I am a chip off the old block genealogist, having taken it up from my father who studied the Speicher/Spiker/Spicher and other various spellings of the family name as well as other family lines. He was well known by other Speicher family searchers and would help anyone who would ask as will I. We lost Dad in Aug of 2019 and then Mom in May of 2020.

We, well, I, now have over 104,000 names in the tree mostly related to Speicher and 62 various spellings of the name.

I am a retired research librarian having worked in universities as well as the corporate world for an architectural/engineering firm, chemical company, law firm and a real estate investment firm. So researching comes naturally to me and it is my second love after my children and grandchildren. Obviously, I love them to the moon and back.

My current project is going through newspapers.com month by month looking through every time the name Speicher occurs fixing any mistakes in it's listing, updating my tree, posting all birth, death, marriage announcement onto ancestry and updating FAG with the information that I find if it is missing on FAG and can verify it elsewhere. . I started with 1900 and I'm in 1959. I have finished checking the newspapers for the name Spiker and Spicher
I check obituaries on legacy by keyword every week for all 62 variations of the Speicher, Spiker, etc. spellings of the name. I have also gone through all of the FAGs for the Speicher spelling and most of the Spiker spelling to update the tree and see if we were missing anything and updated FAG where the FAG site was incomplete. I finished going through all of the legacy newspapers seeking the various spellings of our name using the keyword search of obituaries and picked up many names of children and grandchildren I did not have, of course, cross referenced.

If you have any questions for me, please ask. I am happy to help anyone with their family searching questions.

I am a chip off the old block genealogist, having taken it up from my father who studied the Speicher/Spiker/Spicher and other various spellings of the family name as well as other family lines. He was well known by other Speicher family searchers and would help anyone who would ask as will I. We lost Dad in Aug of 2019 and then Mom in May of 2020.

We, well, I, now have over 104,000 names in the tree mostly related to Speicher and 62 various spellings of the name.

I am a retired research librarian having worked in universities as well as the corporate world for an architectural/engineering firm, chemical company, law firm and a real estate investment firm. So researching comes naturally to me and it is my second love after my children and grandchildren. Obviously, I love them to the moon and back.

My current project is going through newspapers.com month by month looking through every time the name Speicher occurs fixing any mistakes in it's listing, updating my tree, posting all birth, death, marriage announcement onto ancestry and updating FAG with the information that I find if it is missing on FAG and can verify it elsewhere. . I started with 1900 and I'm in 1959. I have finished checking the newspapers for the name Spiker and Spicher
I check obituaries on legacy by keyword every week for all 62 variations of the Speicher, Spiker, etc. spellings of the name. I have also gone through all of the FAGs for the Speicher spelling and most of the Spiker spelling to update the tree and see if we were missing anything and updated FAG where the FAG site was incomplete. I finished going through all of the legacy newspapers seeking the various spellings of our name using the keyword search of obituaries and picked up many names of children and grandchildren I did not have, of course, cross referenced.

If you have any questions for me, please ask. I am happy to help anyone with their family searching questions.