Research into the emigrants from Dorfprozelten who came to Australia in the 19th century
As I mentioned previously it was the addition of a new member to our facebook site that kicked off all this manic research, mainly because the family connected, however distantly, to my own Happ ancestry in Bavaria. Keith had written that his mother’s grandfather was a Julius Happ and they knew he came from Dorfprozelten … More Last but not least: Julius Happ
Translation: If you would like to read this post in a different language you can click here. For my own interest I’m summarising the inn-keeping genealogy of the Happ family in Dorfprozelten. The approximate time frame of direct descendancy is c1740-1940s. Generation 1: Adam Happ c1690 Generation 2: (Johann) Martin Happ (Fass) and Johann Happ (Anker) c1740-1770s … More The Happs – innkeepers in Dorfprozelten
Thanks for following along on this post about the Happ family who emigrated to the USA. Translation: If you would like to read this post in a different language you can click here. Emigration of Raimund/Raymond Happ As we know from the previous post, Raimund emigrated with his sister Anna Apollonia in 1869. He was only seventeen … More The emigrating Happs Part 2: Raimund Happ
Translation: If you would like to read this post in a different language you can click here. Some time ago I set up a Facebook page, The Dorfprozelten Diaspora, for those whose ancestors came from this Bavarian village. New members to the group are asked for their link to the village and who their ancestors were. Two weekends … More The Happ family emigrants: Part 1
Shauna Hicks has set us all a goal of 52 weeks of Genealogical Records. The topic for Week 11 (how did that happen?!) is Newspapers. Now, like most genies I love newspapers and being a bit of an old fogey I’ve used them extensively over the years. Once upon a time it was only possible … More 52 weeks of Genealogical Records: Newspapers
Anyone with Zöller/Zeller ancestry from Toowoomba or Chinchilla might be interested in this reunion. You can read more detail on my other blog, From Dorfprozelten to Australia. http://dorfprozeltenaus.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/zollerzeller-family-reunion-16-november-2013/
After the recent blogging drought, I’ve been doing some research into my Dorfprozelten families from Bavaria, with a focus on discoveries from the digitised German newspapers from Google books. Researchers with German ancestry might find today’s posts on my much-neglected From Dorfprozelten to Australia blog worth a read in case they can apply the results to their own … More German migration news: From Dorfprozelten to Australia
Back in 2009 I submitted a series of articles to the Queensland Family History Society’s Q150 project, Queensland Founding Families. If you have access to this book it is well worth looking at to see if there are any mentions of your pioneer families. I’ve decided to include my Dorfprozelten emigrant stories on this blog to … More Dorfprozelten emigrant stories
It’s all been about the Germans for the past week as I unravel mysterious old documents or hunt through the newspapers. I still haven’t located the departure of my George Kunkel even though I’ve found quite a lot of his compatriots. I’m sure he’s there somewhere but I may have to trawl through page after … More Finding the Fass in Dorfprozelten
Last week I posted about the excitement of discovering some German newspapers in Google Books. The exploration has taken a fair bit of time, even without getting down to full transcriptions and translations. I thought I’d share some practical tips I’ve developed as I’ve gone along bearing in mind the limitations I mentioned in my … More Searching German Newspapers/Books
Family history across the seas 