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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Searching for my Theler Ancestors: Dielingen
Our third stop on our Friday morning tour (May 25, 2012) was to the village of Dielingen which sits on North Rhine-Westphalia’s border with Lower Saxony about 12.5 miles northwest of Hedem. In the 1970s Dielingen joined twelve other villages … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Germany, History, Travel
Tagged Carol Saint-Clair, church architecture, church history, church photography, Dielingen, Evangelical-Lutheran, Gothic, Hanover, Hedemer Buchholz, Hunteburg, Lubbecke, Meyerhofen, Minden, Osnabruck, photography, Romanesque, Stemwede, Theler, travel, travel photography
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Searching for my Theler Ancestors: German Genealogy, with a Twist
The twist has to do with inheritance. Our Thelers did not own their land. But they had a right to rent their land and then hand down that right to the youngest son. But what happens when you have just … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Germany, History, Travel
Tagged Alswede, Anke Waldmann, Ann Angel's Freedom, Carol Saint-Clair, Dielingen, Dinckelmann, farm name, genealogy, German genealogy, Hanover, Hedemer Buchholz, Hunteburg, Katharina Gerlach, Levermann, Lower Saxony, Meyerhofen, Moorfeldt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Osnabruck, Prussia, rules of inheritance, Schledehausen, Stemshorn, Theler, Westphalia
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Searching for my Theler Ancestors: Hedem and Hedemer Buchholz
Hedem is a sleepy village of about 500 people on the south side of the Mittellandkanal immediately to the west of Alswede. Hedemer Buchholtz is an even smaller farming community on the north side of the canal and is usually … Continue reading
Searching for my Theler Ancestors: Alswede
Our tour guide Carol Saint-Clair met us at the Remarque Hotel in Osnabrück at 9 am on Friday, May 25, 2012 and drove us north and east to Theler territory — several hamlets straddling the borders of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsesn) … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Germany, History, Travel
Tagged Alswede, Carol Saint-Clair, church architecture, church photography, church records, Espelkamp, Evangelical-Lutheran, genealogy, gravestone inscriptions, Hannover, Hedemer Strasse, LDS familysearch website, Lubbecke, Minden, Mittellandkanal, Osnabruck, photography, Prussia, St Andrew's Church, Theler, Theler surname variations, travel, travel photography, Westphalia
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Historic Osnabrück and the Thirty Years War
The most important event in the history of Osnabrück occurred on October 24, 1648 with the proclamation on the steps of the Osnabrück City Hall (Rathaus) that the Thirty Years War was over. Our tour of Historic Osnabrück on Thursday … Continue reading
Walking around Osnabrück’s Innenstadt
Here are some photos I took on our walks around Osnabrück’s city center (Innenstadt) on Thursday, March 24, 2012: In my next posting I will write about the tour we took on Thursday afternoon with our guide Carol Saint-Clair of … Continue reading
Walking along Osnabrück’s Heger-Tor-Wall
The first item on our To Do list after we arrived in Osnabrück on the ICE from Amsterdam and settled down in our room at the Steigenberger Remarque Hotel was to wash our week’s worth of dirty clothes. So we … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Travel
Tagged Felix Nussbaum, Felix Nussbaum House, Heger-Tor-Wall, Innenstadt, Johannis-Tor-Wall, Katherinenkirche, Kulturgeschlichtliches, Natruper-Tor-Wall, Osnabrück laundromat, Osnabrück museums, Osnabruck, photography, Remise, Schloss Wall, senior travel, Steigenberger Remarque Hotel, travel, travel photography
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