I am pleased to introduce a new guest blogger to My Search for the Past. Last week I mentioned how Dr. Ingemar Nåsell, a Swede, found me through my blog. I had no idea that I had cousins in Sweden as the only family I knew of there was my granduncle, Kurt Lindner, who had…
Tag: Anna Maria Kessler
Oskar Paul Kessler – This Is Why I Blog – 52 Ancestors 2015 #16
Our theme this week is “Live Long.” Trying the obvious approach, I combed through my family tree and did not find any centenarians in my direct line. When I investigated a few that were related by marriage, I was unsure whether the dates of death were accurate. One fellow supposedly lived to be 118. I…
Remembering Marie Lindner – Victim of the Allied Attack on Dresden
Seventy years ago tonight, Anna Marie Kessler Lindner, my great-grandmother, died when the Allied forces firebombed Dresden. The destruction was beyond comprehension. I wrote about her in my blog this time last year. Ruhe sanft, Marie. Read more here: http://wp.me/p4ioO6-x
Unknown Kessler 2x Great-Grandfather – Name Found! – 52 Ancestors #45
Entry #45 I was so surprised to learn that Ancestry.com had made available a collection of birth and marriage records from Saxony, Germany. I was under the impression that most records in Dresden were destroyed. My great-grandmother, Anna Maria Kessler Linder, was killed during the fire-bombing of Dresden and I blogged about her in week…