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Name	Citation Document	Biography	Overview of the Mannigel Family The Mannigel name is a German name but a rather rare one. The Mannigels come from the Berlin – Brandenburg area of what was Prussia and later became Germany. Because of a major boundary change after World War II giving the area east of the Oder River to Poland, the areas from which many left are now in Poland with Polish village names. The German population that lived in that area was forced back across the river into the German area that was East Germany. Mannigels are scattered throughout the United States, a line in South America, another in Australia, and in present day Germany, of course, and those are just the ones I’ve come across. The Mannigels came to America from a troubled and poverty-ridden Germany seeking a better life for themselves and their families. Barely surviving in their native country, plagued by less than comfortable economic conditions, the constant threat of conscription, and the desire for greater opportunities, the various Mannigel lines started appearing especially in the 1870s and 1880s in Wisconsin. This is not by accident. If one looks at the names in the Brandenburg Emigration Index, many of the same names besides Mannigel from that area also appear later in the counties of Wisconsin. My line came in 1870 to Dodge County, Wisconsin. Why was this website started? In doing my genealogy, I had a almost impossible time doing my Mannigel genealogy. It took me years to figure out their history as they moved from Germany to Wisconsin to South Dakota to Minnesota and then the patriarch himself, dying in California. Incredible that my Carl Mannigel who left a rather primitive situation of middle 1800 Germany ended his life in sunny Long Beach. What was the most amazing part of the research occurred when I discovered that Carl Mannigel and his young family were living in Lowell Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin in 1875. AND at the same time there were two other Mannigel families. In a township of fewer than 800 families having three families with the same last name with even the exact same spelling could not simply be a coincidence. Surely they must have been related. The first line is the Carl and Bertha Grunewald Mannigel line (M1). The second line is the Frederick and Louise Mannigel line (M2). And the third is the William and Louise Poetter Mannigel family. This website is dedicated to working on more than those three lines because no one knows yet how intertwined all of the Mannigel families are. So information will be added on a continuing basis. If you have Mannigel heritage, then you should participate in the exchange of information to be put on this site. The more information, the more we will all learn. Contents There is either an individual citation page or a biography page (or both) for each Mannigel name in the left navigation bar. Each citation individual page contains the references found in the genealogical record to a Mannigel with that name. Sometimes the various people listed in a citation page have not been proven to be the same person. Sometimes they are in fact the same person but this must be proven. Once a Mannigel is fairly well defined, I have written a biography of that person. It is my intention to write biographies for each of the Mannigels listed so this web site is very much a work in progress.
Albert Mannigel	CIT	BIO (1879-1958)
Ambrosius Mannigel	CIT
Augusta Mannigel	CIT
Bertha Mannigel (Krause)		BIO (1868-1922)
Charles (Carl) Mannigel	CIT	BIO (1843-1931)
Emma Mannigel	CIT
Ernst Mannigel	CIT
Frederick Mannigel		BIO (1839-1878)
Friedrich Mannigel	CIT
Helmuth Mannigel	CIT	BIO (1890-1971)
Herman Mannigel	CIT
Johanna Mannigel	CIT
John (Johann) Mannigel	CIT	BIO (1856-1925)
John Mannigal		BIO (1904-1998)
John Charles Mannigel		BIO (1871-1922)
Louise Mannigel	CIT
Oswald Mannigel	CIT
Otto Mannigel	CIT	BIO
Paul Mannigel	CIT
Robert Mannigel	CIT
Wilhelm Mannigel		BIO
William Mannigel		BIO (1847-1925)
William Mannigel (2)	CIT
Others Mannigels	CIT

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