I did some research this past week after posting about my great grand uncle Charles Skipper you can read the original blog post here https://ellajaneanne.home.blog/2019/08/06/the-life-of-charles-edgar-skipper/ . If you want to know the full story read the original blog post of The life of Charles Skipper before reading the update. I had several questions about what… Continue reading Update:The Life of Charles Skipper.
Author: Jennifer Bigham
My name is Jennifer Bigham and I love everything genealogy especially German genealogy. I have spent the last 12 years researching my ancestors. I love to share with anyone about my journey into German genealogy and the things I have learned.
The Mystery of Ruth and Ruby Patterson.
Ruth and Ruby are one of the many mysteries in my family history. Ruth and Ruby are twins born around 1902 in Crockett County, Tennessee. They are the daughters of my second great grandparents James William Patterson, born 1 February 1863 in Gadsen, Crockett, Tennessee and Jimmie Ella Smith, born 1868 in Gadsen, Crockett, Tennessee.… Continue reading The Mystery of Ruth and Ruby Patterson.
The life of Charles Edgar Skipper.
Charles Skipper is my great grand uncle, son of my great grandparents George Newton Skipper and Sarah Catherine Bishop, born 2 April 1885 in Effingham, Illinois. When Charles was about 8 years old George and Sarah made the move to Oklahoma and George ran in the 1893 Cherokee Strip Land Run, where he staked a… Continue reading The life of Charles Edgar Skipper.
Catholic Records in Hesse, Germany.
I have one line of my German ancestors that is Catholic and I was not sure how to research them. As I learned about archion.de having Lutheran Church records, I started to research how to find Catholic records and see if I could find my family. I was specifically looking for more information on my… Continue reading Catholic Records in Hesse, Germany.
My Great Aunt Anneliese.
Recently my great Aunt Anneliese Schmitt, born Anna Marie Elizabeth Burghardt on 2 February 1926 in Kassel Germany, passed away. I never meet Anneliese in person but emailed with her for several years and loved getting to know her and learn more about my Germany family. Anneliese (Burghardt) and Wilhelm Schmitt, my great aunt and… Continue reading My Great Aunt Anneliese.
Opal Beatrice Ethel Pearl Hazel Rosie Dollie Dell Skipper.
Opal is the reason I became interested in my family history. My daughter was working on a project and needed more information on her family tree. As my daughter and I began looking into our family we came across Opal and believed that there was a question as to what her middle name was. We… Continue reading Opal Beatrice Ethel Pearl Hazel Rosie Dollie Dell Skipper.
The Death of Loved Ones.
Researching your family can be sad at times. Especially when you see what the death rate was. I have come across many families who have lost several children. One family in particular pulled at my heartstrings. Catherine Gossmann is my 3rd great-grand aunt. Her parents are Jost Heinrich Gossman and Gertrud Elisabeth Thielemann, my 4th… Continue reading The Death of Loved Ones.
Proving Family Connections.
Most of the time proving sibling's is easy, you see a baptism record with the same parents listed and in the same town or village location, then they are likely siblings. In the United States you can prove families with census records, but in Germany I have not found any census records or anything that… Continue reading Proving Family Connections.
My Great Grandmother
I decided today to blog about my great grandmother, Alta Estelle Gilbreath. She was an amazing women who lived to be 101 1/2 years old. Alta was born on 5 August 1898 in a dug out in Indian Territory, Oklahoma. As a child I remember her telling us stories of traveling across the state of… Continue reading My Great Grandmother
Records and WWII
One thing that my Grandmother would tell me when I asked her about researching her Germany family was all the records were destroyed during WWII. She once told me that she had tried to research in Kassel and what we had was all that there was. She even said that what she had, she gave… Continue reading Records and WWII
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