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Posted by Amy Klemke Uehara on April 11, 2020

Get in Your Car and Go; One Young Man’s Solo Journey from Wisconsin to Babenhausen in western Germany to the Oderbruch in eastern Germany and western Poland in 1999 and in 2000.

    Our friend, BILLY GENSMER, of Wisconsin has written about his family and his journey to the Oderbruch area, west and east of the Oder/Odra River in 1999 and again in 2000. It seems that his 1999 trip was just a few weeks apart from that of Amy KLEMKE Uehara’s the same year. It would

Posted by Amy Klemke Uehara on August 19, 2018

WURL INFORMATION – Research by Dicksie Knight May

WURL INFORMATION – Research by Dicksie Knight May   Wilhelm WURL (1821-1894) + Caroline Wilhelmine GABRIEL (1826-1906) Alt Custrinchen, Prussia. Both died in Laramie, WY. These are my My great-great-grandparents who, along with their children and spouses, traveled directly to the US in 1879 and 1880.    1. Caroline Maria WURL (1846-1923) + Friedrich Carl

Posted by Amy Klemke Uehara on August 19, 2018

MATTHES WOLLIN INFORMATION compiled by Dicksie Knight May on 11 Mar 2011

  Ferdinand Christian Johann MATTHES, aka Fred. aka Johann Ferdinand and Christian Ferdinand. Born: 24 Oct 1835at Alt Rüdnitz/Rüednitz, Brandenburg, Germany Died: 4 Jan 1921, Tabatha Home in Lincoln, NE. Buried 6 Jan 1921: Wisner, Cuming, NE.  Married: Marie aka Marea WOLLIN (spellings found in Cuming County records: WOLLIN, /WOLLEN, & WOULIN by Lois Schultz).Gravestone

Posted by Amy Klemke Uehara on January 29, 2018

Genealogy Query: Alt Rüdnitz, Alt Kustrinchen;PRUEGEL, MALCHOW; by David Knecht

My name is David KNECHT, born Fayette County, Illinois, now living in East Lansing Michigan.   I am interested in exchanging information with anyone who has background about Alt Rüdnitz or Alt Kustrinchen, Prussia. My Great-Great-Grandmother, Johanna Wilhelmine PRUEGEL was born in Alt Rüdnitz on 30 August 1829 and my Great-Great-Grandfather Johann Friederich MALCHOW was

Posted by Amy Klemke Uehara on December 16, 2017

Precious – Backe Backe Kuchen Unites Distant Cousins

    Backe backe Kuchen, a traditional German nursery rhyme about baking a cake, unites distant cousins across the seas and generations.   Backe, backe Kuchen, Der Bäcker hat gerufen! Wer will gute Kuchen backen, Der muss haben sieben Sachen: Eier und Schmalz, Butter und Salz, Milch und Mehl, Safran macht den Kuchen gel’! (gelb)