Descendants and Ancestors (*Including Other Known Variations of Dillmann, Stillman, Tillmann, Dielman, Dhyllmann, Dihlmann, Dillaman, Tighlman, Dieleman, Etc.)

Vol 12, No. 2

Dillman* Dec 2019 - Feb 2020

Descendants and Ancestors (*Including other known variations of Dillmann, Stillman, Tillmann, Dielman, Dhyllmann, Dihlmann, Dillaman, Tighlman, Dieleman, etc.)

The Official Publication of the Dillman Family Association – Published Quarterly DGC 2020 Planned for Harrisburg, PA! www.dillmanfamilyassociation.org “Cousins by Choice” We are a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies. Phil Dillman – Editor [email protected]

Don Dillman – Co-Editor Andrew Stillman – Co-Editor

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

1. President’s Corner 2. Genealogical Conference Tentative Schedule 3. Dillman Genealogical Conference Registration 4. Update on Migration Project 5. Connections Made - Banat Dillman Cousins Located! 6. Bradford Dillman Reprise 7. Finding Genealogy in a Quilt 8. Was Ötzi the Iceman a Dillman? 9. Found on Facebook 10. Dillmans of South Africa 11. Our Dillman Family 12. Local Reunion Schedules 1 REMINDER: Check the DFA Website Forum occasionally for great inquiries!

1. President’s Corner - by Don A. Dillman

In August the Dillman Family Association will be holding its 10th Biennial Genealogical Conference (DGC 2020) at the Country Inn Suites in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I hope you will be able to come! It promises to be the most revealing get-together for understanding Dillman family heritage we have had since we began this effort to identify Dillman family lines in 2002. The tentative agenda and registration form are on the next two pages of this newsletter.

Will events related to the Corona virus (COVID-19) make it necessary to change our plans? We don’t know, but the leadership group is actively monitoring the situation and will announce on our web page www.dillmanfamilyassociation.org any changes in plans. In the meantime the planning continues.

This year’s conference theme is “Migration Pathways Around the World” and we want to invite everyone to share what they know about where their Dillman family line originated and has moved through the years. Articles in this newsletter describe what makes this theme important, and some of what we’ll be discussing in Harrisburg. Andrew Stillman has located more than 85,000 records of Dillman births, marriages, movements, and deaths in countries throughout the world. In the first article of this issue he provides an Update on the Migration Records Project. A second article, Connections Made—Banat Dillman Cousins Located, describes how these records were connected with previous searches by DFA members to locate descendants of the “Conrad Dillmann” line. The surprising conclusion was to find some of these descendants in Chicago! A third article, The Travels of Bradford Dillman, a well-known Dillman whose acting adventures were described in several past issues of the newsletter, illustrates the analytic capabilities of the migration record project to help understand the travels of Dillmans across countries.

In the next article, Was Otzi the Iceman a Dillman? Andrew Stillman speculates, whether the body of a person frozen more than 5,000 years ago in the Italian Alps, might have been a Dillman cousin. This essay takes us deep into the importance of haplogroups for understanding our individual genetic heritage.

But, the DFA is about much more than genetic descent connections that have resulted in approximately 20 different family lines identified through paternal DNA testing. An article, by Joye and Don Dillman, Finding Genealogy in a Quilt reports an accidental discovery of family connections preserved in a church-sponsored quilt that connected Dillman migrants and community from one state with another a few hundred miles away. The importance of hand-crafted artifacts in describing and preserving family identity will be part of the DGC 2020 get-together.

When the DFA was formed in 2002 the provocative question asked by those who attended was simply, are we related to each other, and how might that be. When it became apparent from the historical records being assembled under the guidance of Phil Dillman and the addition of genetic testing showed that there were different Dillman family lines, our mantra became, “cousins by choice”. By bringing to our meetings and sharing whatever each of us knew about our Dillman (Stillman, Dihlmann, Tillman, etc.) heritage, we helped each other gather information about our individual ancestries that we knew nothing about. One of my personal memories is standing among the library resources when one DFA member discovered that someone else had a picture of her great-grandmother, the first image of her she had seen. I am anxious to see what new pieces of family history get assembled or reassembled in Harrisburg.

Don A. Dillman DFA President 2018-2020

2 2. Dillman Genealogical Conference (DGC 2020) Tentative Program

Thursday Evening (August 13): Access to the DFA Library materials with the latest detail on individual family lines, pictures, and other information to help attendees learn new details about their Dillman family line.

Friday and Saturday (August 14 and 15): Which Dillman family lines have been added to or extended to more generations? Since DGC 2018 in Indianapolis we have identified several new Dillman family lines involving more countries. Others have been extended further back in time (http://www.dillmanfamilyassociation.org/ddna/dnaindex.htm)

Migration Pathways around the world. For many Dillman family lines that we have identified by DNA testing we can now trace their migration across continents and centuries. All attendees are invited to share what they know about their Dillman ancestors’ pathway to the present in a presentation and/or a poster to be set-up in the library.

The Really Big Picture on who is a Dillman. In just the last year we have found about 85,000 Dillman records, ranging from birth and death records to ship crossings for various spellings in addition to Dillman, e.g. Tillman, Dihlmann, Dahlmann,and Diehlman. How these discoveries were made and a discussion of what they mean will be part of our program. An article in the next issue of our DFA Newsletter will describe the progress already made.

