“This is my ship which brought me to America in the year 1911. Landing in NY- Disembarked 7:00 pm 26th September”; written on the back of this post card by Elisabetha Ebner A century ago this evening, at [...]
Because of blogging, I’ve had a great time getting to know more people interested not only in genealogy and family history, but also in writing memoir and family stories, which is the ultimate goal of my research through my family [...]
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 [...]