Drafted 100 Years Ago!
This is a repost that first appeared in November, 2010. 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 [...]
An odd fellow-missing World War I
World War I trench warfarephoto credit: www.anunews.net/blog Last week’s photos pictured Josef and Lisi Gartz, with their two young sons, Friedrich and Wilhelm happy and healthy in Chicago about early 1916 (see below) and again in the summer [...]
Blitzbuggy—A Car with History
Model A Ford-1929 (See Blitzbuggy below)credit: Hubcapcafe.com It’s Carnival of Genealogy (CoG) again, the monthly opportunity for genealogy bloggers to ponder a specific topic—and for April it’s cars. Thanks to Jasia at Creative Gene for hosting CoG. Blitzbuggy. For those [...]
Last Summer in Europe
In 1910 Josef began a second book, this time the notebook in which I found his Military Draft notice handwritten on the first page. (See post, Drafted 100 Years Ago). After making some inquiries with Transylvanian natives, the consensus at [...]
The Cash and Song Book
Katarina (Schnell) Gärtz, Josef and hissister, Katarina. About 1902-03 When we asked my grandfather why he had come to America he always said, “Nothing from nothing makes nothing.” A little background may illuminate that statement. Like Lisi, he had [...]