Mapire ( http://mapire.eu/en/ ) provides access to historical maps of the Habsburg Empire. It contains maps of the First Military Survey (17...

My 4th-great-grandfather Johann Schauble was born 222 years ago today, on 18 December 1794, in Niederwihl, Waldshut, Baden, Germany. He was ...

The Battle of Verdun was one of the longest battles of World War 1. It was fought between the French and German troops, and lasted for nearl...

The Christmas market ( Weihnachtsmarkt ) is a tradition that goes back to the late Middle Ages in the German-speaking areas of Europe. It...

According to Dictionary of American Family Names , edited by Patrick Hanks (Oxford University Press, 2003), the surname Schunk comes from a ...

Baden 1801-1819. By ziegelbrenner [GFDL ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ), CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-s...

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

My 4th-great-grandfather Jacob Bär was born 238 years ago today, on 16 September 1778, in Görwihl, Waldshut, Baden, Germany. He was the son ...

My 3rd-great-grandfather Jakob Dreier was born 201 years ago today on 7 September 1815, in Niederwihl, Waldshut, Baden, Germany. He was the ...

My 5th-great-grandfather Joseph Schäuble (or Scheuble) was born 252 years ago today, on 2 September 1764, in Niederwihl, Waldshut, Baden, Ge...

Paulina Gersbacher, 1895 140 years ago today, on 13 August 1876, my great-grandmother Paulina (Gersbacher) Schneider was born in Nieder...

My 3rd-great-grandmother Maria Bär was born on 10 September 1818 in Görwihl, Waldshut, Baden, Germany. She was the daughter of Jacob Bär and...

Franco-Prussian War map of 1870. Cambridge Modern History Atlas . Edited by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. London: Cambr...

On 13 July 1809, my 3rd-great-grandfather Fridolin Gerspacher (or Gersbacher) was born in Görwihl, Waldshut, Baden. Faller, Helmut. Fam...

The surname Leÿ is one of my ancestral surnames. The German language used to include the letter ÿ , but it is no longer used. According to D...

The surname Nagel means "nail" in German. It is an occupational surname that was used by nailsmiths. Absolute distribution ©...

The surname Schneider means "tailor" in German. It is an occupational surname. These maps from Christoph Stöpel's Geogen 3.0 ...

My 5th-great-grandmother Elisabeth Arzner is my earliest known ancestor in my direct maternal line. She was born about 1758. On 26 April 178...

My 4th-great-grandmother Maria Anna Albiez (also known as Anna Maria Albiez) was born on 2 July 1796 in Oberwihl, Waldshut, Baden, Germany. ...

My 3rd-great-grandmother Franziska Schäuble was born on 24 September 1821 in Niederwihl, Waldshut, Baden, Germany. She was the daughter of J...