Auswanderer - from Bavaria, Bohemia and Bukovina
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Donations welcome! Much of our research has taken place in archives in Germany such as in Amberg, Regensburg, Lichtenau, Osnabrueck, and in Czech Republic. Going to these places requires hours of driving, hotel costs, and archive fees, not to mention fees for photocopies. For any reader who appreciates this work and would care to donate something for expenses, please contact me at the email address above!
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History of this website
Ruskauff-Freker website, designed by earlydues in 2002, had a visitor count of 3,263 when the site was discontinued in April 2010. The reason for closing the Ruskauff-Freker website was it was too much work to keep it updated. On March 4, 2006, I began a new site called "Auswanderer - from Bavaria, Bohemia and Bukovina" hosted at Google Pages. In 2008, Google Pages announced it would discontinue their free web page service. The visitor count was 1,382 when I moved my pages to Google Sites in August 2008. This "Auswanderer - from Bavaria, Bohemia and Bukovina" website, hosted at Google Sites, was created August 11, 2008. On August 6, 2020, Google announced that classic "sites" would change to a" new sites" causing some attachments and features to no longer work. I then had to redo every page, and in the process, took some pages offline.
Names and places I'm researching:
https://sites.google.com/site/auswanderer20/Home/names-places-researching
Family Log Houses in Wisconsin, owners and locations
Top left: Bartholomew and Frances (Sturm) Lehner (E5096 Peak Lane, Section 30, Franklin Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin)
Top right: Andrew and Catherine (Pfeiffer) Ringelstetter (Section 13, Town 9 North, Range 3 East, Franklin Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin)
Bottom: Wenzel and Catherine (Niga) Fastner (Johnson Township, Marathon County, Wisconsin)
DVD of emigrants from the Waldmuenchen, Bavaria, Germany, area
Title: Genealogies of families that immigrated to Sauk County, Wisconsin, from Bavaria, Germany. The collected works of Georg Ederer, Otto Horz, and Hansjörg Schneider.
Authors of the DVD: Debra A. Blau and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Year published: 2011
The DVD contains thousands of digitized pages including the following and much more:
Pedigrees of emigrants originating from the Waldmünchen area - prepared by family researcher Georg Ederer of Waldmuenchen-Waffenschleife
Emigration dissertation by Otto Horz in 1939
Emigration publications by historical researcher Hansjörg Schneider of Waldmuenchen
To see a Table of Contents for the DVD Booklet, click here.
To see a list of surnames and town names that appear on the DVD, see this index created by Gary Haas: click here
For ordering information, go to the Old Franklin Township Historical Society website: http://oldfranklintownshiphistoricalsociety.weebly.com/merchandise.html
The files on the DVD are meant to be used on a computer; it is not a DVD that one can play on a television.
More information about the DVD is here: