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Discover the WWII Story of Hubert Kleiboeker
2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the loss of Hubert Kleiboeker, who was killed fighting the Nazi forces on the French-German border.
DNA testing uncovers the link between the Claybaker and Kleiboeker Families.
The Claybaker family, a long lost branch of the Kleiboeker family are found through Y chromosome testing. Family lore that the Claybakers simplified the spelling of their last name turned out to be true.
1918 Flu Epidemic has remarkable parallels to Covid Pandemic of 2020
The Meyer family was struck with multiple deaths from the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, leaving orphans taken in by the Kleiboeker Families
2016 Kleiboeker Routes to the Roots Trip
July 19–30, 2016 - We are back from Germany and had a trip of a lifetime!
We met relatives, new friends and experienced life in the early 1800's at the Cloppenburg Museum as well as visiting the original Kleiboeker family farmstead dating to the 1400s.
Rusch Family in Prussia
See maps and photos on where the Rusch's lived in Prussia, now Poland, A trip there in 2014 provides perspective.