It’s far from pay dirt… or gold… In fact, it’s more akin to uncorroborated testimony by a dodgy witness in a murder trial.
But it’s so much better than the nothing I’ve been coming up with.
What is this incredible, untested, fascinating, yet probably bogus piece of ancestry trivia, you ask?
Continue reading “Finally, a lead”
When I was in the 10th Grade, I had to write a research paper for history. We were given a list of Civil War topics from which to choose.
Sadly, Irvin is not my long lost 3rd-Great-Uncle or even my 1st-Cousin-4x-Removed. He was just a very unskilled Union general1.
Continue reading “Delusions of Grandeur”I was digging around the internet for ancestry records when I found these: prisoner of war records for Kevin’s maternal grandfather, John Frederick Flatau, a.k.a. Opa.
You might notice they are all in French.
Google Translate and I have become friends. Really good friends!
And what Google couldn’t translate, I turned over to international friends (Thanks, Deniz!), and friends of those friends, for assistance. Finally, I have enough to piece together a snapshot into John’s last months serving in the First World War. Continue reading “Prisoner of War No. 44095”
