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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Which Ancestral Home Would You Like to Visit?


Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!


Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another fun activity for us today. 
Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  Tell us which ancestral home (an actual building, a village, a town, even a country) you would most like to visit.   Which ancestors lived there, and for how long? 

2)  Share your ancestral home information in your own blog post, on Facebook, and leave a link to it in the comments.

Thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic.

The ancestral hometowns I would like to visit is Oberhundem, Kirchhundem, and Altenhundem, which today are very close to each other in the district of Olpe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  



During the German Empire (1871-1918), there were 1296 inhabitants.[1] My great-grandfather, Johan Anton Hork, came to the U.S. in 1870.[2]

Today, the village has 898 residents.[3] Mostly the area is in the mountains and is recognized as a health resort. Many Germans visit the area for skiing, hiking, and other outdoor recreation in nature parks.

Isn't Oberhundem adorable?

Because it is so remote, we will probably need a car to get there. Websites always translate to English when using Chrome, so I am not sure if there will be residents who speak English. I might have to settle with my B1 German. But it would be great fun (viel SpaĂŸ) to walk in the places of my Hork, Trösster, Sommer, Döbener, and Voss ancestors.


[1] Meyers Ort Gazetteer, Meyersgaz.org (https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20368064aa).
[2] "Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com), 5 Nov 1870, SS Idaho, line 39, no. 1030, Joh Hork, citing NARA M237, roll 336.
[3] “Oberhundem,” Wikipedia (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberhundem).

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Comments

  1. I love the old map which shows the three towns on it. They don't look too far apart (unlike my places I want to visit!).

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