Is it a good idea to get DNA tests from multiple companies? When the DFA was formed in 2002, we encouraged members to get a paternal DNA test through Family Treemaker. That made it possible to identify different genetic lines of Dillmans. Now there are many different organizations offering various kinds of testing to help identify heritage. We will have discussions of different possibilities for testing, and whether getting tests from different companies will move our understanding of Dillman family lines forward.

Quilts/Taufschein, and their fascinating contribution to preserving family heritage. Some DFA members have learned about certain aspects of their heritage through friendship quilts, community quilts, church quilts and other efforts. At least one of the presentations at this year’s DGC 2020 will reveal how movement from one state to another was preserved through a church’s quilt. Other examples will also be shared such as the Taufschein crafted in local Pennsylvania German communities to mark important events in a family’s life such as births, baptisms and marriages.

Unanticipated discoveries. At DGC 2018 one of our members was astonished when she was showed a picture of her great grandmother who she had never seen. We encourage all attendees to bring and share family information that may provide missing pieces of the family history puzzles another attendee would like to understand. A copy machine is brought to the conference to facilitate sharing.

Shared meals. It’s a tradition that we arrange to have evening meals on Friday and Saturday, at a local restaurant for all who are interested. The Country Inn Suites is located by a shopping center, with restaurants that will make this possible.

Plans for 2022. Where will we meet and when?

Please Note: Video conferencing facilities will be available for those who cannot attend in person. Please indicate on the Registration Form that you would like to make use of this option. Closer to the conference date, instructions will be provided on how to connect to the Conference electronically.

www.dillmanfamilyassociation.org 3 The DFA is a member of 10th Biennial Dillman Genealogical Conference

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania August 13 - 15, 2020 (See tentative agenda for details)

Hotel Reservations: Must be made by calling Hotel Directly. Country Inn & Suites by Raddison Hotel reservations must be received by July 13, 2020 1025 Peiffers Lane (near Union Deposit Rd.) Harrisburg, PA 17109 1-717-558-9200 The special group rate for the Dillman Family Association is $130/night plus taxes, and must be made by July 13th as stated above. The rate is available August 13 – 15, with checkout by the 16th. Be sure to specify the Dillman Family Association. Breakfast is included in this rate. Cancellations must be made 48 hours in advance. Reservations made after that date will be subject to availability and at the prevailing rate.

Dillman Genealogical Conference Reservations: Registration for the Conference is $50 if submitted or postmarked by July 20, 2020. (includes Conference attendance, 2020-2022 family membership in the Dillman Family Association, receipt of quarterly Newsletters to one email address, and one vote on DFA matters). Registration after July 20th or at door: $75 Membership only: If you are unable to attend the Genealogical Conference but wish to be a member of the Dillman Family Association, 2020-2022 dues are $25 and you will receive quarterly Newsletter by email, other DFA updates, and one vote on DFA matters. Members who want to receive Newsletter by post please add a donation of $20.00 for the two-year period ($2.50 X 8 issues). Two ways to pay: Electronic: Log into Paypal at www.paypal.com , set up a personal account and use the Send Money feature to deposit your payment into the DFA account using this e-mail address: [email protected]. Then, either send your completed registration by email to that address or by post to Louise Dillman McKinney at the address below. (Or) Send Check and Registration Form to Louise McKinney, Treasurer, Dillman Family Association, 1510 W Delmar Ave, Godfrey, IL 62035-1349, USA. Please email with any questions.

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PLEASE CHOOSE ONE Attending in person Remote/Video Conference attendance 4 4. Update on the Migration records Project - By G. Andrew Stillman, UEL The Dillman Family Association has been a member of the Guild of One Name Studies for several years now. The aim of both organizations is to foster the sharing and collection of information pertaining to a surname and its variants. In the case of the DFA, this is Dillman, Dillmann, Dielmann, Dihlmann, Tillmann, Stillman, etc. In fact, the Guild (or GOONS for short) greatly encourages the systematic collection of source records in the building out of genealogies with the objective of determining the origin or origins of surnames. The DFA began as a collection of researchers, genealogists, family historians interested in determining if and how they were connected. Records often were found in various source repositories for others with the same name and the collection of those records and piecing them together brought all of us together. Recognizing that the 10th Dillman Reunion/Conference (under the various names in vogue over our nearly 20 year history) was approaching, the excitement of how to mark this milestone ran through the DFA executive. The idea surfaced that one of the trickiest problems in any family research project was making the connection “across the pond”. Having developed contacts across several continents (North America, Africa, Europe and Australia) over the years really focused in on the connectedness of those named Dillman in the quest for identifying their Dillman ancestors. This gave birth to the thought that it was an appropriate time to zero in on the problem of getting “across the pond”, and migration in general, to begin a project of collecting all available records pertaining to migration. It was understood that this was going to be a vast but important project. In many respects this became a data heavy (and time consuming) and data driven project. The work began over the summer of 2019 to source records from the major data providers, primarily Ances- try.com (a subscription based service), FamilySearch.com (a free service but in the midst of a several year digitisation and transcription project themselves), FindMyPast (another subscription service) and MyHeritage (the new kid on the block). The first two were the primary sources used in the project. Ancestry.com is probably the most well known and has a very deep dataset covering the US, Canada, UK, South Africa, Europe, Australia and several other countries. FamilySearch, affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has a very extensive collection worldwide, offers their data free of charge, but much of the data is still only available on microfilm. In my personal view, the data on Ancestry.com often duplicates what is available at the Family History Library (where researchers access the microfilms held by the Church). The digitisation of the records by FamilySearch is often much better in quality and accuracy than those found on Ancestry.com. When deciphering handwriting for records where the original is not in the best shape, the FamilySearch records are for the most part much better source. Meanwhile, FindMyPast is probably the best source for UK records as they have far more records and variety of records at hand. MyHeritage specializes in Northern Europe and Jewish records. Over the summer and into the autumn, fully 85,371 records were harvested from Ancestry.com and FamilySearch. This is an amazing number. I had no idea there were so many records! Given the Dillman DNA project identified roughly 20 distinct DNA families of Dillman and related names, this was quite a sur- prise. I was expecting to see 100-200 records at most (given that there are duplicates held by the various data providers). Also, the online services use a variety of techniques to pull in records where there were possible spelling variants, transcription errors, misunderstandings of those speaking different languages from those taking note of the persons. The data providers tend to make use of Soundex and other algorithms to replicate the actual problems noted earlier. For instance, “T” and “D” can often sound the same so Tillman and Dillman aren’t very different. Dropping the double “l” or double ”n” is often a symptom of crossing the pond. Even in the English language over many centuries there have been shifts in the way vowels are pronounced. Pronun- ciation in North America and other former colonies can be very different from how names/words were pronounced in originating countries. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints augments their results with a thesaurus of sorts based on their vast experience of various languages, records, customs built up of the years linking certain surnames together. All in all, the pool of records was widened such that many names such as Del Monte, Del Marco were included in the records harvested.The actual primary source records include a

