I went to the mailbox January 12th and to my
surprise I found the following letter from Germany.
Laurence Gee
263 Edgemont Drive,
Utah, 84054
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
A genealogical request
Dear Mr. Gee,
E-Mail: kai.laUlenschlaeger@me.com
Dresden, den 6. Dezember 2016
we do not know each other, but I stumbled upon your
name and address when researching
genealogical facts on my own family. It said online,
that you wrote or owned a paper by the title of "Die Nachkommen des Johan
Altgelt Statschoeffen zu Siegcn, Axtel Altgelt, Buenos Aires, Argentina"
about the descendants of Philip Altgelt from Siegen, Germany.
Since I did not find any other information about that
paper online, I decided to
just write to you, asking, whether this
information was right. And if so, it would be most interesting to me, knowing,
if there is any way to acquire that paper for my studies. One branch of my
family derives from the marriage of Adam Altgelt with Laura Tornquist, who went
to Argentinia. The Altgelt-Family in Germany I am able to trace back until
Henne Altgelt from Siegen, Germany, who was born 1404. But it is the stories
and little side details,
that I love more than the bare facts. I hoped to find
some of those in the named paper.
Is there any information, you can give me on this. I
would greatly appreciate it and thank you in advance.
Witll best regards and
freundlichen Grullen,
Kai Lautenschlager
O course I had not hesitation in sending him and
e-mail on the 12 January 2017.
Lieber Herr Doktor
Lautenschäger,
Ich habe von Ihnen ein brief
Heute bekommen. Ich werde zwei Anhänger zu diese email zuknopfen. Leider
ein Teil in English, Deutsch und Spanish.
Bitte mein schlechtes Deutsch
verzheihen. Ich habe nicht in eine lange Zeit mich in dieser Sprache
geschrieben. Ihr English is ganz gut.
Ich habe viel mehr
Information. Höffenlich werden wir uns noch mehr ins Verbindung in
der Zukunft setzen.
Viel Glück im kommenden Jahr.
I can read German and
English. I spent 5 1/2 years in Germany. The last three years
1997-2000 in the Frankfurt area and have been to Dresden. Our son and his
family are at present in Heidelberg. He is doing research there.
I think I even had a photo of a Tornquist
Sincerely,
Attached to this e-mail I gave him my PDF file of the
Nachkommen Johannes Altgelt that I posted on Johannes’ record in Family Tree
and then 23 pages of the Descendancy of George Tournquist.
He promptly responded.
Dear Dr. Gee,
I was delighted to find your email in my inbox today. Thank you very much for
the documents you sent along with it. I will take my time to study them
intensively and find out about the connections of both our family trees. At
first glance it seems that N° 5Fiii in your list of descendants (Adelaida
Casilda Emelina Tornquist) is the meeting point of our family trees and I do
have a lot of information on her descendants which are not listed in your documents.
She indeed is my Great great great grandmother and was already known to my own
grandmother, who is doing research in the 1960s adn 1980s. At the moment I am
trying to use the Internet to get more reliable sources and copies of documents
to retrospectively find out about the reliability of this information and you
can be sure, that I will share that information with you, in case you are
interested. I will try to use the next weeks to put together a document of this
part of my family tree with the sources I already have and send it to
you.
Just as a little appetiser I can tell you that the granddaughter of the above
Adelaida went back to Germany and married a man from Hamburg, with whom she had
my great grandmother. And the Diehl-Family mingled again with this branch
of the tree.
With best regards and freundlichen
Grüßen
I wrote back and sent him 4 more documents in my
possession on the Altgelt family and gave him the connection of my family to
the Altgelts in America. (If you want the connection just let me know.)
I ask him what kind of a doctor he was and sent him more information on the Altgelts
from my file.
He responded.
I am a physician for psychosomatic medicine and run my
practice here in Dresden since 2009. Mainly I am working with behavioral
psychotherapy and I am still loving, what I am doing. Seeing that you lived in
Montana, it might be interesting, that in 1988/1989 I was an exchange student
in Billings, MT with a very dear family. That stay taught me very much and
still today I think back quite often. I even utilize it by being able to
administer psychotherapy in English language for foreigners here in Dresden.
Attached you will find the link to a booklet (PDF) of the
information that I have on the ancestry and descendancy of ADELAIDA Casida
Emelina Tornquist so far. It is the status quo of today and lacks some
corrections and additions. But rather than work on it obsessively and never
finishing it, I send you this version for your information and enjoyment.
Whenever I do find more details, I will certainly let you know. And of course I
am highly interested in tips, corrections or critical questions you may have as
well as additional information that is still lacking in the booklet.
The PDF is 18MB, so I decided to just send a link to my
dropbox:
This file printed out 166 pages of genealogy. It was interesting to note that a number of
the individuals had Family Tree Ids. I
wonder if he is a member of the church?
Now I have to enter the data into my Ancestral Quest
Altgelt file.
