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Hello all! Thank you so, so much for such a great website, forum, and group! I am pleased to have found a community that focuses on Germany ancestry!
So, here is my conundrum. My bio dad was estranged since I was 7. He passed in 2012, unfortunately, so we were never able to rekindle any kind of relationship. I have just reconnected with his brothers, but we don’t speak very often as it is. Anyway, I began my genealogical journey for my maternal grandmother, but naturally (I feel) I drifted off to the side of the family I never knew: my paternal side. To my ecstatic surprise, my paternal grandmother was 2nd generation American. Through Ancestry and FamilySearch, I have been able to track her grandparents back to Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Through federal census records, I have found a few conflicting immigration dates, but dates nonetheless, for two (maybe three, I’ll have to check my records again real quick) of the four ggp’s that immigrated from Germany. Beyond that, I don’t have places where they were born and there were a ton of Maria Mueller’s that immigrated around 1885. Lol. I don’t know which ports they came in from, which ports they left, anything.
That being said, would anyone have any tried-and-true websites I can try to use to find their immigrations records? My husband and I are planning a once-in-a-lifetime, 15th wedding anniversary trot across Europe and I would love to visit the land of my ancestors while we’re there!
Thank you all so, so much!
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