Scheifele, Schauffele, Shively Family Reunion June 1, 2019 In Stuttgart, Germany

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FAMILY REUNION  JUNE 1, 2019 STUTTGART – BAD CANNSTATT, GERMANY ---

Michael Schauffele, Visalia, California is busy preparing for the family reunion on Saturday, June 1, 2019 in Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt, Germany.  You can view all information pertaining to the reunion at www.Schauffele-family.net  He has requested that if interested please register by Sunday, March 3, 2019.  Michael is also planning for a “cyber-family-reunion” over the Internet for those who are not able to attend the reunion in person.

            The reunion is for all distant relatives and all “surname-related” people who are descendants of Hans Scheif(f)elin, who lived about 1500 in or near Gingen upon Fils, Baden-Wurttemberg/Germany, and of Hans Scheiffelin born about 1570, +21(?) Dec. 1616 as well in Gingen upon Fils. 

            A provisional schedule and list of events for the Reunion on Saturday, June 1, 2019 include:

11:00-12:00 – arrival of participants and “meet and greet” by members of the Kaj-Domnik Schauffele family

12:30-12:45 – welcome of participants by Michael Schauffele and Horacio Percossi

12:45-14:00 – buffet and opportunity to make acquaintances

14:00-14:45 – lecture by Michael Schauffele and Horacio Percossi

About 15:30 – opening of coffee table with cakes and Swabian “Butter-Pretzels”

Discussion of the topic “Shall there be further reunions in the future?”

At 19:00 – dinner

            A little more information about Michael Schauffele – He is co-administrator of the Shively Family DNA project at FamilyTree DNA. He is the initiator of the above reunion in Germany.  He was born in Stuttgart/Germany on 24-Jul-1942. In 1969 he graduated from the University of Stuttgart with a degree in structural and civil engineering. In 1963 he married Renate Christine Hofman and they have 3 sons and 5 grandchildren. For 40 years he was owner and general manager of a medium-sized group of companies in the area of Stuttgart concerning construction of all kinds of buildings, homebuilding, project development, architectural and engineering offices. In 1983 he and his wife bought a small ranch with the name of “German-S- Ranch” near the city of Visalia, CA. In 2003 they immigrated to live full time on the ranch growing oranges, grapefruit and olives while leasing the pasture to cattle breeders. Michael is still doing business in Schweiberdingen, close to Stuttgart, leasing out an office building which is locally managed by his youngest son, Kaj-Domnnik Schauffele. For almost 40 years Michael’s time for genealogy research was limited by his business career. From about 2013 he started intensively researching again. Finding relatives scattered around the world became the main focus of his family research. Michael is hoping to be able to summarize his genealogy research and write a family chronicle about “The descendants of the two Scheiffele from Gingen upon Fils” to preserve his family history for future generations.