Yesterday, millions of people watched Super Bowl LIX….or Super Bowl #59. In the midst of researching for this story of a man named Louis Lix, I had one of those “smack my head” moments. I realized the Super Bowl included the name Lix. That got my crazy brain moving in another direction. First, I wondered … More Judge Louis LIX
Not that long ago, I published the story titled, Lixville Klemp’s. The highlighted couple in that post had several children, and one of those will be the main character today. This post begins with the birth of a set of twins. On May 5, 1890, a set of twin boys was born in the Cinque … More August Klemp – The Surviving Twin
Today’s birthday girl does not have much of a presence in our German Family Tree. At least not yet. Below is an image of the items included in that document for Bertha Wilhelmine Scholl. If you look closely, her baptism and first marriage record are not indexed in the GFT. The only church record listed … More Scholl – Seabaugh – Bergmann – Ochs
The latest addition to our Research Library is the church record book of the Lutheran congregation in a little community known as Lixville, Missouri. This community is located in Bollinger County, not far from the town of Friedheim. Back in August of 2016, we posted a blog about the records from the Friedheim church titled, … More Lixville Records
