Visit to Ancestral Marklohe, Germany

October 11 Recent guests from Minnesota visited the village of Marklohe, Germany recently. The blog address below shows photos from this brief stop on the way to Amsterdam. Rosen Family in Marklohe

Following the Footsteps of His Father in Germany

October 7 Patrick Majewski started planning his private tour in Germany in July, 2013 following a bus tour with his wife, Carol. One of the primary objectives of the trip was visiting sites where his father had been kept as a prisoner of war during World War II in Germany. During the last couple of […]

Blog Post Leads to Personal Visit to Ancestral Village and More

October 3 A blog post from a family tour we did back in 2006 resulted in Marv Rosen bringing his family to Germany to visit relatives, see ancestral villages and also take in some of the beautiful and historic countryside of Germany and the Netherlands. The Rosens visited Marklohe, Niedersachsen towards the end of their […]

How Do You End the Trip of a Lifetime in Germany?

August 23 Dolores Petit always wanted to visit her ancestral country of Germany but her husband would not allow it. A member of the French Resistance as a young teen, he harbored hard feelings against not just some Germans but the entire country. When they traveled, they went to see his relatives in France. So, […]

A 1,000 year-old baptismal font in the ancestral church

August 21 There are baptismal fonts and then there is the font in the little church at Kirchtimke, near Steinfeld, Niedersachsen, Germany. While the church is older than most in America, having been built in 1739, the font is truly spectacular. It is Romanesque and dates back at least 1,000 years. That means it was […]

Heartfelt Thank You For Care Package 67 Years Later

August 21 Dolores Petit is on the Trip of a Lifetime back to her roots in northern Germany. On the second day of her visit with relatives in the hamlet of Steinfeld, she suddenly came face to face with a woman whom she has never met. However, she gave that woman something so special, so […]

Lifelong dream comes true with trip to ancestral country of Germany

August 16 This morning a long-awaited journey finally started for Dolores (Braun) Petit, who has deep roots in Germany but who never had the chance to come due to hard feelings resulting from World War II. Her husband was a fighter in the French Resistance as a young teenager and his father was kept in […]

Visiting Cousins in Grafshaft Veldenz, Germany

August 11 Give us 11 months to prepare for a family history trip and you just never know what you are going to experience. How about stepping foot into the house where your great-grandmother lived as a little girl? What about wine tasting with cousins, who by the way, also make that wine? What about […]