5 wide variety of items (295 source datasets were covered) Passenger lists at departing ports (ships, planes, railways) Passenger lists at arriving ports (as above) Crew lists Citizenship lists (ie, in Alsace-Lorraine – post the Franco-Prussian war of 1871, Prussia recorded the names of all residents of Alsace – effectively they moved from French citizenship to Prussian citizenship unwillingly overnight!) Applications for citizenship (declarations, petitions, oaths, naturalizations) Applications for passports Border crossings (rail, car, foot ie, from Canada to US to Mexico) Use of Consular services Police lists of immigrants (ie, an interesting set of records used in Belgium. When I moved to London, Eng- land on 2005, I was asked to register with my local police station, which I never did!) Emigration registers (Swedish churches and towns often kept track of who left their jurisdiction and where they were heading) The Lodz Poland Ghetto Transportation records

The next step in the project was to whittle down the 85,000+ records to something manageable for the Aug 2020 conference. In looking at the data, roughly 2/3 of the names began with the letter “T” and only 1/3 began with “D”. Apologies to those DFA and DDNA members whose surnames are Tillman/Tillmann/Tighlman etc, but with an eye on the conference, it was decided to focus on the “D” names. Other names captured in the initial search included complex names, hyphenated names, maiden names (such as Marjorie Rambeau Dillman Mcgaughy). For instance Garcia-Dillman, Barrazo-Talamantes, Daelamans, Dahlmann, Dolleman, Twellmann would have been picked up in the search. Once the arbitrary reduction in names down to the core variants was done (also eliminating Hispanic/Latin based names as we surmise that Dillman and variants are primarily Ger- manic in origin), there were 7610 records remaining (roughly 9%). Now that we have narrowed things down, the question was how to make them useful. The most manually intensive part of the project was just beginning. Every record is reviewed, cross referenced with others in the dataset and if at all possible, linked to existing known (and submitted) genealogies to the DFA. This step re- quires much patience and a good general understanding of the various Dillman lineages. Hence, it is very important for each DFA member to ensure that their family tree (paper, electronic, GEDCOM, etc) is lodged with the Archivist/Librarian and if possible, also with the Dillman DNA (DDNA) project administrator. At the time of the writing of this article in mid-December 2019, 256 individuals have been identified representing 3.4% of the 7610 records. At this point, 50 individuals were dumped into a grouping referred to as “unplaced”. These are primarily records which are incomplete, with either no first name or very undecipher- able letters, single initials, limited identifiers such as Mrs. (with no adjacent records with the same surname) or individuals whose names were incorrectly transcribed and when upon closer inspection are too different to even be considered a possibility. An “individual” was created when there was more than one person involved in the record or when there was more than one record for an “individual”, including when Ancestry and FamilySearch had the same record. These individuals were then assigned a unique identifier. The 3.4% of records processed is an underestimation as some individuals do represent multiple records (ie, often when there are ships lists departing Hamburg for New York, there was also a record of arrival in New York from Ham- burg – then if that person became a US citizen, there could be as many as 4 and sometimes 5 records of the 1 event; 1- declaration of intention to become a citizen; 2- petition to become a citizen; 3- oath of allegiance; 4- index for the State the naturalization took place in; 5- US index for naturalization). Since records often men- tioned family members, they were cross-referenced at the same time to build families. Hence, including the- sel, 541 records have been processed representing 7.1% of the reduced dataset.

