tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74284316051736623182024-03-13T07:10:31.638-05:00Matt's Genealogy Blog You can find my email address on my genealogy link page: <a href="http://www.mattkmiller.com">http://www.mattkmiller.com</a>. Follow me on Instagram @mattsgenealogyblogMatthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.comBlogger249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-47768141295476511942022-04-16T21:16:00.002-05:002022-04-16T21:17:56.081-05:00The Passing of Ken PantherI got word that my oldest cousin, Ken "Doc" Panther passed away this past Thursday. I always knew him as "Kenny". There's over a 20 year age difference between us so we didn't hang out but he was always up for a friendly conversation. Being the first grandchild of Grandma and Grandpa Panther, there were a lot of pictures of him in his early years. His 46th wedding anniversary was on Monday. He Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-50732843232432853932022-02-18T22:37:00.005-06:002022-02-20T12:50:26.046-06:00The Passing of Martha Panther DohmanI got news that my aunt Martha Rose Panther Dohman passed away this afternoon. Sadly, it was not a surprise. We had heard she had taken a turn for the worse in the past few weeks and months and had chosen to go into hospice care. Aunt Martha was a beautiful, kind, fun lady with a huge heart. I'll never forget her laugh. She was my mother's younger sister. Martha Rose Panther was born on February Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-2101329098371001962021-12-15T11:01:00.001-06:002021-12-15T11:37:10.078-06:00Eichstätt Church Records Coming to Matricula OnlineIf you look through my posts about my Dunzinger, Ziegelmüller and Seefried lines, you know that I've been looking forward to the Eichstätt diocese church records to be digitized and put online. The diocese has announced that it's happening! The church records will be posted to Matricula Online between now and March 2022. Their page states:The online publication of the church records of the Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-84685681204783115602021-11-04T14:59:00.005-05:002021-11-04T15:01:33.371-05:00Your Ancestors' Home Town on YouTube - Mösbach, Ortenaukreis, Baden, Germany Videos I did a search for the town my great-grandfather Aloys Panther was born in and emigrated from when he came to America. I was surprised how many videos there are available, given how small the town is. The first I'll list is the official YouTube channel for the town of Achern. On their page, I found a good video about their annual cherry blossom festival:My next favorite video I found is a Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-27325444108275204432021-10-26T22:10:00.001-05:002021-10-26T22:10:39.583-05:00Another Search Angel Success StoryWow! It's been a long time since I last posted. My excuses are many. Too busy. No new research happening. No new discoveries. No new tools that excite me. Most of all, no ideas or inspiration for new posts. Finally, today, I received an incredible email. I have to share the story.Back in June of 2020, a man in his early 70s posted on the DNA Detectives Facebook group asking for help in finding Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-28976551330135517812021-06-02T08:23:00.002-05:002021-06-02T08:23:31.097-05:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - #42 Linda Stufflebean over at Empty Branches on the Family Tree followed Genea Musings Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Prompt. I'll join in. The prompt is "Who is #42 on your ahnentafel list?". If you're not sure, your genealogy program should tell you. In RootsMagic, highlight yourself, then go to Reports, Lists and select Ahnentafel. That list will list your ancestors in an ahnentafel format, Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-64721464174977333602021-05-07T22:52:00.005-05:002021-05-08T06:59:35.826-05:00An Illegal OperationFirst, a word of warning. If you cannot stand reading about controversial topics, unpleasant events, tragedy and death, I'll ask that you stop reading now. This post is about the death of my grandmother's sister. I knew she died young and I had heard rumors about the cause. Someone recently posted newspaper articles about the trial that followed, which confirms what I had heard was the truth. Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-4460362517901849572021-04-15T16:36:00.004-05:002021-04-25T21:44:18.097-05:00Time For BaseballIt seemed as if spring would never get here this year. Finally, the weather is warm enough to enjoy some time outside and the trees and grass is starting to sprout new green growth. It's my favorite time of the year. Along with spring comes baseball. I've never been athletic but if there was one sport I would have played, had I had the skills and coaching, it would have been baseball. Based on Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-51736119516637565182021-03-07T08:14:00.003-06:002021-03-08T07:42:01.324-06:00Court Cases in Google Books I was doing some searches in Google Books to see if I could find any that contained mentions of my ancestors. With a surname like Panther, you find a lot of books that mention encounters with a member of the large cat family. So I searched for the name of my great-grandfather, Aloys Panther in quotes. I didn't find anything so I did a search for his brother's name, Ferdinand Panther in Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-41409234394934078592021-02-15T09:55:00.002-06:002021-02-16T09:16:29.597-06:00More Information About My Seefried Ancestry A few months ago, I posted about the undocumented Seefried ancestry I had discovered. When I made this discovery, I emailed a couple of people that posted this information to see if they had any documentation or more information. One person responded that he didn't have documentation. He had gotten the information from a second cousin of his. He said he'd contact this cousin to see what he Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-66114003134623336382021-02-01T07:17:00.003-06:002021-02-21T17:45:26.801-06:00A Cousin on Groucho Marx - You Bet Your LifeI had heard that my third cousin once removed, Louis Menke, was on Groucho Marx's show You Bet Your Life several decades ago. That's all I had heard about it. Nothing about what it was about. I just figured it was a game show and that's as far as it went. Then someone posted on the West Point, Iowa Facebook page a newspaper article written around the time of the show. It is quite entertaining in Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-26189520903784531642021-01-13T17:26:00.002-06:002021-01-19T14:46:31.321-06:00The Will of Leonard ZiegelmüllerIn posts found here and here, I discussed discovering the name of the mother of my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Dunzinger Panther. It ends up the surname had been in front of us for a decade or more but we had no idea that it was her last name. My second cousin has provided me with an additional piece of evidence that, had we known to look for it earlier, could have cut decades off of this searchMatthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-59583587477391513102021-01-06T22:17:00.001-06:002021-01-08T16:56:46.209-06:00Reasons for Aloys Panther's Move to America My great-grandfather, Aloys Panther, and his wife Monica Hanle Panther, along with their oldest son, came to America from Baden in 1872. Why? I had speculated that the end of the Austro-Prussian War, the death of his brother and the death of two of his sons may have convinced him to try a for a new start in a new land. I believe his brother may have paid a return visit to his home town to Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-24354329998543172722020-12-16T22:00:00.002-06:002020-12-17T06:56:36.297-06:00European Church Records at Matricula OnlineThere is a web site that contains images of church book images across mainland Europe, mostly in Germany and Austria but also including Poland, Netherlands, Hungary, Bosia-Herzegovena, and Luxumburg. The number of parishes included is amazing. The current count of churches included is nearly 6,000. This site is known as Matricula Online. It can be found at https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/ . Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-53369383652124115602020-12-01T07:26:00.002-06:002020-12-10T21:14:36.805-06:00Missouri Death Certificates 1909-1969The Missouri Secretary of State web site has a searchable database of images of death certificates for the state of Missouri from 1910 -1969. It can be found at https://s1.sos.mo.gov/Records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ . If you have anyone in your family tree that died in the State of Missouri between these years, I encourage you to search the database. Over a period of a few days, I searched my Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-47949561416038054552020-11-21T21:17:00.005-06:002020-11-24T17:34:49.742-06:00Undocumented Family Trees - Seefried Ancestors In this post from August 2019, I talked about the transcription of the marriage record I found for my 2x-great-grandparents, Andreas Dunzinger and Anna Ziegelmuller. A few months later, I was able to obtain an image of the church book record. You can see that the transcription was an accurate representation of what was written in the record. It lists Anna's surname as Ziegelmilch and her Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-89787579405923966572020-11-08T12:07:00.003-06:002020-11-08T12:12:15.040-06:00Newspaper Account of an Orphan TrainAfter learning about my grandfather's first cousin, Christian Müller, being sent to Nebraska on board an "orphan train" of the Children's Aid Society in 1902, I've been trying to learn more about it. I have so far found just one article in the "Red Cloud Chief" newspaper of Red Cloud, Nebraska. I found the articles below on the University of Nebraska website "Nebraska Newspapers". Here is the Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-22445922561501153062020-10-15T09:50:00.004-05:002021-02-05T07:44:55.674-06:00Grimmelshausen and Christman Brandstetter Not long before finishing my ancestry research in the area around Ortenaukreis, Baden, Germany, I exchanged emails with a person who lived in the area. I provided a family tree to him and he commented that without doubt, my 8x-great-grandfather knew Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. At that time, I know I recognized the name Grimmelshausen and I know I saw the death record for Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-48539642162958762862020-09-05T08:28:00.002-05:002020-09-05T08:40:44.290-05:00Relative Soldiers Who Died Fighting for the Other Side in WarI'm sure most genealogists know their family members who served in the US Military and especially those who died in battle. Let's expand our search a bit. Do you know of any of your relatives who died on the other side of the front line? Relatives who actually fought against America and its allies? When I was working on my Panther family history book, my brother called saying his son, my nephew, Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-65205759611736673672020-08-14T16:35:00.001-05:002020-08-14T16:39:58.669-05:00Historical Markers - The Villasur ExpeditionToday, August 14, 2020, is the 300 year anniversary of the massacre of the Spanish Villasur expedition, which occurred in the area of my hometown, Columbus, Nebraska. This is not something I recall learning about in any class in any grade in school. I know I don't have relatives associated with this event but I'm confident some people in town do. I know it's easy to ignore the historical markers Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-82001731467248198692020-08-12T09:06:00.003-05:002020-08-12T09:06:26.731-05:00Free Access to MyHeritage Photo Enhancer and In Color I received an email today letting me know that My Heritage is providing free access for everyone, even non-subscribers, to their Photo Enhancer and In Color tools through September 10, 2020. If you don't have a MyHeritage subscription, you'll definitely want to take advantage of this offer! I know I'll be giving the photo enhancer a try and I'll be colorizing some photos I missed the last Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-25122181404483556772020-07-27T12:46:00.002-05:002020-07-27T12:47:11.018-05:00Free iPhone Scanning AppI know I've heard about scanning apps for mobile devices before but I always preferred to use a full sized flatbed scanner for when I need to scan something in to save for genealogy sources. The problem is that there are times when I didn't anticipate needing my scanner so I didn't bring it and my only option is to take a photograph of the document or photo or miss saving it completely. Overall, Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-57640835965617094302020-07-21T15:11:00.001-05:002020-07-22T07:52:00.494-05:00A Hack and a Data Leak in Two Major Genealogy Web Sites - Updated July 22, 2020If you use Family Tree Maker, currently owned by MacKiev and use it to sync your genealogy database to and from Ancestry's servers, change your password immediately! The headline reads like the main Ancestry.com web site was hacked but according to information security website HackRead.com, it was a a misconfigured server that held a "database [which] contained around 25GB worth of data belongingMatthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-81710615684678017622020-06-30T07:12:00.002-05:002020-07-21T15:23:57.358-05:00"Long Lost Cousin" Takes a DNA TestI knew I had some first cousins who are children of the brother of my father. I've known their names for decades. I had never met them or if I ever did, it would have been at my grandfather's funeral when I was about 9 years old and I don't remember. Then, once I grew up and started working on my genealogy, I knew they lived somewhere in California. They had relatively common first names and Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428431605173662318.post-53844141785671037862020-06-17T16:56:00.003-05:002020-06-18T21:43:21.343-05:00Solving Crimes Using Genealogy and DNAI'm sure everyone has heard of the new technique of solving crimes using DNA and genealogy. I thought I'd review the television shows out there that deal directly with this process of solving cold cases, along with how it touches our lives.The first case that gained publicity for being solved using genetic genealogy was the Golden State Killer case. In this case, the perpetrator committed at Matthew Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17470236018203715367noreply@blogger.com0