Archive for December, 2009
This Tombstone Tuesday, I thought I’d post about my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Schulte Kramer. The road to her maiden name was long and paved with many an assumption but very little facts. When I started research on my dad’s side of the family, he didn’t even know his grandparent’s names. His father died in 1976 and […]
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Tags: Bernhard Kramer, cook county illinois, elizabeth kramer, frederick schulte, Germany, katherine raude, Kramer, Tombstone Tuesday, wonderlin
As is probably obvious by now, I’ve focused majority of my research for the past five or six years on the Kramer side of my family. It’s the name I carry and it’s a name I cherish — if I ever marry I will not drop my name and when my son was born I […]
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Tags: Arkansas, Harland, Sanders, Tinsley Crutchfield
Only a few posts on this here blog and already, it’s consumed with talk to the Fittje’s. Obviously, the Fittje’s are dominating about 90% of my research at this point and it’s been that way for nearly a year now. It was a hellishly long road to make even one tiny connection to this family […]
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Tags: Apen Germany, Augustfehn Germany, Bernhard Kramer, Codington County, fittje, genealogy, Germany, South Dakota, Vreschen-Bokel Germany
homegrown kin 