My Greatest Generation

August 29, 2017

“Uncle Fred passed away.” That was the curt message my brother sent to my siblings and me several days after …

Fourwinds Reunion

April 6, 2016

Following the four winds, we came from near and far to a place on a lake shore not far from …

March 25, 2016

William Burger, son of Jacob, was four years old when his father left him, his sister, and mother in Germany …

March 7, 2016

In the spring of 1958 I was in the front 40 on my father’s new Oliver Super 77 plowing the …

March 2, 2016

My G-G-Grandfather Jacob Burger was a watchmaker who wanted to be a landowner and farmer. After establishing an apparently successful …

February 7, 2016

According to the 1860 U.S. census 1.3 million Germans had immigrated to America (principally from the southwestern states of Württemberg, …

February 1, 2016

Jacob was my great-great-grandfather. In 1848, Jacob and his twin brother George left their young families in the Black Forest …