke, Drueke, Fassnacht, Flannery, Foy, Gibbons, Grady, Graham, Green, Hartigan, Hauck, Hauser, Heller, Hesse, Higgins, Kenny, Knoche, Koch, Krämer, Lavo, McDonald, McDonnel, McNally, Meyers, Murray, O'Malley, Schickell, Schmitt, Schumm, Smith, Spiekermann, Stanton, Starke, Struck, Tracy, Walsh, Wittenmeier, Young, Zugelder      ...more about the names