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On my recent post I talked about visiting a landlord’s house in Northwest Westphalia. It made me wonder who did the landlord answer to? He was the collector but was there someone over him. In some cases the landlord of a large farm was the collector for the noble family or church “owner” of the […]
German trip May 2012 Well I am home from Germany now and I always have good intentions of blogging every day when I am there, but that never happens. Never enough time, although I do take train or car time to jot down a few notes. Â So, I will try to write about things now […]
Did you watch last week’s WDYTYA and follow Rob Lowe’s journey of finding his ancestor that had been a Hessian soldier that fought in the American Revolutionary War? Do you have or think you may have a “Hessian soldier” in your background?  Then here is a site from the Archives in Marburg, Hesse, Germany that […]
When you are researching your German ancestors don’t forget to mine all the resources from the towns they lived in.  Perhaps before they settled someplace permanently they lived in several states and there were major life events that happened in that town.  Marriages, births, deaths or maybe just a mention in the local paper, these […]
In our first blog in this series we gave an overview of different ways to find your Ancestral hometown but one thing I want to go into more depth about is the importance of looking at all church records your ancestor may have created. Especially look for those first immigrants. Where they married in the […]
Today I would like to start a small series of postings on German resources and how to find your hometown. Often people say to me: “I know that my ancestors emigrated from Germany and I would love to go on a trip, but I don’t know how I can find their hometowns. ” I was […]
As the year winds down, I like to reflect on all the places I was lucky enough to visit this year. With three group tours to Germany we visited a lot of places  and now as I settle down and have a chance to look over the pictures, I would like to tell you about […]
I’ve been cleaning my office (ugh) but I am finding a bunch of helpful things. This post is one of them. One step that might be helpful to finding your ancestor’s hometown is to check to see if they were naturalized. This was an article I found on the Baden-Wuerttemberg mail list. Hope it helps! […]
I would to thank another of our tour members for a guest post on her experience on our recent Rhineland tour. Thanks Connie I think I have calmed down enough now to write… I first got hooked on genealogy by finding my parents and grandparents on the census records at the Brown County Library. Then […]
I would like to post a story from a “guest blogger” this time. A gentleman who was on our Rhineland trip this past September. He has written several articles for his genealogy society, Fox Valley Genealogy Society of Illinois and I am posting one of them today. Genealogy Tours Gene Atkin Thinking about your immigrant […]