German Genealogy

March 5, 2018 Dana 12 Comments 0 min read

My First Genealogy Presentation!!!

After many hours of preparation, I gave my first genealogy presentation on Friday! It was to my (wonderful) local genealogy

October 16, 2017 Dana 4 Comments 1 min read

Searching newspaper sites for an address, instead of a name, can sometimes uncover articles which would not have been found

April 8, 2017 Dana 6 Comments 2 min read

I cannot read German. But, thanks to technology, I can still search German newspapers to find stories of my German

December 21, 2016 Dana 5 Comments 4 min read

With a lot of help, I now know the German villages of six of my ancestral families. I “discovered” their

December 10, 2016 Dana 4 Comments 2 min read

I decided to see if I could trace another branch of my family back to Germany: the Werthers. They arrived

November 22, 2016 Dana 7 Comments 5 min read

In October, I started telling the story of one of my immigrant families: the Peters. My purpose was to find

November 3, 2016 Dana 2 Comments 1 min read

After locating the church in Bellin, Germany, where my Peters family attended in the late 1850s, my dad found a

November 2, 2016 Dana 0 Comments 1 min read

I spent hours looking for the baptismal record of my great, great, great grandmother, Henriette Maria Magdalena Bünger. I believed she

October 31, 2016 Dana 3 Comments 2 min read

Although I didn’t get a word by word translation, volunteers at the Facebook group “Genealogy Translations” helped me to translate

October 29, 2016 Dana 4 Comments 1 min read

I started researching our family in 1998, and my dad’s aunt, Beulah, had probably researched several decades before that time.