Folks around here pronounce the surname, Doering, as Daring. So today’s post title should be read as, A Daring Pi Day Birthday. After reading today’s story, perhaps you might say that today’s main character could be called a daring man because he was bold enough to go where others “dared not go” in order to … More A Doering Pi Day Birthday
I looked it up just to make sure. Today’s birthday girl is classified as my great grandaunt. Another way to put it is that this woman was my Grandma Mueller’s, Aunt Anna. I found several places that said the term “Great” should not be used when referring to siblings of your grandparents, but if you … More Great Grandaunt Anna Celebrates 175th Birthday
Ferdinand and Amalia (Theiss) Mueller had seven children before 1898, and all of them were girls. One of those girls, Bertha Mueller, was my grandmother. I can display this photograph of the parents of these girls. On February 7, 1898, a baby boy was finally born to this family. He would be the last child … More The Baby Brother of the Mueller Sisters
I think someday I’m going to go through our German Family Tree and look for all the women who over the years carried the name, Anna Roth. Some of those women were given that name at birth and others took that name when they married a man named Roth. You will read another one of … More The Roth-Richter Relationship
Today’s main character was mentioned in a previous blog that was written about his brothers titled, Two of a Kind….Later a Full House. Those brothers were a set of twins born on September 17th. What was not said in that post was that this set of twins had an older brother who was also born on … More Three Brothers – Same Birthday – Not Triplets
I will once again enter the Grebing family today to discuss the very first Grebing child to be born and baptized in Perry County, Missouri. After Hartmann Grebing married Justine Goethe on July 9, 1843, their first child, a boy named Johann Friedrich Grebing, was born on August 6, 1844. That would make today his … More Firstborn Grebing in Perry County
Today’s tale will include several marriages. The last one took place on February 13th, and that is the event that got me started. It is certainly not where the story begins. I will begin the story with the birth of Johann Heinrich Heins that took place in Lamstedt, Germany on July 18, 1839. He was … More The Heins-Mahnke-Wichern-Richter Maze
The story of Arthur Richter had me snookered for a little while. His wife, Emma, died in 1919, and then Arthur shows up as a widower in the 1920 census. However, in the 1930 and 1940 censuses, he is once again married to Emma. How could this be? There really is only one explanation. Arthur … More Arthur and His Two Emma’s
I know that there have been times in my life when I have been given the “brush off”. You probably have experienced that feeling yourself. Today, I will be giving you the Tuschoff. It is a surname that takes up very little space in our German Family Tree, but it leads us once again to … More Getting the Tuschoff
I found another story that sent me into the binder we have in our research library that describes the history of a Lutheran church that once existed in Arnsberg. Today’s story begins with a girl being born 170 years ago. Maria Richter was born on September 28, 1850. She was the daughter of Henry and … More The Richter/Dambach’s from Arnsberg
