Now there's a personal history lesson well recorded Jim!
My GGrandparents were central Austrians, moved and migrated/resettled north west to towns somewhere in the GermanRhineland. And for reasons unknown migrated again to America in 1909 were processed on Ellis Island and wound up in Minnesota. So as a boy in 1909 my grandfather Charles …
Now there's a personal history lesson well recorded Jim!
My GGrandparents were central Austrians, moved and migrated/resettled north west to towns somewhere in the GermanRhineland. And for reasons unknown migrated again to America in 1909 were processed on Ellis Island and wound up in Minnesota. So as a boy in 1909 my grandfather Charles was entered the archive registry asking for citizen ship. There have been family members who have on foot attempted to trace the trail back but have limited success. My cousin Paul was stationed in Berlin for 6 years. As traveling tourists they checked record books in small towns for the last name, often finding clues to the elders journeys. Time consuming it was, as much had been stripped from the archives and lost.
Now there's a personal history lesson well recorded Jim!
My GGrandparents were central Austrians, moved and migrated/resettled north west to towns somewhere in the GermanRhineland. And for reasons unknown migrated again to America in 1909 were processed on Ellis Island and wound up in Minnesota. So as a boy in 1909 my grandfather Charles was entered the archive registry asking for citizen ship. There have been family members who have on foot attempted to trace the trail back but have limited success. My cousin Paul was stationed in Berlin for 6 years. As traveling tourists they checked record books in small towns for the last name, often finding clues to the elders journeys. Time consuming it was, as much had been stripped from the archives and lost.