“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.”
Section of Eva Beer’s letter included with Josef’s. On February 11, 1911, the mail arrived in Hermannstadt, Hungary, where my grandmother, Lisi Ebner, worked for Mrs. Jickeli. I can imagine Lisi’s heart quickening when she saw a letter [...]
Renate, Neppendorf Lutheran Church secretary and keeper of genealogical treasures. TRAVEL TUESDAY What’s in a Name? I had no inkling our family surname had ever been anything other than Gärtz. But then we visited my grandfather’s home town [...]
No email. No texts. No chats. No tweets. No Facebook. By God! No telephone! So how does twenty-one-year old Josef Gärtz, my grandfather, persuade the love of his life, Lisi, merely twenty-two, to make a 5,000 mile trek to join [...]
Evangelische (Lutheran) Kirche Neppendorf (near Sibiu)Historically, the Gärtz family church TRAVEL TUESDAY Church as History On the second day of our 2007 roots-finding trip in Romania, my brother, Bill, and I met up with Renate, church secretary of [...]
Welcome to the 2010 iGene Awards, one of the Carnival of Genealogy (CoG) monthly themes. For my readers new to CoG, it offers genealogy bloggers a new topic each month for our blog posts. February is the month to highlight [...]