The direct line from Reynier van der Sluijs to today — shown with each generation's brothers, sisters, and spouses, plus the families who married in. A companion to the Eleven Generations pedigree, which follows the single direct line.
The GEDCOM file imports into Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, WikiTree and other genealogy software. It carries source citations for each person and event (archive, record and call number, with a link back to the story on this site), and place names in a standard form.
Each block is one generation: the couple who carried the line, then their children. Green marks the person who carries each line forward.
Reynier was the first of the family in America. The Dutch records reach two generations further back, to his parents and grandparents in Dordrecht. How we know →
From Reynier, who reached Germantown about 1701, to the present day.
Every descendant of Corporal Aaron H. Vanderslice, who died of his Gettysburg wounds in 1863, that the records have turned up so far: all his children's branches, not only ours. Open a name to see that family. Green marks our line; living people are shown by first name only.
Families that married into the Vanderslice line — each traced from its own oldest known ancestor down to the person who joined it. My mother's side comes in two: her father's Cellucci line, from Rapino in Italy, and her mother's Nothstein line, which joined it when Floretta Nothstein married Carmine Cellucci in 1944.
The tree follows two sides of my family. My father's is the Vanderslice line, from Reynier van der Sluijs, who reached Germantown around 1701, together with the Sailer family of my great-grandmother Laura and the Bealer family of my grandmother Gertrude. My mother's is the Cellucci line from Rapino, Italy, and the Nothstein line of Pennsylvania Germans who arrived in 1750. The data is also available as a GEDCOM file you can import into Ancestry, FamilySearch, or other genealogy software. Living relatives other than my parents and me appear by first name only, without dates, and are marked private in the GEDCOM file.
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