Author Archives: Ann

Peter Klein Family: Klines in Huntington County, Indiana

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Ann

As part of the series on the people who arrived on the Aristo, the next family on the passenger list to discuss is the Peter Klein family. While he is listed as “Peter Klein,” on the passenger list, I have … Continue reading →

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Matthias/Mathäus Trares (1791 – 1883)

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Ann

Matthias Trares is first on the transcript of the passenger list of the Ariosto that I wrote about in my previous post. So we’ll begin our discussion with him. Although we know Matthias emigrated to the United States in 1840, … Continue reading →

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The importance of the Ariosto

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Ann

I have written about a vessel named the Ariosto before – you can click here to check out the post if you haven’t read it. It was common in days past for people from the same village or city to … Continue reading →

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It’s family reunion time!

Posted on May 14, 2022 by Ann

Attention all Knapp clan members: Check out the Reunion 2022 tab to get the scoop about this year’s Knapp Family Reunion. Thank you to Gary Knapp for sending out the email to everyone listing all of the details. Guess who … Continue reading →

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Greetings from Heppenheim!

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Ann

This week I received a comment on the post I wrote about Barbara Koob, also known in America as Sister Marianne Cope. In case you haven’t read it, you can check it out here. The message is from a gentleman … Continue reading →

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Band of Brothers inspires couple to solve family WWII mystery

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Ann

When Erik and Sonni Bornmeier spent Memorial Day 2018 watching Band of Brothers, they had no idea the series would inspire them to try to solve the mystery of what had happened to Sonni’s great-uncle, an Army Air Force pilot … Continue reading →

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Summit County History

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Ann

While doing some genealogy research this week, I ran across an obituary for a person who died at Akron People’s Hospital. Since the date on the obituary was 1940, I had no idea which hospital this was since this was … Continue reading →

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Drop a card to Uncle Don

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Ann

We learned this week that Uncle Don Knapp is having some health challenges and won’t be able to visit this month as he and wife Virginia had planned. Virginia shared in an email that Don is in a lot of … Continue reading →

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Tragedy strikes the Wise family

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Ann

The photo above shows the Joseph E. Wise family in a photo taken sometime after 1895. How do we know the date? Tim De Frange was kind enough to share both the photo and the tragic story behind it on … Continue reading →

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Genealogy e-newsletters worth a look

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Ann

Recently a reader asked me to provide some tips about how people new to genealogy can learn more about how to uncover their own amazing true stories of their family’s history. One way is to subscribe to several genealogy-focused electronic … Continue reading →

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