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Frank Hess Sr. Immigration Records and a new photo

January 29, 2013 by John 2 Comments

On New Year’s Day, I was out searching the internet for genealogy information and came across a link to obtain  the immigration file for a German immigrant ancestor who had registered starting in 1940.  With this new resource, I hoped to find more information on my grandfather Frank Hess Sr.  So I sent off my $20 and the information I had on him and 5 days later I received a letter from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.  They had identified his file, but they no longer had it.  It was at the National Archives in Kansas City.  They then proceeded to tell me how to obtain a copy of the file.  I sent off another email and after another $20 fee and a wait of another week, I received the six pages of the file including this picture taken in 1942 of Frank Hess.

Hess Frank Sr 1942 INS Photo

I have posted the rest of the file in the Family Tree in an Album attached to Frank Hess Sr.

A couple of things I learned from this new record is that he immigrated in 1910 as a crew member on the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II.  He entered the US at Hoboken, NJ.  He could not recall the exact date he entered the country except that it was in 1910.

I knew he served in the German Army before he arrived, because we have a picture of him in his uniform, but I did not know it was from 1904 to 1906.  That is another clue that we might be able to use to find more information about him.

Here is a postcard and a picture of the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II.

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A conversation with my Mom

January 26, 2013 by John Leave a Comment

The other day I was visiting with my mother and she had just gotten off a phone call from her friend Frieda Mueller.  As we were talking she said she loved it when Frieda would tell stories from when she was young in prewar Germany.  We then discussed how important it is to capture those stories.  Mom said I hope she has them written down, and I responded yeah, but they are probably in German.  Mom then started telling me her own story that she was reminded of by talking with Frieda.

“When I was a little girl, probably around eight, I was in the garden weeding with my grandmother (Elizabeth Maria Moehring whose parents both came from Germany, and German was spoken in their home).  As we  were weeding, a garter snake came my me and I screamed.  My grandmother reassured me ” Don’t worry about him, he is more afraid of you than you are of him.”  I remember this like it was just yesterday.”

I don’t think I had ever heard that story before, and if I didn’t share it here, it would probably be lost forever.

Do you have similar stories that are a part of you that would be good to share that haven’t been written down somewhere?  What are you going to do about it?

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