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.”
S.S. Blucher-Hamburg America Line built 1902, The ship that brought Johann Koroschetz to America. Thanks to www.norwayheritage.com for image. Johann Koroschetz traveled to Hamburg to board the ship, the S.S. Blucher, destined for America, on August 26, 1908, [...]
John Koroschetz, left, Austria, born December 27, 1870 At age twenty-one, on September 17, 1892, John Koroschetz, my mother’s father, was working in a machine shop (he was either a machinist or tool and die maker) in Graz, [...]
S.S. Geroge Washingtonphoto credit: www.norwayheritage.com Louise Woschkeruscha, my maternal grandmother, boarded the S.S. George Washington on March 8, 1913, a month after leaving three years of paid apprenticeship and another three years as journey-woman in the Viennese clothing [...]
Joan Brunwasser, editor and interviewer See Joan’s interview with me here: Digging Up Family History “Hey, Linda! What have you been up to, lately?” Joan, a fellow-swimmer at our local YMCA asked me recently. So unfolded my tale of [...]
Alöisia Woschkeruscha’s masterpiece, 1912 Alöisia (Luise, later Louise) Woschkeruscha, my maternal grandmother, apprenticed at Frau Elise Vogel’s dressmaking salon in Vienna, from July 1, 1906 through July 1, 1909 She received her beautiful “diploma,” the Lehrbrief, shown in the last [...]