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.”

When a resumé worked as passport

Lisi’s “Passport” Traveling sure was different 100 years ago. My grandmother, Lisi Ebner had to get all her papers in order to travel to America. I found her “passport” among the artifacts she left behind. She had actually written on [...]

Linda Admin2011-06-14T03:30:00-05:00June 14th, 2011|Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, immigration|

Are we going there to stay?

June 7, 1911, postcard from Lisi to Josef. The two love-birds in a heart of roses, the clasped hands, and the forget-me-not blue flowers speak of love without saying a word. Lisi has made up her mind! One [...]

Linda Admin2011-06-07T03:30:00-05:00June 7th, 2011|Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, immigration, love|

I will come

The blue flowers are “forget-me-nots” Josef’s long, heartfelt letter of May 25th, 1911, (click: If you love me…) could not yet have reached Lisi in Transylvania when she picked out this sweet postcard and wrote to him on May 30th. [...]

Linda Admin2011-05-30T03:30:00-05:00May 30th, 2011|Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, immigration, love, Transylvania|

The Fallen—Part III

Travel Tuesday – Monument to the dead Sam Ebner, Lisi’s brother, died in the Battle of Galicia, one of the earliest battles in WWI. (See previous two posts: The Fallen-Part I and The Fallen-Part II). I wrote about my brothers and [...]

Linda Admin2011-05-24T03:30:00-05:00May 24th, 2011|Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, WWI|

The Fallen—Part II

Travel Tuesday “Names of the Fallen”Samuel Ebner-2nd from top Father and Son, both Samuel Ebner ~ 1902-05. My grandmother, Lisi’s,brother and father. In the first post in this three-part series about Samuel Ebner, my grandmother’s younger [...]

Linda Admin2011-05-17T03:30:00-05:00May 17th, 2011|Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, WWI|

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