6 Just to give an indication of the complexity and scale of the project, we have reached the first name of Alicia for cross-referencing. Records range in date from 1668 (12 April – Dutch East India Crew list – Steven Delle- man) to 1972 (10 November – petition for naturalization submitted at Tacoma Washington by Maria Genovia Dillman). One of the strangest names processed todate from the transcribed records was an Aerg Dillmann. When looking at the record, it was very clear that the name was actually Aug, as in August Dillmann, a rela- tively normal German name. And who knew that we would find there were 14 different Adam Dillmans alone who migrated! Already, I have noted errors in transcribing names (usually with Ancestry.com), dates, ages, birth places, etc. So far, there were probably a dozen such cases (Ancestry and to a certain extent FamilySearch do allow users to report errors in transcriptions to improve the quality of their datasets). As always, it is best to consult the original record. Up to this point, there were 50 individuals who were not given an identifier (as noted above, those with no first name, etc). A further 177 not connected to known Dillman genealogies (up till now), 9 who belong who belong to Family Group 9 (following the DDNA family naming convention) – that is Peter Dillmann from Mariental Russia (who settled in Alberta, Canada), and the remaining 20 from Family Group 18 (Christoph Georg Dillmann of Nova Scotia, Canada). While we are only a small way through this project (and a further 8 months before the conference), we have learned a great deal about migration of Dillmans across the globe and have uncovered a great many interesting stories. Some of these stories, as well as calls for assistance in linking these individuals and families to known Dillman families, will be compiled in future Newsletters and on the Dillman Family Association Facebook group. As the say, “Watch this Space”!

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7 5. Connections Made – Banat Dillman Cousins Located! - By G. Andrew Stillman, UE

The Conrad Dillmann line started a quest in mid-2014 to locate Germany based cousins as research on Dill- manns remaining in Germany progressed. With the assistance of Gabi Hippler, a close friend of DFA president Don Dillman, we were able to follow the Dillmann lineage through migration to the Banat region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This migration and research were documented in the Dillman Family Associa- tion’s September 2014 Newsletter (Vol. 7, No 1) following a presentation at the 2014 DFA conference. The Banat region of the Hapsburg imperial collection of territories became part of Hungary during the period of the Dual Monarchy of Austro-Hungary. At the end of the First World War, Banat was divided by Hungary (roughly 2/3rds ) and Serbia (1/3rd), one of the Balkan nations which was consolidated with others into the newly created country of Yugoslavia. Franzfeld, the village where the Dillmanns had settled in the late 1700s, found itself in the portion attributed to Serbia. The prosperity of the German population in these areas had been built up over generations of backbreaking work and was regarded with a degree of jealousy by their non- German neighbours. At the end World War II, the German populations suffered grave atrocities at the hands of their Serbian neighbours, being sent to work camps, being lined up and shot, and worse. It wasn’t clear that we would be able to find any living Dillmanns from this line. Despite this knowledge and with great patience and persistence, a trail of breadcrumbs that some ethnic Ger- mans found their way to the United States led us to continue to hope we could one day connect with our cousins. Gabi Hippler managed to find Dillmanns living in Reutlingen, Germany, a suburb of Stuttgart, through research on the internet. While we attempted to make contact with these individuals during the Dillman tour of Germany in 2015, but the survivors of incalculable horrors showed little interest in meeting with us. We did manage to visit a local museum dedicated to this group of German migrants collectively known as the Danube Swabians (Donau-Schwaben). Given what these individuals endured, it wasn’t surprising that they had little interest in our curiosity. Nevertheless, our intense desire to reconnect with long lost relatives was not dented. Gabi, in her research, had also learned that a couple, Jakob and Dorothea (Müller) Dillmann had migrated to Chicago in the early 1950s. We had come so close and yet we had no clue on how to locate this couple nearly 70 years later. The analysis of Dillmann migration records currently underway led to the naturalization petition of Dorothea Dillmann. This proved to be a treasure trove of information. A similar document for Jakob was likewise found on Ancestry.com (see Fig. 1 below), both were submitted on or about the 18 Sep 1961, 10 years after having arrived in the United States. Critically, the document indicates their birth dates, locations, marriage date and location as well as the birth dates and places for their children. In the migration records, ship records for the General Harry Taylor duly noted Jakob, Dorothea and Andreas journey to the United States. They were noted as being “stateless” having resided in Vienna following the es- cape of Jakob and Dorothea’s families in the dark days at the end of World War II. In fact they also appeared on a UN listing of persons displaced following the war. We can only imagine what life must have been like for them having to forcibly give up their lives in Franzfeld and continue to survive by their wits in Vienna. Having nothing to lose, they ventured to North America in search of a better life.

Additionally, we see the family returning to Europe in 1956 to visit relatives. At the end of their reunion trip, we find Dorothea and children Andreas and Jakob sailing from Cherbourg, France destined for New York on the ship Queen Elizabeth which departed on 16 Nov 1956 and arrived on 21 Nov 1956. It seems that Jakob Sr decided to remain at work and not to undertake such a lengthy voyage. It would be very interesting to figure out who they visited and the stories and laughter and tears they shared at being reunited with family members. Meanwhile, our Newsletter Editor and DFA Librarian, Chicago based Phil Dillman through sleuthing and ingenuity managed to pick up on Facebook discussions with descendants of Andreas Dillmann. He connected with Andreas’s daughter, Laura Dillman Jamison. They started exchanging information and we shared the latest research we had for the Conrad Dillmann line. Laura shared relevant family history book extracts. While

8 her grandfather didn’t speak very much of the troubled times, we were able to piece together a good deal of the

Figure 1. Petition for Naturalization as a US Citizen for Jakob Dillmann. missing experiences leading to a better understanding of what the family went through. With so many Dill- manns having lost their lives during this period in the history of Serbia, this is clearly a story of surviving through the challenges of the moment. With some questions answered and connections made, new ones pop up. The information generously shared by Laura provides her descent back several generations to a Philipp Dillmann, who was possibly born in 1860- 1865, assuming that he was around the age of 25 at the time of his marriage and 27 at the time of the birth of his first child given traditional marrying ages for Germans and typical lifecycle of household formation. This leaves a gap of 1-2 generations where records have not yet been found (see Figs 2 and 3 below) to link with documentation to the earlier Franzfeld migrants. We are hopeful that Y-DNA testing can assist in bridging this gap. 9

