Family History for Bill Pringle

Introduction
Letters from Catharina Flink (CatharinaFlink.html)
Leiden Family Tree (leiden/index.htm)
Gill Family Tree (gill/index.htm)
Preston Family Tree ( preston/index.htm)
Smith Family Tree ( smith/index.htm)
Autobiography of William C. Pringle (wcp1/wcp.html)
Life Memories of William C. Pringle (wcp2/LifeMemories.html)

Introduction

This page contains a collection of family history items pertaining to Bill Pringle. If you are related to, or know something about anyone mentioned in these pages, please let me know.

A family history book was created by Leo Leiden in 1967, with an addendum in 1977. Additional information has been uncovered since then, and we are actively working on updating the information with the hopes of publishing a new volume. If you are a descendent of the Leiden family, you can send me a list of the recent information, including names, dates of births, deaths, marriages, and any pertinent information you think should be included. I will compile all the updates and publish a new book. If you don't have a copy of Leo's books, let me know who you descended from and I can email you what I have, then you can send me the updates.

The following pages have information on our ancestors, starting with Jacob John Leiden's generation. I did not want to include any more recent information on the web, but will be glad to send whatever current information I have to any relative.

Letters from Catharina Flink: This page contains a series of letters that were written in German from Catharina Flink to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth Leyden. Catharina was the sister of Adam J. Leiden, and Elizabeth was Adam's wife. They were translated into English by a friend of the family. (Elizabeth is my mother's mother's father's mother.); She wrote these letters about once a year during the period from 1889 through 1912 (usually near the end of the year), and they discuss the news from Germany. These letters allowed me to identify some family members, as well as provided some information on death dates. They also mention people that I'm not sure who they are.; I have included foot notes for what I was able to figure out, and would welcome information, suggestions, etc. from others.
Leiden Family Tree: These pages list all of the information I currently know about the Leiden family, starting with the family of my mother's mother's parents: Jacob John Leiden and his wife, Barbara Abel.; I discovered that the Mormon Church has microfilms of the church records for Sondernheim, Rhineland, Prussia, where the family originated. I was able to scan these films and now have them on my PC hard drive. This makes looking up information fairly easy, and allowed me to find a lot of information that we didn't have before, as well as to correct some of the records we already had. I have included images of the various records that have been found (or at least, those that have been captured.); Pedigree Chart for Jacob Leiden; Pedigree Chart for Barbara Abel
Gill Family Tree: These pages have everything I know so far about the Gill family, starting with my mother's father's family (William Murl Gill); Much of the information in these pages were obtained from Patricia Burchfield. Many thanks!; Pedigree Chart for William Murl Gill
Preston Family Tree: This is all we know about my father-in-laws ancestors.; Pedigree Chart for Robert William Preston; Ancestry Chart for Robert William Preston
Smith Family Tree: These are the ancestors of my wife's mother.; Pedigree Chart for Ruth Elizabeth Smith; Ancestry Chart for Ruth Elizabeth Smith
Autobiography of William C. Pringle: This autobiography was created from a series of tapes that William C. Pringle made for his son, Bill.
Life Memories of William C. Pringle: An abbreviated autobiography of William C. Pringle, based on a tape made for his daughter, K.C.