Hunting History - Finding Family

I wasn't even going to blog today.  I've been working on my German side of my tree (Heigert) for foreve, and I'd actually put it down recently to work on the other branches.  My cousin Ruth sent me a message last night saying she was making another trip to Germany, and will be spending three days in the town our side is from, Waldulm, and did I have any new tree information.  Well, I hadn't since I hadn't been working on it, but I have a week off of work and thought it wouldn't hurt to time suck at least one day and spend it updating our Heigert side.  So this morning I went to FamilySearch and typed in "Higert" and Waldulm, Germany.  That's it. So I got 20 pages of records, all pertaining to my family and their town of origin. I kept coming across records for children of  Cäzilia Higert and Benedikt Hausmann.  I don't have them in my tree, but those records kept coming up, so I started a new branch.  This actually works out perfect for last ...

For my third installment of 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks, we're looking at my second great grandmother, Christine Wilhelmine Aschebrok.  This week's prompt is "I'd like to meet."  I maybe should have saved Angela Nardin for this one, even without knowing the prompts ahead of time I knew eventually it would be coming, but I am almost equally enchanted with my Heigert/Brockman side, in fact I'm super proud of my German heritage.  Christine went through a lot (as you'll read) and I bet she was an amazing woman.  It takes a lot of strength to handle what she did in her lifetime and not be hardened by it.  Christine was born to Johann Heinrich Gerhard Aschebrok and Anna Christine Elizabeth Steingeweg Oct 12th, 1849 in Holne, Lengerich, Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, just over 100 miles from Hanover.  She was Christened in the Evangelical Church Oct 26th, 1849. At 22 Christine had a son, Ernst Gerhard Bernhard Aschebrok with an unknown father.  ...