Tag Archives: Family: Wach

Week 29 Prompt: Challenging This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is”Challenging.” First thought—brick walls! Ten years ago (almost to the date!), I wrote about all of my German brick walls at that time. They were all tied to an immigrant ancestor, and were mainly self-imposed due […]

Heinrich WACH is my third great-grandfather. He was married to my third great-grandmother, Emilie WIETZKE, and I suspect he died between 1876 (last known child born) and 1884 (Emilie’s child with second husband born). The family is from Pommern, Preußen, and I suspect that both […]

Long story short.  I have a civil death record for a child of Heinrich Wach and Emilie Weitzke.  I have translated the record, except for one line.  Normally in this section it would name the spouse of the deceased, but since this was a child, […]

My Leppin line currently ends at my second great-grandfather, Herman LEPPIN. I don’t know much about his roots other than he apparently came from Germany and settled in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

My earliest known Miller (Müller) (in this line—I do have others from Luxembourg) is my second great-grandfather, Emil, who was probably born in or near Bromberg, Posen, Preußen (Prussia).  He is the only one of my 16 second greats whose fate is unknown.  Perhaps someone […]

Back in February, I spent quite a bit of time at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.  I hadn’t planned on working on my Miller/Wach/Wietzke clan, but after discussing German research with some friends over dinner, I shifted gears.  Later that night, I […]

Back in 2010, in honor of Women’s History Month, Lisa Alzo created a list of writing prompts for each day during the month of March.  I didn’t participate in 2010, so I’m going to take the opportunity to participate this year, since Lisa was kind […]

Hulda Wach was born in January of either 1868 or 1869 in Bernsdorf, Pommern, Preußen, daughter of Heinrich Wach and Emilie Wietzke.  She appears to be the oldest of the four known children of Heinrich and Emilie: Alvina, born about 1873; Carl August, born in […]