Saturday, June 13, 2026

Compendium of Family Biographies, Stories and Videos For My Wife's Schaffner Line

 My wife Linda Joan (Leland) Seaver has an interesting ancestry but there were only a few family stories handed down by her grandparents and parents over the years.  She is the daughter of Leo Severt Leland (1911-2002) and Edna May Schaffner (1913-1979) and was born and educated in San Francisco, California, and became an elementary school teacher.  In 1967, she moved to the San Diego, California area, and married Randall J. Seaver in 1970.

Over decades, I have done genealogical research for her ancestry, and have found quite a bit of information about her ancestral families.  Over the past year, I have written and published genealogical sketches for each couple in her ancestry back through the 2nd great-grandparents (with the exception of her parents). From the genealogical sketches have come AI-assisted biographies based solely on the sketches, and from the biographies have come AI-assisted ancestor life memoirs and stories for each couple. Finally, I have used Google NotebookLM to create infographics, video overviews and slide decks for the biographies and many of the stories.  

The purpose of this blog post is to collect the information for each family line in one compendium for Linda's Schaffner-related ancestral families:

1)  Parents, Leo Severt Leland (1911-2002) and Edna May (Schaffner) Leland (1913-1979):

  • Genealogical Sketch:  pending
2)  Grandparents Paul Frederick Schaffner (1879-1934) and Edna Catherine McKnew (1884-1974):
3)  Great-grandparents Herman Schaffner (1851-1921) and Mary Ann Paul (1854-1908):
4)  Great-grandparents Elijah Pickrell McKnew (1836-1912) and Jane Whittle (1847-1921):

5)  2nd Great-grandparents Frederick Schaffner (1828-1899) and Susanna Hoffman (1830-1855):

6)  2nd Great-grandparents John Charles Paul (1823-1879) and Maria T. Beamish (1827-1909):

7)  2nd Great-grandparents  Jeremiah McKnew (1804-????) and Frances Allethia Pickrell (1810-1845):

8)  2nd Great-grandparents  Alexander Whittle (1818-1853) and Rachel Morley (1818-1861):


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First Updated:  13 June 2026
Last Updated:  13 June 2026

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