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Everyone 1955

Front row from left to right: Conard, Maeanna, Bernard, Johnny, Suzanne, Ted, Danny, Mardi, Mickey, Roberta, Constance Second row, from left to right:  Don, Joan, Alice with Billy, Frieda with Marcia, John B., Elva, Martha with Melanie, Dorothea with David, … Continue reading

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Documents from 1766, 1768, and 1788 deciphered

See gerigpictures Uncle Jim and Aunt Ida shared more from their 2004 trip to Montbeliard, France.

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Siblings visiting Chicago in the late 1980’s

Hover over the photos for names, please.

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A hearty hello! from Jim and Ida Goering| Mossi Gerig’s baptism record +

April 3 A hearty hello! In “The Hopefield cemetery“, the next to last paragraph, the earliest known Goering ancestor is given as Moses Goering. The spelling should be “Gerig” [editor: correction made, thank you!] as it appears in the 1791 passport in Montbeliard, … Continue reading

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One fine summer day in 1945….

Another picture that has everyone identified.  This the time we were able to drive being able to buy tires after the war.  I ended up driving home to Canton from Missouri at night arriving home at sunrise. I went straight … Continue reading

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*^&@#!

From Jim Jim shared a story with Dorothea about a time he was visiting when Herb and Dot lived on H. J. Dyck’s farm. Jim remembers it as a Sunday morning and the hogs had gotten out. Jim was helping … Continue reading

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Siblings and spouses at Aunt Elva’s 90th birthday party

2003 Back row left to right:  Rosie, Art, Dot, Herb, Rosie, Harry, Hildred, Larry, Tony, John Seated row left to right: Walter, Frieda, Elva, Martha, Joan, Delores Front row left to right (and congratulations to the limber ones!): Jim, Ida, … Continue reading

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Guardian Angel stories

originally published in the Goering Gazette July, 1989 Herb remembers a breakfast of wheat cereal. Somehow in the passing of the bowl from his hands to someone else the bowl slipped and landed right on John’s head and arms. He … Continue reading

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