Figure 2. Simplified family tree for Johannes Conrad Dillmann. Figure 3. Known Banat ancestry of Laura Dillman Jamison

10 6. Bradford Dillman Reprise - By G. Andrew Stillman, UE

Following on from the 3-part series on Bradford Dillman which appeared in Vol 11, Nos 2, 3 & 4 of the Dillman Family Association’s Newsletter, and taking advantage of the rich set of migration data available we can follow in the footsteps of one of the more famous Dillmans of the 20th century – Bradford Dillman. The Migration records project uncovered passenger lists maintained at the national, state, county and even city level. The time frames covered ranged from the 1600’s (Dutch migration) with the most recent records being those from 1974 which are available online. New Zealand passenger lists went up to 1974 as well as those for Ohio. Sadly, it doesn’t appear that Bradford Dillman visited these places, or at least in the case of Ohio, entered the US via Ohio. What we do have is a fascinating glimpse into the private life of an actor who graced Broadway, silver screens, and living rooms across the world. You may recall from Vol 11, No 2, Don noted that Bradford lived from 1930 until 2018. He was also married 16 Jun 1956 in Salisbury, Connecticut (Connecticut marriages: https:// www.ctatatelibrarydata.org/marriage-records/), at the age of 26 to Frieda Harding, with whom he had 2 children. We find that Bradford and his wife, Frieda flew from Idlewild Airport (New York – now known as JFK International Airport) to Kingston, Jamaica on 17 Jun 1956 on Avianca, the national carrier of Columbia. They started their honeymoon the day after their wedding. Three weeks later on 8 Jul we find them returning to Idlewild on the same airline (but Frieda is listed much later in the flight’s manifest!) The next time we catch up with Bradford, he is returning from a trip to Denmark. He flew from Copenhagen to Los Angeles on SAS arriving into Los Angeles on the 21 Apr 1958, using passport number 505603. The immigration card he completed upon re-entry into the US indicates that he was residing at 878 W. End Ave, New York, NY. He had finished shooting his first feature film “A Certain Smile” set in Paris (Feb 1958-May 1958) and probably needed a rest! Frieda appears next in the records, returning from Orly airport (Paris, France) to Los Angeles on 29 Oct 1959, using passport number 490641, residing at 5 Latimer Road, Santa Monica, California. 5 weeks later, Bradford flew from Brussels, Belgium to New York on Air France arriving on 2 Dec 1959, again under passport number 505603, likewise residing at 5 Latimer Road, Santa Monica. This appears to be a holiday as Bradford starred in the film “Compulsion” for which he jointly won a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1959 (Orson Welles and Dean Stockwell also jointly won for their roles in the same film). His next one was not filmed until 1960. 1960 was a big year for Bradford, shooting 2 films in Europe, Crack in the Mirror (filmed in the spring of 1960 and released in May of that year); followed by Circle of Deception filmed in June 1960 and released in November. On the 7 Apr 1960, Bradford flew from Paris to New York on Air France again with the same address. Frieda next travelled from London to Los Angeles on Pan American Airways landing on 20 Jul 1960. Bradford followed her a

11 few weeks later, taking the same route from London to Los Angeles on Pan Am landing on the 10 Aug 1960. On this later film set, Bradford met and co-starred with his second wife to be Suzy Parker (whom he married in 1963) The final flight recorded was the most interesting, provides the most information and yet was written with different handwriting from the rest (maybe a personal assistant or publicist?). On 9 Jan 1961, Bradford flew from Rome, Italy to New York on Air France. The birth and VISA details were provided. From this document, we confirm that Bradford was born 14 April 1930 at San Francisco, California, resided at 5 Latimer Road, Santa Monica, California, and travelled on a French VISA issued on 10 May 1957 at New York City, passport number 505603. More current flights surely took place, including to Czechoslovakia where Bradford wrote the diary of his experience during the Soviet invasion, however, they are not yet accessioned to a public data source. Bradford and Frieda were divorced in 1962. Bradford and Suzy had 3 children.

Picture 1. Bradford’s immigration card from his return trip from Rome, 1961.

12 7. Finding Genealogy in a Quilt - by Joye and Don Dillman Historically, home arts and crafts have provided insights into our ancestors and how they lived. In August, 2018, we discovered a century-old quilt in the Clear Creek Christian church, adjacent to the grave site of Andrew and Elizabeth Dillman, ancestors of cousins Toby Hurley and Don Dillman. Two of their children, Toby’s great- grandmother, Julia, and Don’s 2nd great grandfather Andrew and their families migrated from Indiana to Oakley, Iowa, in 1857.

Toby and Don (right) had arrived for the 2018 Dillman Family Genealogical Conference a day early, and decided to visit Clear Creek cemetery, about an hour from the Indianapolis conference site. After exploring the cemetery, they noticed a light in the church office and explained to the receptionist the reason for their visit and queried her about the possible connection between the cemetery and the church.

“Would you like to see our History Room?” was the response. An enthusiastic “Yes” resulted in being taken to a glassed-in room adjacent to the fellowship hall. Furniture was moved from the entrance and flipped-on lights revealed this immaculate, but likely seldom visited room. This is the sight that opened-up before us.

