Northwest Germany Tour

• We stay in a centrally located spa town.
• We visit a local county Archive with a lecture on Emigration from this area.
• A tour of the Detmold Freilichtmuseum (open air living history museum).See the types of farms and homes your ancestor lived in.
• Free Days to Visit your Ancestral Hometowns – with expert help in making contacts in your town. Visit churches, farms and perhaps find living relatives
• Tour of Bremerhaven’s Emigrant Museum with lunch on a Three-masted sailing ship.
• Visit to Hameln, of Pied Piper Fame, city tour included.
• Day trip to Buckeburg Castle, residence of the Princes of
• Schaumburg-Lippe. Tour of Castle plus enjoy the magnificent gardens and don’t miss the opportunity for Kaffee und Kuchen in the pink & white Schloss kitchen.
• Travel to Osnabrück and tour the Rathaus where the Westphalian Peace Treaty was signed, ending the 30 years war. We then visit with members of a local genealogical Society.
• Other options: Research at Bielefeld, Detmold or Osnabrück Archives, or a visit to medieval town of Lemgo and its Castle, Schloss Brake.  You also can add days before or after to tour on your own.

Trip Includes:

• Hotel for 10 nights
• Breakfast daily, 2 lunch & 4 dinners
• German Twin Rail Pass
• Entrance Fees to Scheduled Tours
• Expert help on making contacts in 3 Ancestral Hometowns, detailed information on who and where to meet plus help with finding where your town’s records are kept.
• *$50.00 discount for Family Tree Tours alums. If you have traveled with us before, Welcome Back!

Pricing:

• Northwest Germany Tour
• May 3 – 14^th 2013
• 11 days/10 nts
• $2300.00 pp dbl* – $150.00 single supplement*
• Register before March 1, 2013

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