The Dishman-White Family Tree identifies our ancestors and links them back to   counties of old Ireland -- Longford, Limerick and Laois --  where they  emigrated from in 1850-1875, escaping famine and looking for a better  life.  One story tells of our great-grandmother Teresa Keating longing to go  back to her Irish homeland and her daughter, Mary, promising to fulfill that  wish for her. Indeed, her grand daughter, Barbara Dishman, carried out that  wish in 1997 and stood on the docks of Cobh, County Cork where her great- grandmother had waited 128 years earlier to embark on her trip to America with  her brothers Edward and Patrick. One of my quests is to find if our Cox,  Keating, Mahoney, Walsh, Clifton, and Bolger clans are still thriving in Ireland  today!

The German sides of our family come from Westphalia and Bavaria -- rural farm  areas that I visted in the Summer of 2003. I found the villages and churches of  our Wagner and Jordan ancestors and have lots of pictures, including  some  watercolors of how the tiny village of Hüflar looks today, preserved from the  days of Johannes Wagner, my 3rd great grandfather.   He was a carpenter and  town ombudsman, who lived in this 1800 Bavarian village with his family when  Napoleon was on the march.

PHOTOS: The dates on the older photos in the attached albums are approximate --  the oldest one of our Jordan ancestors is from about 1860.

RESEARCH AREAS: Looking for the part of Germany (Prussia) where Heinrich  Dischmann came from and looking for the origins of the White and Bracken  clans - may be English or Irish?

FAMILY HISTORY: To read about our ancestors and their lives, click on the  Family History Link.  Please send stories, photos and any updates/corrections  you may have!