By James M. Beidler Just as “time and place” are a set of cross-hairs that determine what records exist for a particular era and locality during the life of a particular ancestor, there are a fair number of ... Read More...

By Julian Mattocks • Photographs Courtesy Julian Mattocks One black-and-white sketch in particular captivates my attention as I fascinatedly look through the drawings. Its focal point—a single tree in full b... Read More...

“We have to remember the past so the bad things will not be repeated, but it is also a mistake to live in the past.” Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder By Robert A. Selig A century ago, on 28 June 1919, the fif... Read More...

Slip back into the 19th century when many Germans migrated to the U.S. By Don Heimburger Photographs Courtesy Don Heimburger There’s a place in Wisconsin where German history in America comes alive in a ... Read More...

By James M. Beidler The phrase “the devil is in the details” has no better proof than when one tries to map the changing boundaries associated with the lands of the German-speaking people through the centuri... Read More...

For 25 years, we at German Life have been hearing stories—via telephone, handwritten letter and email. Inevitably they stem from a story about a town in Germany that we may have just featured or a recipe that b... Read More...

In 2019, Germany honors its 19th century master of realism. By Jackie Guigui-Stolberg   We German-Americans today can so easily forget how different the Germany of our grandparents, great-grandpar... Read More...