Carolyn’s Blog
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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