John J. (Jack) Dietz
Sarasota, Florida

We knew very little about Friedrich and Anna Barbara until Jack Dietz gave us some details about our great-grandfather and great-grandmother.

Jack said Friedrich was very very friendly as was Anna Barbara. Hazel and Jack used to go out to Friedrich's and Anna Barabara's house in Youngstown on Saturdays and stay until Sunday. Jack said they had big beds and Anna Barbara loved to cook. She made the best fried potatoes you could imagine Uncle Jack said. As I recall John Frederick Diez always had fried potatoes too!!

Friedrich would walk three miles from Youngstown to the Diez farm on the Youngstown-Wilson Road and watch Jack run the tractor.

Thanks Uncle Jack!!!!

Neil Diez

Jack Dietz is the brother of Kenneth George Diez and brother of Hazel Diez Collins. John Frederick Diez and Edna Jeddo Diez were their parents.

A Session with Fred Lloyd-

We want to tell you about how this website began. I was visiting Mom and Dad and I began to think about how little we knew about the origins of the Diez Family. I suggested to Dad (Kenneth Diez) that we should go and talk to Fred Lloyd since he would know alot about Friedrich and Anna Barbara. We called and shortly went to see Fred.
What a conversation!! I will never forget it. Fred Lloyd at 93 was very sharp as he told us about the Diez Family. He knew all the names of Friedrich's children and also spoke of my grandfather John Frederick Diez. Fred outlined the names of other related family members that are in the family tree in this webpage.
He said that the ship voyage from Bremen was in the North Atlantic in winter and that the ship actually lost ground to the wind on some days!!
He stated that we were from the region Wurttemberg.
After Anna Barbara passed away Friedrich lived with Aunt Mary and Fred said that he was sad and lonely. Fred indicated that Friedrich said he did not want to live without her. As the record shows Friedrich passed away in November 1927 a few months after Anna Barbara.
I took notes as Fred talked. I am writing this text from all those words.

Later Suzanne Dietz and I talked about a genealogy search. We then realized that if we pooled our resources, notes, and efforts we might document a family logbook to some degree. Now you are in that electronic log. That is basically how all this started. What a fabulous session all credited to Fred Lloyd. That time will never be forgotten. From our perspective Fred Lloyd started this entire process. Thanks Fred.

Thanks for reading.

Neil Diez & Kenneth Diez