Carolyn Schott
Guest blogger Laura Schott is a recent college graduate who took her first-ever trip to Europe to visit her ancestral…
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My 1999 visit to Gräfenhausen (origin of my Billigmeier family) epitomizes what not to do when visiting an ancestral town.…
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There was joy. There was singing and dancing and borscht. There was violence and death. Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution was a…
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Sometimes it’s the little things in life that are the most dangerous. I survived petting a lion in Zambia and…
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There are several theories for the origin of the name Schott. The one described by Johann Schott von Schottenborn in…
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I am an idiot. In the space of about 18 hours, I participated in two demonstrations (one in pouring rain),…
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“I’m dying.” –Tweet from a 21-year-old volunteer medic, Olesya Zhukovskaya, February 20, 2014. This update was the first thing I…
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The town of Osthofen, Germany, was the home of the Schott family from at least1717 to 1809. It is over…
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After 20 years of doing genealogy, I thought it was about time I got myself to RootsTech, an enormous annual…
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The town of Schotten is said to be the place of origin of both the Schott family and the Schott…
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