This prompt was a little bit harder for me to think of an ancestor to write about. So, I read some of the responses. That brought me to think about my 2x great grandfather, Heinrich Johann Ludwig Kludt.
I’ve
written about him in the past. With the most recent being about Immigration
in February 2024. If I’m remembering my
translation notes correctly, he came from a family of saloonkeepers. This occupation followed him from Mecklenburg
to Wisconsin.
When he
moved to Iowa, his occupation changed to farmer. I talked a little bit more about this being a
family
tradition as far as the United States is concerned in a different blog
posting.
I
believe every move became a new turning point in the lives of my ancestors.
