The story of two immigrant families: the six Romberg brothers and sisters who came to Wisconsin from the Duchy of Braunschweig in northwestern Germany in the 1850s and 1860s, and the eight children of Ludwig and Wilhelmine Patzlaff who came with their parents to Wisconsin in the early 1870s from the northeastern German province of Pomerania on the Baltic Sea. It has been assembled from recollections of family members, family pictures and records, books, and church, cemetery, and government records. Lists all known descendants of the original pioneer ancestors.  Appendix of old documents, fully annotated, every-name index.

"Possibly the best family history ever written." — Journal of German-American Studies

Hardcover: 804 pages

Year: 1999