The Trials and Travails of My Forebears

Wilhelm Dombrowe and Johanna Christiane (Tilgner) Dombrowe were my great-great-great-great-grandparents. Their son Emil Dombrowe was my grea...

John O'Connor and Katherine (Bruce) O'Connor were my great-great-grandparents. Their daughter Emily (O'Connor) Thielen was my gr...

Peter Thielen and Mary (Kurten) Thielen were my great-great-grandparents. Their son Mathias Thielen was great-grandfather, and his son Willi...

Heinrich Bergander and Helene (Lebede) Bergander were my great-great-great-great-grandparents. Their daughter Johanna (Bergander) Stache was...

This is just a note to anyone reading to say that I have gone through all of my old blog posts to update them with new information that I...

Seventy-five years ago today, my grandfather's brother Charles Michael "Charlie" Thielen was a navigator in a bomber that ...

Christoph Jammer and Johanna (Brüche) Jammer were my great-great-great-great-grandparents. Their daughter Caroline (Gammer) Dombrowe was my...