Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Joseph ALTER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1800 b
  • Death: 1861 in Plum Twp, Allegheny Co, Pennsylvania d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • David ALTER Birth: 7 Feb 1775 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1 Feb 1838 in Washington Co, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth MELL Birth: 1779 Death: 1 Jun 1837

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Nancy ALTER Birth: 1829
  2. Elizabeth ALTER Birth: 1835
  3. Rebecca ALTER Birth: 1837
  4. Joseph ALTER Birth: 1842
  5. Samuel ALTER Birth: 1846
  6. Uriah ALTER Birth: 1849

Bibliography
  1. Groff, Clyde L, Walter B Groff, Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, Ronks, PA: Groff History Associates, 1985. NYPL APV (Groff) 86-1589 v1. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p[0-9]*].
  2. Sterling, Nancy, Alter family, private email, 11/16/2002. Author address: DSterlp at aol dot com Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Nancy Sterling 11/16/2002].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: GroffCL GROFF p55, Nancy Sterling 11/16/2002],
parents:
[Ref: GroffCL GROFF p55, Nancy Sterling 11/16/2002]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: GroffCL GROFF p55, Nancy Sterling 11/16/2002],
place:
[Ref: Nancy Sterling 11/16/2002]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret DINSMORE
names:
[Ref: GroffCL GROFF p55],
child:
[Ref: Nancy Sterling 11/16/2002]
Research Notes:



Pedigree of Joseph ALTER
                   /-----John Heinrich ALTER
          /-----Jacob ALTER
 /-----David ALTER
|        |                                                      /-----Hans LANDIS
|        |                                             /-----Hans LANDIS
|        |                                            |         \-----Katharine SCHINZ
|        |                                    /-----Hans LANDIS
|        |                                   |         \-----Barbara HOCHSTRASSER
|        |                           /-----Hans Heinrich LANDIS
|        |                          |        |         /-----Uli ERTZINGER
|        |                          |         \-----Elsbeth ERTZINGER
|        |                  /-----Hans LANDIS
|        |                 |         \-----Barbara BUELER
|        |         /-----Henry LANDIS
|        |        |         \-----Anna GOOD
|         \-----Margaret LANDIS
|                 |                                    /-----Hans GRAF
|                 |                           /-----Jakob GRAF
|                 |                          |         \-----Elsbeth PETER
|                 |                  /-----Marx GRAF
|                 |                 |        |         /-----Jacob SPORRI
|                 |                 |         \-----Anna SPORRI
|                 |         /-----Hans GROFF
|                  \-----Veronica GROFF
|                          |                           /-----Peter KUNDIG
|                          |                  /-----Jorg KUNDIG
|                          |         /-----Hans Jagli KUNDIG
|                          |        |         \-----Barbel HUFFELBERG
|                           \-----Susanna KENDIG
|                                   |         /-----Martin MEILI
|                                    \-----Elsbeth MEILI
|                                             \-----Barbara BAR
Joseph ALTER
|         /-----Adam MELL
 \-----Elizabeth MELL
          \-----Barbara (MELL)



Descendants of Joseph ALTER
1. Joseph ALTER m. Margaret DINSMORE
m. Margaret DINSMORE