As I was working on some of my family genealogy, I discovered that I had a great-great-grandfather who lived in Germany in the 1700s, and his occupation was a cellarman. II wanted to understand a bit...
Category: German Heritage
Why Are There So Many German Illegitimate Children (1700 and 1800s)?
I was doing some genealogy research and was quite surprised to find that a great German grandfather and grandmother had eight children but their first child was born before they were married and the...
As I was looking over some of the papers from R. Stuart Hummel located at Stanford University collection, I came across a very old German Newspaper clipping. The newspaper clipping talked about a...
Memoirs of Germany – 1952, From R. Stuart Hummel’s Round-The-World Trip
My dad's cousin R Stuart Hummel (1915-2007) worked for the U.S. Government. He was also a great historian who kept many of his own records plus our family's records. These records are now part of...
We have many German ancestors from Swabia, so I have often wondered what Swabia means? Or where was Swabia? Swabia is a region in southern Germany; the people in this region speak Swabian German....
I have great parents who came to the United States from the Minden area of Westphalia. Like many parts of present-day Germany, this area has a fascinating history. Westphalia's history goes back...
