I started researching my family history a little bit after my Oma (grandmother) passed away.
I haven’t had much luck at all and I know it’s a long shot considering I’m pretty sure most records from her time got destroyed back then but it’s worth a shot.
My Omas name was Berta Weiss (Alternate spelling: Weiß) she was born on November 22, 1932 in Lambsheim, Germany to Friedrich weiß and Elisabeth Weiß (Born Gimbel).
Berta’s grandfather’s name was Wilhelm, but I’m not sure if it was her grandfather on her mother’s side or her dad’s.
Berta’s father, Friedrich was in the Wehrmacht, He got shot in the face and left for dead by a SS officer for disobeying orders, but survived.
Her mother, Elisabeth was a house wife.
They were protestant.
Their hometown was Frankenthal, the street they lived on ended at the entry gates, and across the street from a plant that Friedrich worked at.
Berta had her first child named Wolfgang Weiß, with Unknown person in Germany. Unknown was abusive to her, and she left him. Later on She met my grandfather, Francis Clifford Chenette (Born July 28, 1929 in New Hampshire) who was in the US Army and stationed in Germany, She waited tables in a restaurant and he couldn’t read German so She translated the menu for him. They married in Germany first but the US didn’t recognize their marriage from Germany so they remarried in the US. They got married on a military base.
Berta and Francis had 2 children together named Michael Steven Chenette born on September 14th, 1961 in Montgomery AL, and Frank Charles Chenette born on February 6, 1967 in Saint Louis, Minnesota.
Friedrich and Elisabeth only visited the states one time to visit berta and her family in Florida around 1976 or 1977.
Friedrich died around 1977 or 1978 from a stroke.
After Friedrich died, Elizabeth went to live with bertas family for a couple of years, but missed Germany so she moved back and died around 1983.
Francis chenette died in 2015, and Berta died in 2018.