A Big Brick Wall: When the Family Story Doesn’t Match the Records
I was very hopeful that I would solve another one of those genealogy mysteries this past month, and now I’m very frustrated that I haven’t quite done that. Many of…
Stories and research from the Meydam and Prey family trees.
An Unusual Boat
My husband’s great-great grandfather, August Meydam, immigrated from Danzig, West Prussia (now Gdańsk, Poland) to Elderon, Wisconsin, USA in the early 1880s. A certified carpenter and wagon maker in Prussia,…
The Golf Outing: A Love Story
Couples have all kinds of stories about how they met. Some sound like they're straight out of a fairytale. Others... well, don't. Some stories are so typical of the era…
We’re Not Polish, We’re German
My husband Tim’s mother, Helen, is another crazy genealogist after my own heart! When I married Tim, I got her permission to continue her work on the family tree. If…