I have met my match today. I took a look at this family tree which can be found on Ancestry.com and just threw my hands up in dismay. I am flabbergasted. Today is the birthday of Marie Fredericke Steffens who was born in 1883 on March 23rd. She can be found in the left … More Flummoxed by a Family
Join Us, Sat. May 6, from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. at the Lutheran Heritage Center for a one day family research workshop. Our research team, including renowned family researcher, Ken F. Craft will gather in our state-of-the-art Starzinger Family Research Library for sessions on Your German Family Tree, the resources we have available in our library, DNA … More Attend Our Genealogy Workshop
Since I started writing for this blog a little over a year ago, I have learned some valuable lessons. I have discovered resources of which I was previously unaware. I will share one of those resources today. I have always had our Starzinger Family Research Library here at the Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum as … More Useful MO Genealogical Resources
I am away from the wonderful resources that we have in our museum’s research library, so I cannot do the normal research I do to come up with our blog posts. So today, I am going to merely throw out a few names of interest to see if any of our readers may have any … More Fourth of July Quiz
Our Research Crew had no idea what to write about today. And then Ted Mueller walked in the door. Ted was here from Chester, Illinois to do the job of touching up the paint job on the interior of Trinity Lutheran Church here in Altenburg. Ted had painted the entire interior of the church about … More Another Mueller Mystery Solved
You’ve heard of “Where is Waldo?” Today we ask the question, “Where is Theodore?” We are looking for Theodore Fischer. One source that we have indicates the in the photo on the left above, that Theodore Fischer is the boy on the left. This is a segment of the photo we posted a few days … More Where is Theodore?
Yesterday, I posted a photo of Teacher Hemmann’s class at Trinity Lutheran School in Altenburg, Missouri. In that photo was a pair of twins. Those twins have now been identified. They are Marie and Martha Lorenz (like Mary and Martha in the Bible story). Their parents were Christian F. and Ida (Schlimpert) Lorenz. The twins … More Together in Birth and Death
The Research Crew at the Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum have been asked to solve a mystery. We were contacted by a gentleman from Nebraska from the Gieringer family. For some reason, the pictured confirmation certificate was given to him by his uncle. What he does not understand is why the confirmation certificate of Meta … More Can You Solve This Mangels Mystery?
