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 [...]
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 [...]
What an exciting day. I got an email from my aunt yesterday. It seems she has found some very exciting information about some of my ancestors. I’ve been so focused on my Russian German ancestors that I wasn’t even thinking about this line, so this was a big surprise.
It turns out that my aunt discovered [...]
This summer I’ll be attending the family reunion for one branch of my family. The patriarch and matriarch came to the US in 1905 and settled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In preparation for my trip, I’m going to be researching that family for the next few months.
I know a few things. Adolph Flatt [...]