This is a place for our family to get to know the people who came before us—and to share the memories we carry today. Take a look through the photographs, read a letter, or follow a story across the Hilpert, Harjo and connected branches of our family. Whether these faces are familiar or you’re meeting them for the first time, you’re welcome here.
A book made with love, filled with photographs, letters, and memories of Milly and Otto. Open it and turn the pages, beginning with the dedication to the next generation.
Open the book →Open the album to explore the photographs and family memories.
Every name in our tree belongs to a person with a story. Here you can spend a little time with those stories and see the faces behind the names.
Get to know David through the story of his life, family photographs and the letters and records that have come down to us.
Read his story →Our family tree lives on Ancestry, where we keep adding discoveries and connecting the branches. Family members are welcome to ask for an invitation.
Find your place in the family →Look through the photographs, letters and keepsakes our family has saved. You might recognize a face or remember a story we haven’t heard yet.
Browse the archive →
Names written on the back of a photograph, a letter stored in a box, a family story remembered by one person, or an old newspaper clipping may provide information that does not exist anywhere else.
If you have a photograph, a favorite memory, or a name to put to a face, please share it. Small details can mean a great deal to someone getting to know their family.
How to contributeThousands of family photographs and documents have already been digitized. The next stage is cataloging the most historically important material, connecting it to the genealogy, and publishing selected items here.
Early Hilpert letters and other historical records are being prepared for transcription, translation, and publication.
Unidentified people, locations, and dates will be posted so relatives can help solve them together.
The Facebook group is the discussion space for questions, discoveries, family participation, and new material.
Join the group →Help put a name to a face
Do you have a Hilpert family photograph with a face nobody can name? We’d love to piece the story together. No unidentified Hilpert photographs have been added here yet.
Share a photograph for identification
You can also help identify three photographs in the Harjo collection.
Follow their story through Eileen and the generations that followed.