Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
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.
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| 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 Spaß) 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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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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