My 4th-great-grandmother Agathe Weiler (or Wieler) died 158 years ago today. All that I know about her comes from Familienbuch der katholisc...

Since this week's 52 Ancestors theme is free (pick your own theme), I have chosen the theme Movember. The Movember Foundation was found...

The maps below show the absolute distribution and relative distribution (considering population density) of the surname Lindlohr in Germany....

My 2nd-great-grandfather Carl Joseph Schneider was born on 22 Jan 1855 ...

In January, I traveled to Germany and visited some ancestral places. I loved visiting all of them, but I found Erpel especially beautiful. ...

The below letter was written in 1900 by my great-great-grandfather Carl Joseph Schneider to his wife Christina (Nagel) Schneider and their c...

Pfarrkirche St. Severinus is a Roman Catholic Church in Erpel, Kreis Neuwied, Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany.   The...

The Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen after it was captured by U.S. troops, 7 March 1945. U.S. Signal Corps/ National Archives. ...

I photographed this map in Erpel, Neuwied, Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany. Stadtrundgang means "city tour" in...

Ancestry.com has made Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire (Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs) available free. The ga...

For a long time, I did not know that my Schneider ancestors had family in St. Louis when they arrived. My great-great-grandparents Carl Jose...

Rhein-Karte. Map by Daniel Ullrich (Threedots) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 )]. Available from Wikimedia...

Photo from page 165, Missouri - Soldiers of the Great War , compiled by W. M. Haulsee, F. G. Howe, and A. C. Doyle. Washington, DC: Soldi...

My great-great-grandparents Carl Joseph Schneider and Christina Nagel were married in Bonn, Germany on 31 January 1878. Carl Joseph Schne...