Today, two generations later, these descendants have created a new, viable ENGEL family.
Several successful reunions have been held, although the family is scattered over all continents.
Our family tree has passed the two thousand membership mark. Many articles and a book have
been published about our family.
This web site replaces The ENGEL Family Newsletter which I published from time to
time. An other major purpose for this page is to facilitate the communication between family
members, by providing an up-to-date listing of e-mail addresses. To view the current list and/or
send a message to a listed family member click on the E-mail Directory button
on the menu on the left.
The menu on the left also provides links to births, marriages and other news of significant
interest to our family members. Recently, I introduced the capability of including appropriate
pictures of new babies or marriage couples. I hope to chronicle such items as important
accomplishments, distinguished honors, and other valuable or interesting events that happened
to members of our family. If there is sufficient interest, I would like to enhance the In
Memoriam section with brief obituaries. Another section presents interesting stories
about some of our family members. These can be viewed by clicking on the Family
Stories link on the menu. To accomplish this, I depend on contributions from you.
A family, such as ours, is a very dynamic organization. New marriages are celebrated and
new children are born. We are also losing some of our dearest relatives. Changes are now
reported almost weekly. To keep us aware of all these changes I try to keep the linked pages,
mentioned above, current. In addition, two "lost" family branches have been rediscovered, some
program enhancements have been made, and some software "bugs" have been fixed. Thus, the
software evolved through a number (nineteen) new versions since it's first publication in 1954.
For those of you that are interested in the database changes and progressive improvements, you
may view summaries of the most recent changes (about a five-year span) by clicking the
Family Tree Info button on the menu.
I have added a list of all the family names that appear in the ENGEL Family
Tree. You can view it by clicking on the ENGEL Family Names button
on the menu.
Those of you who purchased The ENGEL Family book, realize that the information you
received was current only as of 1994. Since that time our family increased from just under 1800
members to over 2250. In addition, there have been several program enhancements introduced
(see Family Tree Info link on the left). Here is an opportunity for you to
receive a diskette with the up-to-date family information and associated software.
To obtain your free upgrade:
A diskette with the updated software should be shipped to you within a couple of
weeks.
For those of you who moved your operating system to Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows
XP and later systems, it may not be possible for you to use these diskettes. This is because the
operating systems do not fully support DOS-based programs. I am currently looking into the
possibility of modifying my programs to a Windows environment, but as of now, I don't even
know whether this is possible. I will keep you informed of progress (if any).
For those of you, who have not purchased a copy of the book, there are still copies available.
The 326-page book, The ENGEL Family, contains family tree charts and associated
indices and a host of additional family information. It is published together with a computer
diskette containing the entire family data base and all the software required to perform a number
of genealogical searches on DOS-type computers (i.e., not Apple Mac). Most of the computers
running on MS Windows provide a MS DOS option, which is a DOS-emulated environment (but
not real DOS). In almost all cases (exceptions, see previous paragraph) this permits running the
family tree diskette. Full instructions, even for the novice user, are included. For further
information, check with the publishers, Genealogical Data Systems, via the link provided on the
menu, or below. If you order a copy of the book/diskette package, indicate whether you prefer
the original version or the upgraded version of the diskette.
This page is maintained by me (Jan M. Engel; E-mail: engel@kinology.org). Please keep
me informed about any births, marriages, deaths and other significant news items about our
family members. In each case, please include the actual date and location name. I also welcome
any suggestions for improvements or other comments.