This is a central site where Jim & Charl Neiers hope to share data about their 
ancestors' families.  Jim's side includes Neiers, Scheckel, Loes, Clancy, 
Entringer, Mousel, Gehlen, Connor, Reichling, Weber, Graff, Huber, Klein, 
Hoffman, Thoma, Kneip, Wolf, Rucken, and Conter.  Charl's side includes 
Schemmel, Kremer, Bisenius, Shaffer, Hopply, Soisson, Moran, Scheitler, Kurt, 
Sauser, Jacob, Widner, Madigan, Frederich, Steltenkamp, and Dillon.  These 
families are mostly from Luxembourg, Alsace, Westphalia, and Ireland.  They 
all had a large presence in the eastern Iowa area of western Dubuque, Jones, 
Delaware, and Jackson Counties.  Many originally settled around St Donatus in 
Jackson County or New Vienna in Dubuque County with a common meeting around 
Cascade in Dubuque County.  Some branches of these families went to western 
Iowa and from there spread to Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Kansas.  
There were many marriages of siblings to siblings, large families, and common 
relationships among these families.