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Acknowledgements
In October, 1998, I
visited the home of a seventh and an eighth generation cousin, Janie Reid Kaigler West (click here to see her childhood home) and her daughter
Betty Anne West Schauer. They treated me with the warmth that I would expect from my
immediate family. Cousin Janie died on my birthday, April 2, 1999. It was a
privilege to have known her. I greatly appreciate their hospitality and willingness
to contribute to my knowledge of the Kaigler family and to the development of this
web-page. One of their contributions is a picture taken at the (click on the
title) 1940 Family Reunion in Columbia,
SC. For a numbered version with partial names supplied by Janie Reid Kaigler West
click on 1940 Kaigler Family Reunion.
There have been numerous
individuals who have documented Kaigler history. I have copies of Historical
Southern Families, Volume X , compiled by Robert V. Parr of Dallas, TX. and The
History of Our Family in the Southern United States compiled by David A. Peterson and
Bama Sellars Kosirnik. Other sources include History of Terrell County,
from which I have limited excerpts, from the website of the Orangeburgh German-Swiss
Genealogical Society edited and maintained by Gene Jeffries and from contributors to many
other genealogical web pages including
www.Genealogy.com.
Harry L. (Hank) Spigner, Jr. compiled an early detailed accounting from which I have
only excerpts.
In late 2000, Ruth Price
of Denham Springs, LA contributed a considerable amount of data dealing primarily with the
descendants of Andrew Kaigler, Jr. who settled in Mississippi. Her work is well
documented and represents what is obviously years of dedication. We are all very
grateful for her hard work. A copy of her work may be downloaded by clicking on the
following Microsoft Word Document MatKaigler.doc
and saving it on your computer.
There are some
conflicting data presented in my holdings of these compilations. I have attempted to
edit and blend the data into a meaningful dialog. Hopefully I
have given adequate credit to each
contributor. Questions and corrections to the data on this website are welcome.
Please feel free to
contribute copies of pictures and maps, stories about our ancestors and anything else
relevant to the people, historical events and areas involved in our collective histories.
I will welcome all contributions and gladly add them to this site.
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This site should not be
used as the authority or as documentation on the Kaigler family or any other families
named herein. While much of the data has been well documented some of the
information has not been verified for accuracy. The data on this site
is provided as a helpful aid in
your personal research on the individual family.
Commercial use of this data is
prohibited.
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The current
count
of the descendants of Andrew Kaigler named on this site is over 1,800
with generations still to add....
Floyd Lee Kaigler
e-mail address:
floyd@kaigler.org
Last updated
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