Last update December 2003

I received this Photo from Kyla Cromer.
This is Emil John Hesselschwerdt and his Family of Kalona, Iowa.
From around the 1940's
Emil was friends with Kyla's Grandfather.
Thank you Kyla for the picture. This is priceless!


This web site has some of the information I have received from people all over the world. I hope that I can be of help to you in your search for your genealogy. I have found some of the many connections between all the different Heselschwerdt's, but there are still many that I can not find.  I am still new (after 3 years now) at genealogy, and get lost, or overwhelmed on many days. So please forgive me if I do not get all the information up on the web site right away.

There are different spellings of the Heselschwerdt name. Some of the spellings I have found are as follows:

Hasalschwardt,
Haselschwerdt,
Haselschwertz,
Haselz
Hasselschwerdt,
Hazelschwerdt,
Hazelschwerz,
Hazelshwert,
Hazelswart,
Heselschwerdt,
Heselschwertz,
Hesselschwerdt,
Huselschwerdt


I am still tring to find the ties to all these Heselschwerdt's of different spellings.
If you have any information, PLEASE email me at . You may think it is not much, but it may be just what I am looking for. Who knows!

I have 5,566 surnames on the Family tree with 16,761 individuals. There is 15MB of web pages that I have uploaded on April 9, 2002.
Here is the link to the Surnames Index page. You can follow the many links after that. Have fun and please email me any time. I have been informed that there are a few mistakes on the pages. Please use this as a Guild ONLY. I do not have hard copy records for all of these people. If you have hard copies, and would like to send me a copy, please contact me for my address. If not please tell me where you recieved your copy so, that I may find my own. Thank you.




Added a page of the Maple Grove Cemetary in Sylvan Township (Michigan, USA). I took some great pictures of the tombstones. Hope you like them, and can use the information.(updated July 11, 2001, NEW update Dec. 26, 2001)

Added a page on the descendants of David Ransom, born abt. 1808 and married to Sarah Hoople.(updated Feb. 02, 2001)

Added a page on the descendants of George Gromotka, married to Anna Marie Soglowek.(updated Feb. 02, 2001)

New information as of Dec. 8, 2000
See what I found at Manchester, Michigan (update Dec. 10, 2000)

See Michael Lehmann and Eva Marie Heselschwerdt's descendants.

Johann Heselschwerdt married to Christine Katharine Fenchel in January 20, 1780 (updated Dec. 05, 2000)