Fechter Genealogy Page

  I'm always ready to add new pages or link to existing pages for Fechters around the world who are searching for or have found others with the same surname.

Date this page was last edited:  Monday, 28 December, 2009

Wolfgangus Fechter (photo from Alexander Fechter, Vienna Austria). Alexander obtained it from a physician in Brussels, Belgium. The photo shows the date 1536. No other information is available.

Charles Albert Fechter. Cornell University Library database

Click here  for  History about the Fechter name

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• ... Connections to Fechters in the Fisher Family Tree  
• Alan Spier, Glastonbury (a suburb of Hartford), Connecticut, USA
•  Alexander Fechter; journalist in Vienna, Austria
•    Angela Fechter e-mail
•     Barbara Wilkinson (descendant of Marie Anne Fechter Dutter), Texas 
•      Evelyn "Lyn" Fechter Masnor, Willow Springs, Missouri [deceased 2008] web listing on this site
•       Fechters in The Netherlands web page
•         Fredric Fechter, professional pool instructor
•           Hans Goedhart (wife is named Fechter)
•           Rob Fechter (Brother-in-law to Hans Goedhart)
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• George A. Fechter, chief executive officer of the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Center for Artificial Organ Development.
• Hermann Fechter, Niederndorf, Austria
•  Jean Claude Fechter, Alsace area, France
•   Johannes Fechter, and his wife, Elke, live in Roth, Germany, south of  Nürnberg. Send e-mail to him. And click here to see a bit of local history
•    John V. Fechter, Sr., Bozeman, Montana
•     Kirk Fechter web page. West coast Fechter; retired from the US Army Reserve March 2006
•      Lambert Fechter Municipal Airport, Hartley, Iowa, USA. (This is a place, not a person)
•        Leonard Jerald Moors, Jr., Santa Rosa, California; a professional pianist-arranger.
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• Marlene Brill  (father is Matthias Fechter), Canada
•  Marie Fechter Wilson (grandfather was Albert J. Fechter)
•   Marlise Fechter, South Africa
•    Mildred May Fisher-Fechter, and links to the Fechter family in Calistoga, California.
•            Troy Goss has a number of other links as well, and a listing of descendants of John Fechter from Baden, Germany. Click to see photo of Mildred-May Fisher-Fechter.
• NY Fechters, Buffalo, NY Fechters hold an annual family reunion. Click here for details.
• Maryann McGeever, in Willoughby, Ohio
•   Silke Fechter, Alsace area, France
•     Simon Fechter, Frankfurt, Germany
•       S Eickstedt, USA

Sad story about Peter Fechter, from East Berlin, one of the first persons killed at the Berlin Wall, in 1962. 

In April 2001, Ellis Island officials and the Mormon Church introduced a new , on-line database. It contains records of the arrival of over 22 million immigrants who entered the Port of New York between the years 1892-1924. Click here to jump to that database. Note that it is very busy and it may require multiple attempts before you make a connection.

Other genealogical resources that can help you locate family:

Ancestry.com

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) 

How to Obtain Birth or Death Certificates

Berliner Morgenpost Newspaper

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

National Archives and Records Administration

ROOTSWEB

Genealogy.com

YOURFAMILY.ORG

Search and Research Publishing, Inc. 

Fechters Furniture Manfacturer (South Africa)

AnyWho

John Vadnais Fechter, Jr.

My part of the Fechter family tree came from Ellenbach, Bavaria. It is near Hersbruck, which is north of Nürnberg, Germany (people spell it as Nuremberg in the USA).

Click here for a map of the Ellenbach and Hersbruck areas. Files are big so it may take a minute or two to download. 

Seal of the city of Hersbruck

Nürnberg On-Line

Fencing Anyone?

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