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Over
the decades, we have gathered hundreds and hundreds of photos of
individuals and groups in the families contained on this
website. Using portraits and extracting individuals from group
pictures, we have constructed pages that show a person at
various ages from our earliest to our oldest image. Where
possible, we have pictures of married couples through the years
also.
On the right is an example page
for Sally (Eipperle) Guy. Click on the image to see a full size
version There are total of 140 people included in this
section...so far. |
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Starting
with the first family members who came from Europe (August
Heiden, Heinrich Rambow, George Getty and others) we have pulled
together individual pictures to place in a family grouping. This
includes people in the first three generations in America such
as Gen1) August Heiden Gen2) William Carl Heiden and Gen3)
Arthur Heiden.
Each page contains the parents
and their children where applicable. The picture to left shows
my family with my parents, Arthur and Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden.
Click on it to see the full size. There are over 65 family
pages.
We
have also added pages to show August Heiden's 38 grandchildren
and another to show his 106 great grandchildren. For William
Carl Heiden, we have a page that shows all of his 38
grandchildren in alphabetical and chronological order.
We are missing some pictures for
the great grandchildren of August and Rika Heiden. If you have
an image that you would share, please let us know.There is an
email connection at the bottom of each page.
There is also a page with
4 or 5 generation
photos. |
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For
about 170 people, we have individual pictures on separate pages.
For those with multiple images on the website, there is an index
page with thumbnail images that will lead to a larger version
with captions. If, for example, four people are included in a
group image, a thumbnail of that image will appear on all four
personal index pages.
Some pictures have people we have
not been able to identify. If you know their name, please let us
know. There is an email connection on each page. |
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Starting
in 1921 and ending in 2002, the Heidens of Monroe County held 61
family reunions. They were a yearly event held mostly on the
Fourth of the July and only two events were cancelled in the
1920s through the 1970s. Two reunions were held in the 1980s and
the last two in 2000 and 2002.
We have accumulated over 85
images from these reunions. These range from the 1920s up to the
final one in 2002. |
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 Ancestry.com
has a collection of digitized high school yearbooks from across
the U.S. We have gathered together pictures for over 60 family
members to show their activities and senior pictures from high
schools across Michigan and in Toledo, Ohio. These range from
1929 to the 1970s.
Note: Many of these
group pictures need to be viewed on a computer monitor for best
effect. |
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The
Village of Dundee was the center of the lives of many of the
people in the families covered in this website. It was the
location of Dundee Community Schools, a place of employment for
people and a small shopping center for the community. We have
gathered historical pictures of Dundee showing how it looked
from the early 1900s into the 1960s. Included are newspaper ads
for local stores to give you an idea of the prices and products
available to the people who shopped in Dundee. |
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Bridge
School is the oldest public school in Michigan. It was
established in 1828 in Raisinville Township and was the
educational hub for the first three or four American generations
of our families. It was a one-room school with one teacher who
handled from kindergarten to the eighth grade.
We have accumulated pictures from
the early twentieth century to when the school was closed in the
late 1940s. That was when it was consolidated into the Dundee
Community Schools system. |
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The
Lutheran church was very important in the lives of the German
heritage people of Raisinville and Dundee Townships. We have
many pictures of activities at St Matthew Lutheran Church and
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. |
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We
have accumulated a number of 8 mm films and VHS video tapes of
family activities ranging back to the 1940s. There are also
several audio tapes of interviews with family members. Later in
2025, we will get these digitized and make them available.
Please check back after June 1, 2025. |
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We
have pulled together a large number of links to all of the
photos found on this website. This includes images of
individuals, groups, reunions, school pictures, locations and
other pictures associated with all of the families in this
website. |
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