In one corner was a hand-made name quilt. According to a church history we found in the room it was a fund raising quilt made in 1917 by the Ladies Aid Group to help raise money to rebuild the original 1847 building destroyed by fire in 1916. Nearly 600 contributors each paid 10 cents for their name to be included on the quilt.

As we scanned the names on the quilt, our eyes focused on one of “cart wheels” on the bottom row

13 with Mr. and Mrs. George Dillman, Iowa, in the center. George, Don’s great grandfather, born in Indiana, was the grandson of Dillmans laid to rest in the Clear Creek, Indiana, cemetery. George had moved to Iowa with his parents Andrew and Eliza Dillman in 1857, and as the eldest son likely took on great responsibility when his father died in 1867. We had often wondered if connections across the nearly 500 miles that separated the Indiana and Iowa locations, were maintained after that migration. The contribution to this quilt indicates that the connections were kept. However, it is unclear to us who each of the other spokes represent, but our experience suggests that this quilt also represented community and the connections that people developed and maintained over time.

The History of Clear Creek Christian Church found in the history room, also revealed that the George’s parents Andrew and Elizabeth were charter members of the original church. A younger son, Henry, served as church historian, the writer of records of the original church construction.

Piecing together family histories depends upon connecting many sources of information such as records of land transfer, cemetery grave locations, and vital statistics of birth, marriage and death. In addition, U.S. and state Census records often reveal relationships among families living side by side on rural roads, giving us clues to other names such as those that appear on the quilt. Today DNA testing can confirm genetic descent lines that until this century were based partly on speculation and oral histories that were not always correct.

Cultural artifacts, such as furniture, quilts and samplers can also help us understand who we are, and what was important to our ancestors, as they migrated from one location to another. They may also reveal enduring connections maintained over considerable distance. Our unexpected exposure to the history room of the Clear Creek Christian Church, while visiting the gravesite of a known ancestor, added meaningfully to our understanding who we are as part of a particular Dillman family.

When we assemble for the Dillman Family Genealogical Conference in Harrisburg, one of the topics will be how culture and knowledge of ancestors has been preserved in quilts as well as other creative works by our ancestors. 14 8. Was Ötzi the Iceman a Dillman? - By G. Andrew Stillman, UE This is the first of a series of articles focusing on famous Y-DNA cousins of our Dillman DNA project’s participants. You may recall that on Thursday 19th September 1991 in the early afternoon, a discovery was made of a frozen body in the Italian Alps very close to the Austrian border by a pair of hikers. The body had been preserved in an ancient glacier that had melted over several unusually warm summers to the point that the upper torso of a person, lying face down was exposed. Initial reports suggested this person was a missing hiker from a mountaineering accident a few years earlier. As the nearby authorities came to the scene, the date of the untimely death was pushed back to the early 1900’s. Given the remoteness of the location (a day or so walk from the Italian town of Bolzano about 3300 metres above sea level), several days elapsed before proper equipment could be helicoptered to the site. In the interim, local law enforcement attempted to remove the body using pneumatic drill (ran out of fuel on the first day and damaged one of the body’s hips), ski poles and snow picks. Even though the body was loosened on Saturday the 21st of September 1991, with an approaching storm, authorities had to leave the body covered in a plastic tarp until Monday. Around the body, were found pieces of leather clothing, a flint dagger, a backpack, other supplies including food and a quiver of arrows along with a bow. Once some of these items came to light, it was suggested that the body may have been 500 years old. A few days later, this was pushed back to 3,000 years old and finally once carbon 14 dating and analysis of the mummy’s tools were undertaken, it was determined that the Iceman was 5,300 years old, roughly dating back to 3,100 B.C.! This puts the iceman older than Stonehenge and older than the first dynasty of Egyptian Pharoahs. The Iceman was named Ötzi by a reporter as the mummified remains were found in a gully near the Ötztal mountains. Forensic investigation revealed that he was about 46 years old at the time of death (old for that period of time). He was likely a local trader with a home in the nearby valley. He had eaten a meal not long before he died. He was attacked and died from an arrow wound in his shoulder (shot from behind) which pierced an artery which caused him to bleed to death. Studies continue up to today in various fields with diagnostic techniques advancing. More and more is being learned from him, his clothing and his tools. He originally stood 1m 60 cms (roughly 5 ft 2 inches); weighed about 50 kgs (110 lbs) although the desiccation of the mummy reduced this to 13 kgs (29 lbs); and had brown eyes with dark brown to black wavy hair. His joints were worn and his arteries had hardened somewhat. From his clothing 2 human lice were recovered. He had suffered from a multiple rib fracture which was well healed and from birth was missing his 12th pair of ribs (normal for some populations). His teeth were well worn, possibly from grit contained in the milled flour which formed part of his diet. He had a gap between his upper 2 front teeth and never had any wisdom teeth. His body was covered in 61 tattoos which were mainly for pain relief around joints. He was lactose intolerant, prone to cardiovascular disease, already exhibited arteriosclerosis, and belonged to the blood type O Rh-Pos. Intriguingly, the scientists were able to extract sufficient DNA for sampling. His Y-chromosome yielded a result that put him into the G2a4-L91 haplogroup, now very rare in Europe with pockets appearing in Sardinia and Corsica. The G2a4 assignment was done in accordance with the marker hierarchy maintained by the International Society Of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) from 2011. This Y tree is updated as further discoveries arise and has since been renamed G2a2a1a2 (2019 Y- dna Haplogroup tree). The team also tested his mitochondrial as well as autosomal DNA – over 2.2 million SNPs aka markers were sequenced across the 23 pairs of chromosomes. While Ötzi’s DNA indicates recent ancestry from southern Italian islands, he lived his whole life in the southern Alps. To date in any public study, no genetic ancestor to Ötzi has been tested/reported – not entirely surprisingly given the length of time he was preserved in the glacier. Ötzi is on display at the South Tyrol Museum for Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, which keeps him in a room at -6 degrees Celsius with 100% humidity, mimicking the glacier in which he was preserved. The Museum is dedicated to the study of all aspects of Ötzi’s existence. While clearly Ötzi lived before the advent of surnames, he nevertheless does belong to the same haplogroup (DNA family) as one of the Dillman DNA (‘DDNA’) project’s lineages. His results line up fairly well with those of the Conrad Dillmann/Hans Georg Dillmann line (Family Group 2). See Figure 1 below. The tree selectively outlines the distinctive mutations in the G Haplogroup. Similar to a family tree descendants report with each new generation adding a new character (letter or number) to the generations/individuals label, the accumulation of mutations leads eventually to a diverging group of people relative to the prior level. For instance, the most senior level in this chart below is the G Haplogroup. The next generation of a mutation leads to the creation of the G2 grouping (separate and distinct from the G1 grouping which is not shown). Further down comes the G2a group, an additional mutation referred to as P15 distinguishes the G2a grouping from others such as G2b, etc. The next identifying mutation is known as L1259. This produces the grouping called G2a2. The following level is where the DNA from Ötzi diverges from that of the Conrad/ Hans Georg Dillmann family. Ötzi exhibits a mutation called PF3146 (or PF3147 depending on the location/naming

