GREUEL FAMILY

I have decided to research my last name. Mostly because I knew nothing about my dad's side of the family.

GREUEL DEFINITION AND ORIGIN

• Greuel means Terror, horror, fear, ect.
• "Greuel"s origin is Germany
• "Greuel" also means: one who spreads fear among his enemies.

GREUEL PEOPLE

• Mostly everyone on my dads side of the family shares the "Greuel" last name.
• A very well known public speaker that goes by the name Wendy Greuel, is the most famous person we have in our family.

IMMIGRATION

• The "Greuel"s first came to America in 1843 from Germany.
• Many Germans immigrated to America between the the year of 1820-World War 1
• From the years 1840-1880, Germans were the largest group of immigrants.

WHY DID THE "GREUEL"S IMMIGRATE?

• After the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815 the German economy was suffering.
• The potato famine of 1840

WHERE GERMANS SETTLED

• German Americans are most densely settled in the traditional "German belt" of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa.

FAMILY TRADITIONS

• The "Greuel" family really doesn't have any Traditions except gathering on Christmas and Thanksgiving.
• I am thinking about starting a Family book that I can pass on to my children for generations.

I wouldn't want to be in any other family.