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New Germanna Record #22 Published: The Broyles Family

February 8, 2022 By Germanna Foundation

The Germanna Foundation has recently published its 22nd book in the Germanna Record series—The Broyles Family: The First Four Generations by genealogist Cathi Clore Frost. This genealogy chronicles the first four generations of descendants of 1717 immigrants John Broyles and his wife Ursula Ruop. This in-depth, thoroughly researched volume updates information available in Keith’s circa […]

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The Peopling of Germanna and Beyond

July 23, 2021 By Germanna Foundation

People have come to Germanna for many reasons. Initially, they came because it was a convenient ford across the Rapidan River, and more recently to connect with the distant past, perhaps where their families fished and farmed, explored, or battled. These people have deep roots far from Germanna, whether they crossed the Bering Straits or […]

Filed Under: Fort Germanna, Genealogy, Germanna Blog, Germany, History, Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, Video

Germanna’s Connection to the Revolutionary War

July 2, 2021 By Germanna Foundation

As America celebrates 245 years of Independence, we hope you take the time to learn more about the history and heritage of those who fought for our independence so many years ago. Descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers span different continents, and that includes many descendants of the Germanna families. Learn more about our Germanna ancestors […]

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Germanna Program for National Genealogical Society Conference

March 10, 2021 By Germanna Foundation

Germanna Foundation Genealogists Cathi Clore Frost and Barbara Price have been invited to present at the National Genealogical Society 2021 Family History Conference. This is the major annual event of the prestigious NGS, founded in 1903 as America’s first genealogical organization and today one of its largest. Their presentation, Identifying the 1714 and 1717 Germanna […]

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Broyles Germanna Record Update

March 10, 2021 By Germanna Foundation

As of February 2021, we are halfway to our goal of raising $25,000 to have the new Broyles genealogy printed. Cathi Clore Frost continues to be optimistic that publication of the volume will take place this year, although pandemic library and archive closures may delay it until after the annual July Reunion. If it cannot […]

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Broyles Work in Progress for Next Germanna Record

October 2, 2020 By Germanna Foundation

Broyles descendants James Albin, our Germanna Chaplain, and Colonel Robert Broyles are spearheading the project that has commissioned genealogist Cathi Clore Frost to write an updated and documented account of the descendants of Germanna immigrants Johannes Broyles and his wife Ursula Ruop. Target publication date for this new Germanna Record is July 2021, to be […]

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Germanna Foundation’s Research and Genealogy Library

April 9, 2020 By Germanna Foundation

Germanna Foundation Membership Development Manager Ashley Abruzzo shows you around the research and genealogy library at the Fort Germanna Visitor Center and takes a look at all the resources we have there. The Visitor Center is currently closed because of the national emergency.

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Germanna Unveils New Edition of Dr. Holtzclaw’s Classic

February 7, 2020 By Germanna Foundation

Germanna Record #5

The Germanna Foundation is proud to present the long-awaited new Special Edition of Dr. Benjamin C. Holtzclaw’s Germanna Record Number Five: Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750. First published in 1964, this volume, carefully researched in Germany by the genealogist Emil Flender of Unna, Westphalia, and Dr. Holtzclaw, has been the […]

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Germanna Reunion celebrates colonists’ deeds, kin

July 29, 2019 By Germanna Foundation

An article about the 2019 Germanna Reunion and Conference was published in the Culpeper Star-Exponent, written by Emily Jennings. See the photo gallery on the article page. ~ Dawn Everman’s father died at age 59, and her mother at 62. “My grandparents died long before that, so I had nobody I could ask questions about […]

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50th Anniversary of the First Germanna Descendant to Explore the Moon

July 20, 2019 By Germanna Foundation

UPDATE: Chart showing Aldrin’s Germanna connections (pdf) 50 years ago today, July 20. 1969, Apollo 11 Astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin made the historic first landing on the Moon. After taking communion, he then descended down the ladder of the lunar module Eagle to become the first Germanna descendant to explore the Moon. Descending from the Fischbach […]

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