15 convention of the testing lab used) while the Conrad Dillmann line has a different mutation, known as L30. Ötzi’s line at that point becomes G2a2a while that of the Dillmanns becomes G2a2b. Further mutations accumulate over time and several generations/mutations in both lines are displayed.

Figure 1. Simplified tree showing relationship of Ötzi to DDNA Family Group 2. Figure 2. Andrew standing in front of a life-sized reconstruction of what Ötzi may have looked like.

According to the internet source yfull.com, the age of the L1259 mutation is roughly 16,900 years before the present day. This is the point when a potential common ancestor to Ötzi and the Conrad Dillmann line may have been alive. The enormous length of time may be somewhat surprising, but we must remember that G is one of the older DNA Haplogroups even though they are not as numerous as other Haplogroup’s today. For instance, the very numerous R1b Haplogroup (descending eventually from sister Haplogroups to G) with an overwhelming % of the population of European men with anywhere between 25% (Eastern Europe) to 80% (Ireland, parts of France/Spain) of the population compares to roughly 3% for Haplogroup G across Europe today. The Haplogroup G project estimates that Ötzi’s ancestral Haplogroup G2a2a is at least 10,000 years old while yfull.com estimates that it dates as far back as 16,700 years ago. This compares with the Conrad Dillmann family’s mutation L30 which may date at 17,100 years ago (yfull.com) or anywhere from 15,000-30,000 years ago estimated by the Haplogroup G DNA project. While Ötzi may be a cousin, he is clearly a very distant cousin and we can’t claim him as a Dillman.

Postscript: Incidentally, the mutation L140 contained in the Conrad Dillman family Y-chromosome is estimated to be present in 80% of the living population of Haplogroup G males today while Ötzi’s DNA signature is much rarer and localized to Southern Europe, North Africa, Armenia and Pakistan. One of the DDNA project members had completed the Big Y-DNA test, a test which looks at 700 markers on the Y- chromosome. While this test also discovered 2 family specific mutations which don’t appear in the Y-tree of 2019, the mutations are able to uniquely identify the Conrad/Hans Georg Dillmann line. They are BY27996 and BY27991.

16 9. Found On Facebook This was on Rick Dillman’s Facebook page. It mentions Grover (Cleveland) Dillman, This group settled in Bangor, Michigan, located between South Haven and Paw Paw.

17 10. Dillmans of South Africa

George William Dillman, pictured here, was the grandfather of Lindsay Dillman with whom Andrew Stillman met on a visit in South Africa. Pictured on the beach, bottom left, was Lindsay’s father, Lindsay Sr., a minister. Below, Lindsay Sr. was ordaining Lindsay Jr to be a minister. Dillman DNA Project test results connected them to DFA Group 3, the Erich Dihlmann Group originating in Germany.

18 11. Our Dillman Family DILLMAN, Elwood Lewis

Passed away peacefully on December 20, 2018, in Hants Community Hospital, Windsor. Born in Admiral Rock, Hants County on June 15, 1940, he was a son of the late Thomas A. and Lyla Blanche (Turple) Dillman. He grew up and attended one-room schools in Admiral Rock and Rines Creek, graduated from Stewiacke High and completed studies from the Canadian Institute of Traffic and Transportation.

Elwood was a member of Avon United Church (Formerly St. James United Church) and served on the Official Board. He was general manager of the East Kings Winter Hawks Minor Hockey Team for many years and was an avid hunter and fisherman. He was a long-time member of Poyntz Lodge No. 44, A.F. & A.M. in Hantsport serving as Worshipful Master of the Lodge in 2005.

Elwood joined the staff of the Department of Highways, as it was then known, in 1957. Two years later he joined Canadian Pacific Railway (DAR) as District Manager. In 1968 he left the railway and moved his family to Hantsport to work with CKF Inc. as Transportation Manager. In 1985 he joined Scotia Investments Limited as Group Distribution and Group Environmental Coordinator and worked with the “Jodrey Family” until his retirement in 2005.

