tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40638993566844870942024-02-08T07:44:28.202-08:00Heritage Travel by Family Tree ToursGenealogy Research and Heritage TravelKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-88529025058656860642013-12-24T21:42:00.001-08:002013-12-24T21:42:55.405-08:00Irish Research and Famine VideoI recently taught a class for my local genealogical society on Irish Research Techniques. As those of you who have Irish ancestors know how difficult it is to find their records and/or hometowns, we are always anxious to learn new tips or tricks. I showed some websites that have indexes from Ireland’s County Heritage Centers where you can check birth, marriage and death records. We also Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-28836372240540447112013-10-22T16:08:00.000-07:002013-10-22T16:08:08.100-07:00Familienbuch, Burgerbuch and Ortssippenbuch.
Familienbuch,
Burgerbuch and Ortsippenbuch's.On our Rhineland trip this
year (2013) we visited and toured the Evangelische Archivestelle Boppard
(the Evangelish Church Archives in Boppard) This
depository has microfilms and many books for the Protestant church
records in the Rhineland, we were shown their collection of
Familienbuchs and were taken down into the stacks where we were Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-90923445976233695972013-06-02T18:25:00.000-07:002013-06-02T18:25:02.145-07:00German Journeymen & Wanderbuch's
The Wandering Years
On my recent trip to Germany, I caught a news story on TV
that was of interest to me (although my understanding of spoken German is very
limited) and perhaps to others with German heritage. The story was about a
traveling craftsman and his Wanderbuch. This gentleman was an apprentice bricklayer,
and told of his adventures on his journey of 3 years and 1 day. &Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-84376727822314575412012-06-13T19:54:00.000-07:002012-06-13T19:56:40.204-07:00Water Castles in Munsterland, GermanyOn my recent post I talked about visiting a landlord’s house in Northwest Westphalia. It made me wonder who did the landlord answer to? He was the collector but was there someone over him. In some cases the landlord of a large farm was the collector for the noble family or church "owner" of the land. They would live in a larger castle or palace or ornate Residence House. So we traveled a little Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-64394516277998098992012-05-28T17:46:00.000-07:002012-05-28T17:46:21.662-07:00
German trip May 2012
Well I am home from Germany now and I always have good
intentions of blogging every day when I am there, but that never happens. Never
enough time, although I do take train or car time to jot down a few notes. So, I will try to write about things now as I
look through the pictures.
We usually do a trip in May because Germany is such a
pleasure to the eye in MayKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-33779720762600330852012-05-06T01:59:00.000-07:002012-05-06T02:02:17.886-07:00WDYTYA & Hessian SoldiersDid you watch last week's WDYTYA and follow Rob Lowe’s journey of finding his ancestor that had been a Hessian soldier that fought in the American Revolutionary War? Do you have or think you may have a “Hessian soldier” in your background? Then here is a site from the Archives in Marburg, Hesse, Germany that has a database for Hessian Troops in America. First a little Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-58811365606434093112012-04-24T10:32:00.000-07:002012-04-24T10:32:31.650-07:00You Must Go Home AgainWhen you are researching your German ancestors don’t forget to mine all the resources from the towns they lived in. Perhaps before they settled someplace permanently they lived in several states and there were major life events that happened in that town. Marriages, births, deaths or maybe just a mention in the local paper, these are all things you need to check out for the mention ofKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-80823274163728411352012-04-03T16:32:00.002-07:002012-04-03T16:38:23.382-07:00Finding Your German Ancestral Hometown in Church RecordsIn our first blog in this series we gave an overview of different ways to find your Ancestral hometown but one thing I want to go into more depth about is the importance of looking at all church records your ancestor may have created. Especially look for those first immigrants. Where they married in the U.S.? Check the church record for this entry. Many of the early immigrants would have gone to Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-85457615420910393152012-04-03T16:23:00.003-07:002012-04-03T16:30:37.989-07:00Resources for Finding Your German Ancestral HometownToday I would like to start a small series of postings on German resources and how to find your hometown. Often people say to me: “I know that my ancestors emigrated from Germany and I would love to go on a trip, but I don’t know how I can find their hometowns. "I was telling my German business partner about this and he offered to write his thoughts on some ideas of where to check for that Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-88444944933790660732011-07-03T18:07:00.000-07:002011-07-07T23:46:22.976-07:00How They Lived & How They Left<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-38620922864745624692011-06-19T19:52:00.000-07:002011-06-19T20:10:28.463-07:00Northwest Germany Tour - Finding the StoriesIt is always exciting for me to welcome another group to Germany on their discovery of their ancestor’s home place. They usually arrive with the facts of their family and hopefully they leave with a little more of the story of their family. So on Sunday the 19th we greeted our group to the Northwest of Germany to help them get their family stories. We settled in at the hotel and after a little Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-53005261467780527652011-05-24T22:14:00.000-07:002011-05-24T22:23:46.830-07:00Resources for Finding that German TownTO FIND THE KIND OF INFORMATION YOU NEED, turn first to ALL available U.S.