Welcome,
Dear
Members, Relatives and Friends of the Leichnitz Family
The Leichnitz
Family is small but fine, and quite exclusive. I estimate that today
there are about 400 living persons around the world who bear our family
name, including name variations as Lechnitz, Leichnetz, Leichner,
Likeness, Lechmitz, Lechmyc, Leichmitz, Leichmic, Lejchmitz and
Lejchmic. My father, Werner Erich Guenther Leichnitz (1909-1989) had
spent decades of years carefully researching our family history, and
published his knowledge in 1963 (Deutsches Geschlechterbuch, Vol. 133
"Westpreussen 3", edited 1964 by Verlag C.A. Starke, Limburg an der
Lahn, Germany.
As I am now
retired myself, I decided to continue his work. I direct my efforts on
one hand to fill gaps in the relationship records of former
generations, and on the other hand to update family data of the younger
generations living today, and to integrate them into our family
community.
In these
efforts, I closely cooperate with our cousin Earl Eric Schultz in
Canada, who has conducted intensive research in our family over many
years. We may say that together we have the largest database about the
Leichnitz family in the world. From this, other members of our family
community may profit.
We invite all of
you to contact us. We hope that everyone will support us in our
research activities. We will also be happy to assist you finding your
relationship as a descendant of our ancestor Christoff Lechnitz, and
searching for other relatives. We have very good reasons to believe
that all bearers of our name descend from Christoff Lechnitz and so far
are all related to each other.
We have prepared
a number of info pages concerning historic and actual topics of our
family. The following pages can be provided on request:
- Family Crest
- The Leichnitz Community
- History of the Leichnitz Community
- Emigrants to Overseas
- Bearers of the Name Leichnitz
- Who They Were and How They Lived
- History of West Prussia
- The City of Thorn on Old Viewcards
- Portraits of our Family Members
Please contact
me directly, and I hope to enter into a fruitful communication with you.
Werner Leichnitz
Bismarckstrasse 77
D-57076 Siegen
Germany
Email: familie.leichnitz@gmx.net