Tag Archives: Family: Wach

I’ve written many times about Emil MILLER and Hulda WACH, both immigrated to the US from Germany and settled in Chicago, where they eventually married.  I knew from notes in family papers that Hulda married a second time, to John Severing, and they had a […]

This week’s challenge from Randy is: List your 16 great-great-grandparents with their birth, death and marriage data (dates and places). Determine the countries (or states) that these ancestors lived in at their birth and at their death. For extra credit, go make a “Heritage Pie” […]

This is a follow-up to my Finding Emil post from last month. I haven’t really be able to figure out much since that post, but I’ve found some more information that may eventually help, including a real photo postcard in the box of photos from […]

I’ve written about my Emil MILLER brick wall before (Brick Wall – Emil MILLER/MULLER and German Brick Walls).  There are so many possibilities, as there are several variant spellings (Miller, Muller, Mueller, Moeller, Millar, etc.) and there happen to be many of them living in […]

Randy’s challenge for this evening is as follows: List your 16 great-grandparents in pedigree chart order. List their birth and death years and places. Figure out the dominant ethnicity or nationality of each of them. Calculate your ancestral ethnicity or nationality by adding them up […]

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

The topic for the 22nd edition of Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy is roadblocks and breakthrough encountered during your genealogy research.

I’ve been wanting to know more about the parents of Hulda WACH (i.e., my third great-grandparents), but have only had a few pieces of information:  the surname and the mother’s first name (Amelia).  I’ve talked about this brick wall a few times here on my […]