Researching libraries, churches, courthouses and cemeteries for nearly 30 years with many years of information compiled by several ancestors and relatives as a starter kit. Ancestry includes Goettel, Ebinger, Hacklander, Wittler, Schmidt, Riethmiller, Gartzke, Koch, Schwartz, Meincke and Moeneke, to name a few.
I am very interested in the communities and social environments in which my ancestors lived and cemeteries are an integral part of those stories. Have become a bit of a stickler for using the most accurate information possible.
Ancestry.com and Find A Grave have been wonderful aids in refining and editing research with but one major complaint, their auto-fill geography includes only 21st century locations. Three of my eight immigrating families lived as much as two centuries in German speaking Prussian locales now in Poland. So thousands and thousands of people with heritage in eastern Brandenburg and the Province of Posen are labeled to have come from a tiny village in the formerly free state of Thuringia.

Researching libraries, churches, courthouses and cemeteries for nearly 30 years with many years of information compiled by several ancestors and relatives as a starter kit. Ancestry includes Goettel, Ebinger, Hacklander, Wittler, Schmidt, Riethmiller, Gartzke, Koch, Schwartz, Meincke and Moeneke, to name a few.
I am very interested in the communities and social environments in which my ancestors lived and cemeteries are an integral part of those stories. Have become a bit of a stickler for using the most accurate information possible.
Ancestry.com and Find A Grave have been wonderful aids in refining and editing research with but one major complaint, their auto-fill geography includes only 21st century locations. Three of my eight immigrating families lived as much as two centuries in German speaking Prussian locales now in Poland. So thousands and thousands of people with heritage in eastern Brandenburg and the Province of Posen are labeled to have come from a tiny village in the formerly free state of Thuringia.