familystories
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A soldier in the family “We don’t talk about Vietnam.” A phrase that I’ve said for as long as I can remember. I had grown up knowing that my dad had been drafted into the Vietnam war and had fought in it. I knew he was angry his entire life for having to do something
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Earliest birth date We already took a look at Henry Trumbauer (headstone above) on day 3, earliest burial site. For the earliest birth date, we look at Henry’s father, Andrew Trumbauer. Andrew was part of the first generation of Trumbauer’s that were born in America, his parents being from Germany. He was born in 1717
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A grave you’ve visited I enjoy visiting cemetery’s. I find them eerily calming. I always make an effort to go visit the graves of my ancestors in North Dakota when I’m back home. It doesn’t make me sad. I look forward to it. Okay, sometimes it is a little sad… I’ve visited the Forman Cemetery
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Famous Ancestor I guess this one is kind of up for interpretation and what your definition of “famous” is. I don’t think I have any famous ancestors in my family tree. At least none that I can find. Instead, I looked at a tree I’ve been working on for my co-worker. Her husband’s family is
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Newspaper article: All names have been censored for privacy purposes. This was the first article that hit a little close to home. I had just started exploring Newspapers.com to see what I could find and happened to stumble across this one. I was a little surprised that I had never been told this before. It’s
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Earliest burial site The earliest burial site that I have found where I can 100% accurately trace my ancestors back is Our Forefathers Mennonite Cemetary in Quakertown, PA. This is where my 6th great-grandfather Heinrich “Henry” Trumbauer was buried in 1813. His headstone is extremely weathered and broken but the good news is that there
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Interesting Record These letters have been edited to make the handwriting easier to read. It was done in pencil so parts of it are quite faded. It is in surprisingly good condition to have been written in 1903. I have transcribed it and fixed some of the spelling and grammatical errors. The letter reads: Sep
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Favorite Ancestor I can’t pick a favorite ancestor. There are a handful that take turns for the top spot and right now I would say it is my great-grandma, Alida Sophia Amerman (Bartl). My mom had a very special relationship with Alida, her grandma. Instead of Bethany Marie, I was almost an Aletha Sophia. Out
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I’ve always had an interest in my ancestors and where they came from. I spend most of my time working on my mom’s side of the family (usually the Martin’s and Amerman’s, but Bartl, too) partly because I grew up sitting around a table with the adults playing pinochle and listened to all their stories
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I know having many children was pretty common back in the day and my maternal grandfather’s family was no exception. John David and Kathryn Susannah (Trumbauer) had 13 children, 11 surviving. The man in the back row on the left is my 2nd great-grandfather, Charles Romig Martin. He had a reddish tint to his hair
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