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 [...]
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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 [...]
I live near Green-Wood Cemetery. Unfortunately, I don’t have any family buried there, at least none that I’m aware of. At best there might be distant relatives by marriage, but even that is a long shot. Still, it is a remarkable place, so I enjoy visiting.
I’ve been there a few times and I always find [...]
I’m visiting my parents, and I figured while I was here, I would be sure to ask them everything they remember about their parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents and any other family member they can remember. I also took a peek on their bookshelf and found something pretty neat.
My mother’s aunt is interested in genealogy [...]
When I last posted, I realized that I must have some information wrong. I thought my ancestors were Volga Germans, but I couldn’t find their Russian Village in any list of Volga German settlements.
So, I went back to what I knew. The ship manifest states they were from Marienka Crest, Russia. The 1930 census said [...]
I grew up knowing that my great grandparents were Germans who lived in Russia and emigrated to the USA, specifically Michigan, around the turn of the century.
My first forays into genealogy took me down the path of the Volga Germans – Germans who settled along the Volga River in Russia at the invitation of Catherine [...]
I’m back on the trail of my Russian German ancestors. I think figuring out where in Eastern Europe they came from before emigrating to the United States is the best thing to do at this stage. So I’ve been researching the history of the region and I realize that earlier in my research, I may [...]
I’ve been casually doing genealogy research for years, but I recently decided I wanted to step it up a notch. So I decided to go to the library and get a book. Their selection wasn’t huge, but I did find this one and thought I’d give it a try.
The instructions are quite basic in some [...]
Yesterday evening after work, I went by the New York Public library for a talk on Genealogy given by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak. The Public Library has been holding a serious of lectures and educational programs on the topic of genealogy all spring. They have many great resources for genealogists and family historians, and I’m looking [...]
A few years ago I visited Ellis Island with my dad. His grandparents and great grandparents came to the United States through Ellis Island or Castle Garden. We were there all afternoon. It was such a wonderful visit. So educational and interesting. We walked around in the actual processing center that our ancestors walked through. [...]