Monthly Archives: July 2017

Breisach is the birth town of my great-grandfather Siegfried Geismar and our Geismar ancestors, as well as Sigfried’s mother Marie Günzburger’s family. The familes were two of the five founding Jewish families of Breisach in the 1600s. One of the only reminders of the former Jewish community is The Blue House (Blau Hause) which, untilContinueContinue reading “Breisach – hometown of Geismar and Günzburger (founding Jewish families).”

I had been looking forward to visiting the State Archives in Karlsruhe to research my Grandfather’s family about whom we know very little but we got into a 4 hour traffic jam and when we finally got there, all the people who could have helped with research had left for the day.   We drove aContinueContinue reading “Karlsruhe – Hometown of the Reutlinger family.”