re: #78 SanFranciscoZionist

I don’t know if I will ever know much about my German ancestors—in the sparse family records I have, the couple who came over are named ‘Mary and Peter Muller’—yes, I’m sure they will be easy to track down!!

I’ve always thought it was a great example of karmic justice, how much of the ass-kicking administered to Hitler’s Reich came at the hands of German-American farmboys from Kansas, whose grandfathers were lucky enough to make their way to the new world.

My uncle (by marriage) was there and his last name was Zimmerman. He was from western Pennsylvania from a family of miners however, and not a Kansas farm-boy. And a chunk of the family tree on that side was over on this side of the pond by 1750, and I’ve seen grave sites of my direct ancestors from the 1830s in that same area.