Genealogy Jottings

This week I attended the monthly meeting of the relatively new Germanic Genealogy Society of Colorado (GGSC). This group organized itself about a year and a half ago and meets at the Denver Public Library. Many members also belong to the local chapter of Palatines to America. For many years, since the World Wars, people have done their German research almost covertly, but not any more. As memories of World War II fade, people with German ancestry feel more comfortable publicizing their heritage and are organizing into clubs like Denver’s GGSC. At our house, Tony is half German so we have a lot of German research we could do. A club like the GGSC is a good resource for me as we begin researching his German forebears. And I have a rumor of a German ancestor, too–the elusive Catherine who gave birth to my great-grandmother, Anna Petronella Sherman, was said to have been from Germany.

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