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Oct 2017 The Drum Heritage Tour with Betty Griffin. Group Tour 12 days, 16 people Germany the Palatinate and Switzerland
Sept 2017 Nancy Wagener. Visit Ötisheim, trace Hugenot Arnaud family (prep-work, tour planing and appointments, no guiding)
Sept 2017 Shirley Riemers Personal Tour: The North and the Baltic Coast. From Hamburg to Berlin.
Sept 2017 Landra Hallock. Trace French reformed families Corres in Württemberg (prep-work, no guiding)
Aug 2017 Linda and Marc Leuer. Family from Belgium, Luxemburg, Essen and the Sleeping Beauty castle
May 2017 Anne Wiebolt and the Cuxhaven heritage of the Wiebolt stores. Malte Maas as guide.
May 2017 George Helmkamp. Two exciting days at Bremen, Alfstedt/Bederkesa and the Osnabrück area.
April 2017 Carolee and Mark Weber and friends. Excursion to Lastrup, the Emsland and Cloppenburg. Discoveries in archives and on the road
April 2017 The Schade Family Reuinon. The Ihorst Estate and Cappeln were sites of an international family reunion (D, NL, USA, GB, B, P)
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Oct 2017 Group Tour: The Drum Heritage Tour with Betty Griffin 12 Days, 16 people
It was the second time after 2009 that Betty and Joe Griffin, both members of an active heritage association that ist built around pioneer settlers in Catawaba County NC, brought decendants of the Drumm family to Germany. Some of them relate to a famous palatine traveling musician: George Drumm form Erdesbach, who as an immigrant band leader became the famous composer of the ceremonial march "Hail to the Chief". Others relate to Johann Drumm, sculpture and artist from Ulmet. No wonder that the Drumms from Ulmet arranged a welcome at the church, invited their US cousins to excursions and get togethers and shared hospitality in many ways. One of the Drum families runs a grill in Kusel that is named after the local famous Kaiserslautern soccer team "Red Devils"- "Teufel Grill". The US Drums came as a surprise for them. Other receptions were arranged at the home of Franz Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown 1683, at Europe's oldest Riesling vineyard, in a fabulous hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland and for a farewell at Munichs famous Hofbräuhaus. in 2019 Betty and Joe came back on a private tour.
Aug 2017 Group Tour: The Pomeranian Heritage Tour with Don Zamsow 13 Days, 38 people
The coach log of Werner, retired driver of the Oldenburg police president and now on the wheel for us, lists 1.100 miles on the coach from Bremen airport via the Baltic coast into Poland and to Berlin,150 gallons of diesel, the rivercrossings at Weser, Elbe, Oder and Netze, 90 bottles of still water, 3 of bubble water and 105 bottles of beer. Don Zamsow of the Pommerscher Verein Wausaw WI started this initiative to visit Pomeranian ancestral places and 38 fellow travelers enjoyed a super tour from the ports of farewell to the homelands. As a logistic masterpiece for three days 16 individual taxi excursions were organized starting from Greifswald in Germany and from Mistroy and Pila in Poland. That was doable not only because we could organize enough cars and (English speaking) drivers but mainly because people had identified their families ancestral towns in successful prepwork. Many by using the repositories in the Berlin WI heritage society and archives. A great help was Dr. Beata Lakeberg, colleague of Wolfgang, native Polish and waiting for us at the Mistroy pier as we entered Poland by sea. Unusual genealogical discoveries for some of us at Greifswald: their family names in the student's jail at one of Germany's oldest University.
