Family Recipe Friday: Margaret Post's Apple Pie

My mother's recipe for Apple Pie....this recipe looks too easy to believe!  I've never made it as the recipe has been in the hands of my sister since our parent's death.  Mom was an excellent cook.  I'll be buying some Granny Smith apples at the grocery store soon!  Margaret Troyer Post was the daughter of Elmer and Mary (Motzko) Troyer, the grand-daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Schrock) Troyer and Philipp and Maria (Fietzek) Motzko, and the great-grand-daughter of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock, John and Elizabeth (Yoder) Troyer, Franz and Francesca (Piechota) Moczko, and Martin and Catherina (Dyga) Fietzek

Mary Post Warren

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Saturday Night Genalogy Fun - Birth Order

It's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun as a challenge from our own Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings

My job is to:

1) Pick one of my ancestral lines - anyone - patrimonial, matriarchal, zigzag, from a famous ancestor, etc.; Pick a long one if I can.

2) Tell which position in the birth order that my ancestor was in each generation. For example "third child, first son. Also list how many children were born to these parents.

3) Share my Birth Order on my own blog post.

Here's mine (I picked my mother's line):

1. Mary D. Post 1943- ) - second child, first daughter of Hays Post and Margaret Troyer (2 sons, 1 daughter)
2. Margaret Troyer (1909-1987) - first daughter of Elmer Troyer and Mary Motzko (2 sons, 3 daughters)
3. Mary M. Motzko (1883-1953) - first child, third daughter of Philipp Motzko and Maria Fietzek (2 daughters)
4. Maria Fietzek (1857-1927) - daughter of Martin Fietzek and Catherina Dyga (4 sons, 6 daughters)
5. Catherina Dyga (1816-after 1857) - daughter of Franz Dyga and Unknown (2 (known) daughters)
6. Franz Dyga (1 (known) daughter)

Numbers 4 through 6 were born in Poland but I have no additional information on them. Not a very long line but I'm working on it!


Mary Post Warren

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: My Matrilineal Line

Over at Genea-Musings Randy Seaver’s latest Saturday Night Fun assignment is:

1) List your matrilineal line - your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you!

2) Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA tested, and if so, which Haplogroup you are in.

OK, I'm game - I haven't gone back that far (in this line) YET but here's what I've got:

Mary Dana Post
Margaret Elizabeth Troyer (1909 ID -1987 CA) m. Hays Coulter Post
Mary Maria Motzko (1884 MN -19523 CA) m. Elmer David Troyer
Maria Fietzek (1857 Nowa Wies Krolewska Opolskie Poland -1927 ID) m. Philipp Motzko
Catherina Dyga (1816 Debie Poland – 1862 ) m. Martin Fietzek (Fiecek)

Mitochondrial DNA tested/Haplogroup - never heard of this and went to Wikipedia to check it out but will have to do further research to understand what it is all about - more on this at a later date.  Actually it all sounded like Greek to me!

Mary Post Warren

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