From 1968 to 1985 Elwood was a director of the Atlantic Provinces Transportation Commission and served as chairman for three years. In recognition of outstanding leadership with the Canadian Industrial Transportation League, at its annual dinner in Toronto, he was presented with the 1990 Distribution Executive of the Year Award for Canada. He was past chairman of the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters Canada, past chairman of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association and served on the Nova Scotia Workers’ Compensation Board from 1998 to 2005. He was the founding member and first chairman of the Nova Scotia Resource Recovery Fund Board that established a province-wide plan and operation for the management of solid waste in Nova Scotia. Elwood is survived by his wife of 54 years, Marilyn (MacKenzie); daughter, Jane Ann (Adam) Palmer; grandchildren, Nicholas Harding Palmer and Alexandra Elizabeth Palmer; brothers, Leonard William (Margaret) Dillman, Christopher Keith (Elizabeth) Dillman; sister, Lyla May Marlene Peterson; brothers-in- law, Murray Boyd (Ann) MacKenzie, Victor L. Griffiths and many nieces and nephews.

Besides his parents, he was predeceased by a brother, Ivan, in infancy; his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Ann Griffiths and his son, Christopher Thomas Dillman, who lost a courageous battle with cancer in June of 2013. Arrangements have been entrusted to DeMont Family Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 419 Albert St., Windsor (902-798-8317). A funeral service celebrating Elwood’s life will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 19, in Avon United Church, 17 Prince St., Hantsport, Rev. Beth Johnston officiating. A reception will follow in the church hall. Burial will be at a later date in Riverbank Cemetery, Hantsport. Family flowers only, by request. Donations in memory of Elwood may be made to Avon United Church, PO Box 414, Hantsport, NS B0P 1P0 or charity of one’s choice. Messages of condolence may be sent to the family by visiting: www.demontfamilyfuneralhome.ca

Elwood was a participant of the Dillman DNA Project from Family Group 18 - Meagher’s Grant, Nova Scotia, Canada

19 DILLMAN DESCENDANTS & ANCESTORS 12. “DILLMAN REUNIONS” Several groups of Dillmans hold reunions in different locations each year. In this part of the newsletter, those reunions will be posted with times and locations updated as they become available to us. All dates, locations and times are subject to change. Please send photos and info that you would like to share from any past gatherings or to announce any upcoming Dillman reunions to Phil Dillman at [email protected]. Thanks!

1st Sunday in June, June 7, 2020 Conrad/Hans Georg Dillmann Group through George Michael Dillman (1764), Dillman/Stone families (Group 2) Noon - ??? Middle Fork Campground just off US 136. From Indiana, take Rte 63 from Terre haute to I-74 west and take exit 200 towards Rankin/Fithian to RT 49. Turn right onto Rt 49/136 and follow it to County Road 2700/Cr 22 until u see campground. Google map directions. It's spelled Penfield, IL. (near Champaign, Illinois)

Sunday, June 21, 2020 Part of the Schuylkill County, PA group through Anthony and Susanna Kalbach Dillman (Group 1) Roseto Ball Park, Roseto, Pennsylvania Starting at 10:00, Bring a covered dish to share.

Last Sunday in June, June 28, 2020 Conrad/Hans Georg Dillmann Group through Andrew Dillman & Elizabeth Bruner. (Group 2) At the home of Dick & Jayne Dillman, 4732 W. McNeeley St., Ellettsville, Indiana Arrive at noon, Potluck Lunch served around 12:30 Eastern Daylight Time For questions, call Sue Conder 812-327-7587 OR Dick Dillman 812-876-2367

2nd Saturday of July, July 11, 2020 Conrad/Hans Georg Dillmann Group through John Wesley Dillman Sr’s son, Samuel. (Group 2) Evan and Terah Kubicek's house, 407 S. Front St., Kansas, IL And, if you get lost, we are the only dome house in town, just ask anyone. :) If there is a chance of rain that day, we have also reserved the church in Charleston, IL, at Charleston Community Church as in previous years to be able to gather there instead (about a 15 minute drive from our house). There will be air conditioned inside seating for anyone who wishes to be inside, and outside seating with plenty of games and different activities for the kiddos to do outside, including a zip line. We have about 3 acres of land that our house sits on and we'll have plenty of seating and fun for everyone! 12:00 PM—10:00 PM

Friday July 31 –Sumday August 2, 2020 Marienthal, Russia Group (Group 9) Widewater Complex, Wagner, Alberta, Canada

Dillman Genealogical Conference (All Groups and Individual Researchers) Harrisburg, PA August 13-15, 2020

Saturday, October 17, 2020 10:00 AM—4:00 PM Descendants of Frank Dillman and Minnie Walker, part of Conrad / Hans Georg Dillmann (Group 2) Tamms Community Center, Tamms, IL Lunch served at 12:30 PM, Table Service and Beverages provided, bring a dish to share Bring photos and genealogy information to share if you’d like. Contact Phil at [email protected] with questions.

20 DILLMAN DESCENDANTS & ANCESTORS “FUTURE ARTICLES” We would like to include any Dillman-related stories and/or photos that you might wish to submit for upcoming newsletters. We will try to include your submitted stories/ photos as quickly as possible. Phil Dillman, 18351 Cowing Ct., Homewood, IL 60430, [email protected]

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