I am really having trouble getting today’s post put together. That is because I am not feeling well at all, but the story I have to tell really should be told today. It may be shorter than it could be, but here we go. This story comes from two directions. First, we come to the … More It’s Our 3rd Anniversary
Today, I am going to return to a story that has already been written on this blog. I wrote the story two years ago on January 27, 2017. It was titled, Intersecting Exoduses. The story was told about how the steamboat, Knickerbocker, had to stop for repairs at the small Illinois village of Hamburg to … More First Sighting of Perry County
It is not often that I do a story that begins in the twentieth century. That is mainly because I cannot get at many records for people that lived past 1940. Today is an exception, mainly because today’s character is a member of my family, and I have enough information and photos to tell a … More Mousie
Once again, I’m writing a post a night before it will be published. We will be on the road again tomorrow, this time trying to outrun a snowstorm. We want to get ahead of it before it dumps a half-foot of snow on the ground. Then they are also forecasting temperatures in the -20’s in … More The Muddy Ohio
Two male first names that I so often see when I look in our German Family Tree are Heinrich and Herman. Although I did not refer to his full name yesterday, the main character in that post was Heinrich Herman Rauss. Today, it just so happens that I found another Heinrich Herman who was born … More Another Heinrich Herman
Several posts have been published about Perry County people moving to Nebraska. Some have been about those who settled in the western part of that state around Potter and Sydney. Others, like the ones in this story, settled in the northeastern part of Nebraska in the area shown by the map below. However, we have … More Henry Becomes a Husker
I am a little frustrated this morning. My efforts to find a good story to write for this blog today were rather fruitless. Because I am not in Altenburg, I look for a type of story that does not rely heavily on documents that we have in our research library. Instead, I look for a … More A Very Short Note from the Teacher
I actually wrote this post yesterday. That’s because I will be on the road almost all day today without a chance to write a story for January 23rd. Actually, my wife and I will be sort of replicating the trip made by my Schmidt ancestors 180 years ago aboard the Knickerbocker. We will be traveling … More Schmidts Traveling Upriver
Yesterday’s story was about a butcher, so when I found a birthday boy who was a butcher today, I figured it was a story I had to tell. As it turns out, this story led me all over the place. Before you get to the end of this story, you will see Lutheran church records … More Butcher to Billiards
Lebrecht Schmidt and Magdalena Froebel were married on January 21, 1883, so today would have been their 136th wedding anniversary. These two were married in Frohna, but eventually, several in their family ended up in Altenburg. I will attempt to tell the story of that family today. Lebrecht Schmidt was born on August 12, 1857 … More Butch’s Mom and Dad
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