10 AM (Pacific Time) on Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 Hybrid- Zoom or in person at Williamson Hall. (you are encouraged to come in person).
Join our GERMAN Interest Group meeting: The Bend Genealogical Society’s German Interest Group is restarting. The focus of the group is researching German ancestors both in Europe and the United States. This group welcomes anyone with an interest in Germanic Ancestors. The group has a wide area of Germanic ancestors that include the current German borders, Swiss, Bohemian, Moravian, Austrian, Polish, Hungarian and Russian ancestors.
Three meetings for this group are: Feb 19th, Mar 19th, and Apr 8th. The group will be led by BGS member Jim Kleinschmidt.
The first meeting topic is Emigration and Settlement of Germanic Immigrants and will focus on the emigration and settlement of Germanic Immigrants of German Interest Group participants. Be prepared to share information you have on where your Germanic ancestors lived prior to emigration, their path of emigration in Europe and then in North America and where they first settled. This meeting follows the February 11 th regular meeting that focuses on Immigration Ports in the United States.
About Jim Kleinschmidt: Jim has been doing research on his German ancestors since the early 1990s following in his father’s footsteps. His ancestral roots include Bohemia, Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate and the Neumark of Brandenburg (now in Poland). He has visited ancestral villages in both Bohemia and Bavaria and met some of his European cousins during these visits.
If you are interested in helping or have suggestions for the Group, please go to Contact Us, enter a message in the form, and it will be forwarded to Jim.
Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.