Today’s post is another contribution made by Fred Eggers. I now think that we should have Fred write a blog post every June 27th. ====================================== Lynn Degenhardt, our resident genius who compiled and maintains the German Family Tree, asked me recently to document the available information for the Eggers and Hellwege families in 1842 so … More The Tangled Web of June 27 Blogs
I did it again. Fred Eggers was scheduled to do the blog for yesterday, February 17th, but I forgot about it and wrote my own post. So, today you are getting the post that Fred wrote for February 17th. It is a great article about a person that Fred actually got to know in his … More The First Sheriff That I Knew
First of all, I have to issue an apology to today’s guest blogger. At some point in time yesterday, I realized that Fred Eggers had sent me the blog post you will read today in an e-mail, and his post was written to be published yesterday. That is because the main character in Fred’s post … More An Early Perry County English Lutheran Pastor
It is Fair Week in Altenburg. In my opinion, Fred Eggers is the best person to tell the history of the East Perry Community Fair, and that is what you are getting today. Fred is in his 45th year of being the Publicity Chairman for the Fair. He has served 24 years on the Fair … More The Origins of The Best Little Fair in the Land
The author of today’s blog post is Fred Eggers. He requested this opportunity a while back because he wanted to write about an event that took place back in 1925. Of course, I relished the opportunity to let him take over the blog for the day, especially since I know that Fred always does an … More The 100th Anniversary of the Star Landing Raid
I am out of town, and our museum is closed today, so I am going to share an old post again. This one was originally intended to be posted on the Fouth of July in 2018, but there were some glitches that made that impossible. This post was written by our friend, Fred Eggers, who … More A Civil War Story – July 4, 1863
Fred Eggers is the author of today’s post. His offer to submit a post to our blog is perfectly timed because once again, I am not in Altenburg for a few days. It will be a little more difficult for me to write a post without causing family strife. Fred is an amazing researcher who … More The Johann Miesner Family in Scheeßel Church Records
Fred Eggers sent me this post several days ago when I was out of town. I will try not to bore you with all the details, but I found it difficult to format this story to place it on our website, and I did not have the time to get it done where I was. … More From Jeersdorf to Missouri
First of all, I must tell you why I am posting this type of story today. I spent quite a bit of time researching a story and was getting really close to writing it, but then I found even more information about that story. The new information caused me to make the decision to write … More Blog VIP’s
I am not going to tell the story of an individual person today. First of all, I was having trouble finding a story to write that had to do with today’s date. Secondly, I knew that we were having a few special guests coming to our museum today. Those guests were coming because they know … More Perusing Some Paitzdorf Papers
