Family Archaeologist
“Family Archaeologist” explores a century of family letters, diaries, and artifacts, and how they illuminate history and our shared humanity. To get an overview of the blog, click “Welcome to Family Archaeologist.”
“Family Archaeologist” explores a century of family letters, diaries, and artifacts, and how they illuminate history and our shared humanity. To get an overview of the blog, click “Welcome to Family Archaeologist.”
Josef Gartz (rear) working as Sandwich Man in Joe Nelson’s Saloon, Northeast corner of Crawford [now Pulaski] and Madison Street, Chicago Mr. Offelke put an ad in the Abendpost, a German language paper. The title literally means the [...]
The first Görz to arrive in my grandparents’ homeland of Siebenbürgen/Transylvania made the 1,000 mile trek from Gerstheim in Alsace in May, 1770, but to Grosspold, not Neppendorf as the Lutheran church records there had stated. It was the baby on [...]
Cousin Maria Gärtz and Linda Gartz visiting Gerstheim (May, 2011) a German town and our ancestral home in Alsace. The original church no longer exists, but its records have been microfilmed. So who was the first bold soul [...]
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Neppendorf, Romania; Josef Gärtz’s church It’s time for another Carnival of Genealogy Post – (CoG) where members of the genealogy blogging community share ancestor stories around a common theme. For September we’re writing about “Our Ancestor’s [...]
Friday, October 13, 1911. Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Josef Gartz. Downright Immoral! Unseemly! Wrong! In 1911 that would have been the reaction if Elisabetha Ebner lived by herself upon arriving in Chicago (only “bad” girls did that), and [...]