Bünger

November 22, 2016 Dana 7 Comments 5 min read

How I Traced My Immigrant Family to Germany

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

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

November 1, 2016 Dana 5 Comments 2 min read

In the U.S., most of my ancestors were farmers. But, my newly found German ancestors had a variety of occupations.

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.

July 6, 2014 Dana 5 Comments 3 min read

I’ve done a few of Randy Seaver’s “Saturday Night Genealogy Fun” challenges over at Genea-Musings. This week’s challenge is about