I couldn't come up with much information from my moms side, but i came up with a lot of stuff from my fathers side. I won't include it all but someone wrote down that our family goes back from at least 1599 in Germany where a man named Peter Gessert was born on Sep. 29, 1559. He became the mayor of a town called Nierstein. When he had kids one of his kids became the next mayor and so on for three generations in Germany. I'm not sure if this is true but i said he died in 1707 which would have made him 106 years old. They started leaving Germany mainly in 1853. They continued spreading out throughout the world and can now be found pretty much anywhere from Hesse, to Switzerland. From Belgium throughout the entire United States. 10 of the Gessert descendents fought in the civil war; 1 confederate, and 9 in the union. That pretty much raps up the progression of my family tree.
Jacob Gessert - Civil War
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Overall, a bit brief.