You could be related to the Curtzes!
The Curtze 12 married and the families expanded into hundreds of descendants - all names that Erie residents will recognize. Here are just some of the family names of the direct descendants and those who married Curtze family members. Most names only date to 1992
Abbot
Abels
Albracht
Anderson
Atkinson
Benson
Blakeslee
Blose
Bogner
Bordner
Buhl
Burns
Buzard
Carlson
Carroll
Chadwick
Claus
Cole
Collins
Connover
Cook
Coughlan
Covelli
Cruice
Donaldson
Drumheller
Drury
Eichorn
Emerson
Fagan
Fuller
Gebhardt
Glas
Glasberg
Goss
Gallo
Gerrity
Gannoe
Griffin
Gross
Gustafson
Hahn
Hall
Hallenbeck
Hartman
Harman
Heffer
Herwig
Hoffman
Holding
Holman
Hunter
Jarecki
Kern
Kilgore
Kraus
Lampman
Landers
Lipsky
Loach
Lort
Lowry
Maahs
Machuga
Martin
Martlage
Masna
Massing
McLaughlin
McNally
Meacham
Mertens
Mills
Mock
Mullen
Nielsen
Nolf
Olah
Padien
Patton
Porter
Raitt
Reed
Reynolds
Riorda
Ridington
Rodgers
Rogers
Rounds
Rynier
Santangelo
Saunders
Sayers
Scarlett
Schaffer
Scholtz
Schreiber
Seversky
Shenk
Shissler
Shoemaker
Sitterle
Smith
Stohlman
Streeter
Templeton
Titus
Tii Tam (nyguyen)
Ulsh
Vicary
Vullo
Volland
Von Hanxladen
Waldschmidt
Wallace
Warnath
Wascher
West
Wilkin
Wilmarth
Zetouny
Ziegler