Immigrated from Germany at the age of 28.
Destination: New York
Transit and travel compartment: Staying In The Usa [transit]; Cabin Passenger [travel]
Manifest#: 42583
Location of last residence: Magdeburg
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
The single most popular fashion accessory for men and women used to be the hat - practical or decorative!
Etiquette used to dictate that it would be "a disgrace to venture out of the house without a hat and gloves" and it was not unusual at the turn of the 20th century for both men and women to change the...
I've been doing genealogy for too many years now. This is, hands down, THE most difficult and slow software to use for genealogy. Apparently no way to upload a gedcom to save time and effort. I have been trying to manually add a parent of my great grandmother, but this software stupidly adds the parent as a child of a descendant, creating an irrational loop! Not completely user intuitive, and not easy to use. It claims to have found records, but when you click on it to see what it found it instead sends you to the Ancestry.com paywall.