(or other non-European) records for an ancestor who emigrated to America,and his descendants (starting with yourself and working backward, withoutinterruption). These include birth, marriage and death records (issued byBOTH the civil government AND a person’s Catholic or Lutheran church inAmerica—the church records of Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-62228797949692921572011-05-23T21:19:00.000-07:002011-05-23T21:40:03.715-07:00I Can't Go Yet, I Don't Know the Town “I can’t go yet, I don’t know the town”. I hear that all the time and I agree it is special to be able to walk through the exact town your ancestor did but what if you never find that town? I don’t want to burst any one’s bubble but that is a possibility. Not to say you won’t find it down the road but why deprive yourself a wonderful trip to the country your ancestor came from, maybe evenKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-56864299743235040632011-04-21T19:53:00.000-07:002011-04-21T20:18:25.436-07:00Walking Through TimeLess than two months before my next small group tour to Germany in June. This is about the time I tell the group to start walking. Do a little bit every day so that you don’t get tired out while visiting Germany. Also, if you plan on buying new walking shoes get them and break them in. Why all the warnings? Germany and Europe in general, is best appreciated by walking. Europe is not a drive Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-21266593217965341192011-02-18T18:28:00.000-08:002011-02-18T18:34:43.784-08:00WDYTYA - And Heritage Travel<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-38900412662643661762011-02-12T14:02:00.000-08:002011-02-12T14:55:43.134-08:00Treasures from Ancestral Hometown VisitSnowed in, I guess you’ve heard that a lot of the country had a blizzard. So this gave me an opportunity to get some things done that I normally think I don’t have time to do. One of these things was to wash the dishes that I keep in my dish buffet. As I replaced some of them, my dishes from France took me back to my first trip to Europe and memories of my mom and our trip to her grandfather’s Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-11432306451685370052010-12-12T18:34:00.000-08:002010-12-14T19:40:53.928-08:00Unterknausen, GermanyToday I am excited to have a "guest" blogger on my site. Jean Funk was on our last trip to Bavaria in Sept. 2010 and she has a great story about her trip to her German hometown. Thanks Jean!!I always knew that my Grandfather had been born in Unterknausen, Germany, but I knew nothing further. My mother and her sisters told me that my grandfather was an orphan and had been raised in a Catholic Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-72265016541305227122010-12-04T18:33:00.000-08:002010-12-04T18:45:13.922-08:00More German Christmas TraditionsOn the evening of December 5th, St. Nicholas Day, German children leave their shoes or boots outside the front door. That night, Santa Claus, Nikolaus, visits and fills them with chocolates, oranges and nuts if they’ve been good. His servant, Knecht Ruprech, leaves bundles of twigs in the shoes if the children have been naughty and are listed in his ‘black book’.In some parts of the country, it’sKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-35941461284543002552010-12-03T20:22:00.000-08:002010-12-03T20:31:57.873-08:00German Traditions & Holiday CustomsThe month of December is here and people all over the world practice their traditions handed down over centuries. I thought I would tell you about a few from Germany, one of our favorite places to visit.The Legend of St. BarbaraThe traditional feast day of Saint Barbara is December 4th, and this date plays a key role in the interesting custom that bears the Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-17276127670127015872010-11-23T09:10:00.000-08:002010-11-23T09:30:07.386-08:00Irish Research & Heritage Tour July 9-19, 2011$1750.00 pp dbl$200.00 sgl supplementA dazzlingly green emerald sparkling in the Atlantic, Ireland is surrounded by tumultuous oceans and guarded by great sea cliffs. Over the years thousands of emigrants left this beautiful island to faraway destinations. Perhaps you are descended from these brave emigrants and you want to return “home” to learn what their life was like and why they left. Join Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-61420711701713042682010-11-21T13:47:00.000-08:002010-11-21T14:10:07.543-08:00New York City - Washington DC Tour 2011I usually am talking about trips I have already been on but I thought I would tell you of some of the upcoming trips for 2011. Perhaps you would want to join us, or know someone who would be interested. We are planning on travelling April 15-22, 2011 to attend a genealogy conference at the National Archives on April 20 -21 but we will spend some time in NYC before this. Here are some links forKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-11723411252210666882010-10-10T16:46:00.000-07:002010-10-10T17:05:25.876-07:00Rothenburg ob der TauberMonday - last day to sight-see and we are off to Rothenburg ob der Tauber. One of the best known medieval towns in Germany and one of the cutest, although full of tourists. It is a must see. No schedule today, just a chance to roam the town, walk the wall that surrounds the city and of course pop in the Christmas store. I think everyone enjoyed the day.Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-32909376236809756112010-10-10T14:23:00.000-07:002010-10-10T15:24:25.613-07:00WeissenburgSunday – Back in Time to Visit the Romans – We traveled south today to visit a town on the German Limes Road called Weissenburg. The German Limes (pronounced Leemas) Road was the line that traveled up through southern Germany turning to make its way along the Rhine and even further and further north that the Romans had frontier outposts on. It truly was a Roman Empire. It was a beautiful sunny Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-1760894340983668062010-10-10T13:52:00.000-07:002010-10-10T14:22:18.570-07:00Hometown Vists and Bad Wimpfen<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063899356684487094.post-63278754761599563422010-10-10T13:21:00.000-07:002010-10-10T13:52:16.379-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04616212613833697264noreply@blogger.com0