Dear Listmembers:
I have found the address for Jost Liebert Fotostudio in Holzminden--which is
on many of the photos taken of my ancestors in early 1900's. I would like to
contact them via the internet if they have an e-mail address available. Does
anyone have access to the e-mail address for them or know where I might find
it?
Apparently my grandfather, Otto Berger, and his family were involved in the
knitting business and because of the industrial revolution and changes in the
clothing industry because of knitting machines in the USA, Otto Berger made
several trips to NYC and the knitting industry in the US to bring back the
technology to Germany. It was on one such trip he met my grandmother and they were
married here in the USA. This did not go over well back in Germany and
eventually my grandfather was forced by his family to have the marriage annulled
(after my father was born in 1904!)
Although I have learned my father went to Germany as a young man to see his
father, the family refused to allow him to visit. In 1929 my grandfather died
IN THE USA--I have the death certificate which says his body was sent home to
Holzminden.
One day I will visit Germany and want to see where my ancestors lived and
something of their history--other than from a history book!
Thank you for any help and I really enjoy learning from this List and
checking out many of the web sites and books recommended for reading.
Claire A. Berger
USA