The Meiers surname is German, and the earliest ancestor in my branch of the family hails from near Grabow and Hohenkranig (now Kranjik Gorny), in Brandenberg Province, Prussia, towns near the Oder River on the modern-day border between Germany and Poland.

I started research on the Meiers family in 1997 after corresponding through e-mail with a distant cousin, Kathy Zelus, who supplied all the information on the early generations of this family back in Prussia which comes from Lutheran Church records in Prussia . These were filmed by the LDS Church and are available on microfilm. Kathy sent me information on the LDS film numbers and the names and dates for the ancestors of Caroline (Kastner) Gensmer, generation #4, who is also her ancestor. Many thanks to Kathy for this valuable information.

Here is my MEIERS lineage as far as it has been proven:

1. Catherine MEIERS, b. ca. 1735 Prussia; md. ca. 1756 to George STANTZ, b. ca. 1735 Prussia
2. Michael STANTZ, b. 1 Oct. 1757 in Reichenfelde, Brandenberg, Prussia; md. 30 Oct. 1780 in Grabow, Brandenberg, Prussia to Maria Christine JAHANEN, b. ca. 1760 Prussia, d. 25 June 1813 in Hohenkranig, Brandenberg, Prussia
3. Christina STANTZ, b. 21 Oct. 1781 Reichenfelde, Brandenberg, Prussia; md. 1805 Brandenberg Province Prussia to Friedrich KASTNER, b. 22 Jan. 1781 Grabow, Brandenberg, Prussia
4. Caroline KASTNER, b. 8 March 1810 Hohenkranig, Brandenberg, Prussia, d. 1907 Winona Co., MN; md. ca. 1830 Alt Ruednitz, Brandenberg, Prussia (now Stara Rudnica) to Martin Friedrich GENSMER, Jr., b. 10 May 1809 Alt Ruednitz (now Stara Rudnica) Prussia, d. 26 Jan. 1902 Winona Co., MN (both buried at Norton Trinity Lutheran Cemetery at Norton Township, Winona Co., Minnesota)
5. Maria Louisa Dorothea GENSMER, b. 27 Aug. 1831 Grenneberg, Germany, d. 22 Dec. 1922 Elysian, Le Sueur Co., MN; md. 24 Oct. 1852 Mayville, Dodge Co., WI to Traugott ROEMHILDT, b. 26 Aug. 1824 Lohlen, Schwarzburch, Rudolfstaht, Germany, d. 1 May 1898 Elysian, Le Sueur Co., MN (both buried in St. Peter's "Bell" Lutheran Cemetery at Elysian, Minnesota)
6. Holda Augusta ROEMHILDT, b. 1 Jan. 1855 Mayville, Dodge Co., WI, d. 15 Aug. 1926 Monte Vista, Rio Grande Co., CO; md. 19 Dec. 1878 Elysian, Le Sueur Co., MN to Christoph August QUIRAM, b. 25 Dec. 1853 Schonlanke, Germany, d. 29 Nov. 1937 Porterville, Tulare Co., CA (both buried in the Monte Vista Cemetery)
7. Frieda Helma QUIRAM, b. 24 May 1890 Elysian, Le Sueur Co., MN, d. 18 July 1987 Monte Vista, Rio Grande Co., CO; md. 25 Nov. 1917 Monte Vista, Rio Grande Co., CO to Alexander Fredrick Emil GOHR, b. 31 Jan. 1887 Kossuth Co., IA, d. 18 June 1968 Monte Vista, Rio Grande Co., CO (both buried in the Monte Vista Cemetery) *These are my grandparents.
   

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