Drafted 100 Years Ago!
The summer before Josef wrote his sweet postcard to Lisi (see Can Love Last 100 Years?), he had received a written notice not nearly as delightful. A scan is at the left. It was the first page in a notebook onto [...]
Can Love last 100 years? Nov. 18, 1910-Nov. 18, 2010
Funny thing about love. We know it when we feel it. We know it when we see it. I can see it in this postcard, mailed one hundred years ago today, November 18, 1910, by Josef Gärtz to his sweetheart, [...]
Welcome to Family Archaeologist
My family’s ancestral roots are in Transylvania—known more for its Dracula legend than the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans, like my father’s parents, who had made it their home beginning in the twelfth century. One hundred years ago, my [...]