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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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A Letter From America

Close translation of a letter from Marie Stange to her brother Carl in Germany, Fall 1858, probably in Cottage Hill (Elmhurst) My dear beloved brother, I do not have to tell you how happy your last letter made me, because … Continue reading

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