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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticDirksen, Theresa
Title, AnalyticThe Long Journey to Gross Dohren
Journal TitleGermanic Genealogy Journal
Date of PublicationSummer 2006
Volume ID9
Issue ID2
Location in Work16-18, ill.
Language or Document TypeEnglish
ISSN1548-3150
AbstractRecounts the author's search for the name of an ancestral village. "Barney (Bernhard Lucas) Dirksen arrived in Baltimore in November 1859 on the ship "Ernestine" from Bremen. . . . [H]e was accompanied by his father, brother, and sister. . . . My attempts at researching Barney's brother, sister and father had turned up little information about them and nothing about the emigrants' ancestral village." After researching the family of Dirksen's wife, Christine Josephine Kleine, the author discovered the Kleines came from Herzlake, and later was able to learn that the Dirksens came from nearby village of Gross Dohren, all in the Emsland region of Hannover.
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsGenealogy/ Family history/ Dirksen/ Klein/ Hannover (Germany)/ Emsland/ Herzlake/ Gross Dohren