Avants/Danrich

Genealogy Research is similar to putting a jigsaw puzzle together -- time consuming and frustrating! But each time you find a piece that fits, you're hopes are renewed and you continue with the hunt!

Sandra Danrich Ladewig

The following names are the currently being researched: Avants and Danrich. Others will be added as the research progresses.

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Avants
Most of my information is on the maternal side of the family (Avant/s). A majority of the miscellaneous "Notes" have been passed down from conversations with my mother, Mettie Lucille Avants Danrich, and from written notes made by her first cousin, Elmer Adams. My mother received a copy of the handwritten notes in the early 1980s. Larose Adams, Elmer's niece, was kind enough to send me a typed copy of the notes, which included additions and revisions. Several stories were relayed to my mother by her sister, Lillie Ethel Avants Wiltshire. These taped conversations took place in 1982 and 1986, and my mother gave them to me before her death.

Danrich
Research on my father's side (Tamkeweiz; aka "Danrich") is difficult. All of his siblings are now gone, and my cousins have little information. Records are scarce and it's a continuous struggle to put the pieces together. My grandmother (Victoria) did not speak English and like most children, I was not interested in her past. My grandfather (Joseph Igancius Tamkeweiz/Danrich) died 6 years before I was born, and my father (Joseph Adam) was a first-generation American who never spoke of his childhood. His sister, Amelia, was the only one who remained fluent in Lithuanian. In fact, as the oldest, and, as her younger siblings became Amercanized, she did the translating between her brothers and sister and their mother.