A Family History/Genealogy Resource
For members of the extended Schutze, Bartlett, McCrie and Ehrlich families.
Today's date is April 23rd (New York time zone)
On This Date
- Lois Grow was born in 1803 in Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut
- Hannah McWilliams was born in 1822 in Burford, Brant, Ontario, Canada
- Donald Campbell was born in 1841 in Glassary, Argyll, Scotland
- Louise Bertha Bieri was born in 1892 in Lowell, Kent, Michigan
- Katharina Johannes was born in 1899 in Kukkus (Wolskoje), Kukkus, Samara, Russia
- John James Elmer Kerr died in 1942 in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio
- Matilda E. Bieri died in 1979 in Owosso, Shiawassee, Michigan
From the Blog...
Another Door Opens
In preparation for our trip to Germany to walk in the footsteps of our ancestors, we reviewed the parish records of the Bavarian village of Röckingen, where our Schrotzberger ancestors hailed from. The Schrotzberger clan appeared in the parish records from 1736 through the time when our great-great-grandfather left to pursue his career as a …
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8 May 2023Just Ask a Librarian
Librarians are my favorite kind of people. They are exceptionally helpful … and altruistically so. Not motivated by profit, pride, or power, they offer their services with a generosity that’s, well, frankly, uncommon today. Combine that with their intelligence and resourcefulness, and you have a cadre of bookish people who are your best friends when …
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10 April 2023DNA: Did we pass the test?
It was with a certain amount of trepidation that we decided to take a DNA test. For one thing, I’m a private person, and exposing our DNA isn’t exactly the height of privacy. At best we open ourselves — if we allow it — to share our results with other researchers. At worst, we leave …
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26 March 2023The Story “Behind” the Photograph
One of my favorite family photographs[1] is of Friedrich Hermann Schütze (1851-1909), my great-grandfather. In the photograph he looks so intense, yet contemplative; a young man who knows where he’s going in life and has the ability and ambition to get there. (As it turned out, the “there” was America.) The bottom of the photograph …
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14 March 2023The Americanization of Friedrich Hermann Schütze
One of the biggest steps our immigrant ancestors could take in their newly adopted county — America — would be to disavow allegiance to their former country’s government and to indicate they wished to become U.S. citizens. Documentation of this step in the story of our German immigrant, Friedrich Hermann “Hermann” Schütze, was elusive. None …
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