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  • Genealogy success story: Family memory lost in Sudetenland

    Diane Jacobs PhD|Dec 23, 2016

    I started my genealogy research 18 years ago with the information I had available-not much. My maternal grandparent's marriage record included the names and birthplaces of their parents. The name for that great-grandfather, Joseph Rosenberger (1851-1899), happened to be the same as my mother's brother, so I felt I was on the right track. I was not aware of my great-grandfather having any siblings on either side of the Atlantic, and could find no mention of siblings in any census records since his arrival in 1869. The birthplace information in... Full story