It has been about 3 years since I last posted. While I did have the very best of intentions and grandest hopes when starting this blog, well... life simply got in the way. Nothing dramatic, just life: family, the kids, the dogs, the day job (and the night job), renovating a house... my Genealogy research just took a back seat.
Alas, I have not given up, so here I am once again. In my mind, there is dramatic background music.
Within this time, I have gotten in touch with a distant cousin on my dad's side (Oeberdick), and he is quite certain that the Oeberdick side of the family is from Germany. What few paperwork I can find on them lists "Prussia" as their country of origin (in addition to Yugoslavia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia depending on which document you're looking at) which is about an vague as you can get for the mid-late 1800's. But, Germany? Nowhere in my on family's drunken stories were we ever German. In fact, I grew up in a predominantly Pennsylvania Dutch area of eastern PA, and always stuck out like a sore thumb because I was so not German.
Initially, in my first post here, I made a joke about at the very least not finding any Nazis in my family tree... sigh.
Alas, I have not given up, so here I am once again. In my mind, there is dramatic background music.
Within this time, I have gotten in touch with a distant cousin on my dad's side (Oeberdick), and he is quite certain that the Oeberdick side of the family is from Germany. What few paperwork I can find on them lists "Prussia" as their country of origin (in addition to Yugoslavia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia depending on which document you're looking at) which is about an vague as you can get for the mid-late 1800's. But, Germany? Nowhere in my on family's drunken stories were we ever German. In fact, I grew up in a predominantly Pennsylvania Dutch area of eastern PA, and always stuck out like a sore thumb because I was so not German.
Initially, in my first post here, I made a joke about at the very least not finding any Nazis in my family tree... sigh.
