I recently joined the SGGEE – The Society of German Genealogy in Eastern Europe. If you’ve been following along on my blog, you’ll know that on one half of my family tree, I’m descended from Germans who lived in Eastern Europe prior to emigrating to the United States. There were many Germans in those areas [...]
When I moved to NYC, I drove across the US on I-80. I-80 is a long and sometimes lonely stretch of interstate that goes through Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Being a western girl, I loved the mountains and valleys in Utah (I was born there after all) and I didn’t mind [...]