My mission in family history research My name is Doug Spoon. Growing up, I always figured with a name like that, I was the only Doug Spoon in the world. But since I started researching my family history in the late 1990s, coinciding with the advent of the internet, I now know there are at least four other Doug Spoons in the United States. Simply put, my mission is constantly expanding. (Click on the link to read more).

The legend of Jake Spoon Which of our ancestors was Jake Spoon? Was he a horse thief or merely a cow-punching cowboy? And was the character in the book and movie "Lonesome Dove" based on this Spoon ancestor? You decide. (Click on the link to read more)

Our ancestors' final years in Germany Researchers aren’t sure why the Löffler family moved from its longtime homeland of Hohenhaslach about 35 miles northwest to the town of Sinsheim, but records show three Loffler brothers had sailed separately to America by the 1740s. (Click on the link to read more)

"John the Immigrant" The Loffler brothers' years in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania were marked by their activity in the Trinity Lutheran Church. Before long, however, at least some of them were headed to North Carolina. (Click on the link to read more).

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