Teri’s Family History Research

I was recently doing research on the Ancestry website because I added my family tree to the website. Imagine my surprise when I found Wilhelm Schluntz listed right above Sophie Westphal on the passenger list! Sophia age 30 and Wihlem age 24. They married June 4, 1867. November 6, 1966 Sophie and Wilhelm arrived together in [...]

I received an amazing email from Lisa Louise Cooke regarding my Matzdorf ancestors. She got information from Baerbel Johnson on my Matzdorf family. Sophia and her children left from Hamburg, Germany on 18 November 1874. There last place of residence is listed as “Stralsund.” Stralsund is a large city in Western Pommerania with [...]

Sophia, Carl (Charles), Augusta, Sigismund (Siegmund), Edward, and Annie Matzdorff all came over on the Holsatia 3 Dec 1874 to join husband and father, Carl, who had preceeded them to the US.

The Matzdorff family, including mother, Sophia, and son, Sigismund, came over on the Holsatia. This ship was part of the shipping line of Hamburg-American built by Caird & Co,  Greenock, Scotland. It had an iron hull. According to the New York Passenger Lists, they were “between deck passengers.”

I was able to find Sophia and Sigismund Matzdorff entering the the country in New York on Decembre 3, 1874. Port of Departure Hamburg, Germany and Le Havre, France on ship named Holsatia.

Hello World!

I believe I will use this blog to record my reseach. Hopefully I can remember what I have done then and not repeat the same efforts. Currently I am working hard on getting all of my information in a new genealogy program after having used Brother’s Keeper for a couple of decades. I have [...]