I am republishing an old post today, but for a different reason than normal. Without going into details, both my personal Facebook account and the museum’s Facebook page have been experiencing issues. My personal account has now been restored, but we are still experiencing a situation in which our museum Facebook page is useless to … More Rev. J.F. Koestering’s First Marriage Record
Before I tell today’s story, I need to tell you that after I published yesterday’s post that had what I called unanswered questions, a comment was placed on that post by Tim Yamnitz. Tim is an outstanding researcher who lives in Germany. He has the uncanny ability to read the old German script. His comment … More Julius and Louise – The Dietrich’s
Today’s post was written by Sally Thies Gustin. A few weeks ago, we published a post about Ernst and Ella Arbeiter titled A Serious Worker at His Hardware Store. In that post, I more or less challenged Sally to contribute an article for our blog about her Arbeiter/Estel family. It did not take Sally long … More Heart-felt Support for Juli
I’m going to start today’s story toward the end, and then go back in time. Here are some photos that were taken at a 50th wedding anniversary celebration. I’ll show both sides of the next photo. The back side identifies the people in the photo and can actually be used to identify the people in … More The Estels Go East
