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Good Old Friends

This article was first published in “Der Blumenbaum“, the Sacramento German Genealogy Society’s award winning quarterly journal, in January 2012. We all know the feeling of hitting a brick wall, having turned every single stone upside down, having looked everywhere … Continue reading

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An Underestimated Village Chronicle

On the long and winding road to finding our German ancestors we all work with German church records. We look through the pages, trying to find a trace of our forebears, their siblings, their parents and cousins. If we get … Continue reading

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