Where did we come from? Are we related? (Yup. We are, all of us.) Where are we now? How did we get here?

Above is Mayschoss, Germany circa 1830–a very small village in the Ahr river valley. Mayschoss (pronounced ‘My Shoss’) is the ancestral home of the Gottsacker family and is about 20 minutes south of present-day Bonn. The church in the graphic was the source of most of the Gottsacker genealogy prior to the mid-1800s.

Below is the entry in the Mayschoss church records for the marriage of immigrants Wilhelm Gottsacker and Anna Marie Hoemig on August 19, 1850.

Tell other Gottsackers

Please tell other Gottsacker family members about this website. To make the site as comprehensive as possible, we need to be in touch with as many Gottsacker family members as possible.

A note about the Schladweiler family

There were a few intermarriages between Schladweilers and Gottsackers that are documented on this website. I’ve had several inquiries about the Schladweiler family and have come into contact with a person working on a genealogy of the Schladweilers. If you are a Schladweiler or relative, please contact me so I can put you in touch with the Schladweiler genealogist.