Have you discovered the music of Chappell Roan? Chappell is a major pop star who won in two categories of the 2025 ASCAP Pop Music Awards. She was nominated for six categories for the Grammy Awards and seven categories in the American Music Awards. That’s a lot of honor and acclaim for a twenty-seven-year-old singer/songwriter!…
Category: Surname: Schantz
A Love Letter to My Grandmothers
Marie (Wenger) Schantz holding baby Renee
in 1962
All You Need is 100 lbs of Milk…
Sometimes I run across the most delightful articles in the local historical newspapers. As I was researching my maternal great-grandmother, Sarah (Widmer) Wenger (1883-1959), I found her recipe for Swiss Cheese! Sarah was my mother’s Grandma Wenger. She was married to Jacob T Wenger (1865-1949). At the time this recipe was published, Sarah and Jacob…
Our Many Graber Ancestors
This will be of interest to you if you are related to Renee via her mother, Joann (Schantz) Love. I have been spending a lot of time with our Anabaptist (Amish and Mennonite) ancestors within the last couple of years. In addition to learning about the history of the Anabaptists, I have found some very…