Have you ever dreamed of taking THE VACATION to Germany? The Germanna Foundation offers a unique opportunity to experience Germany as only it can. This year the trip takes place June 8-20, 2020. Each year’s trip is custom designed with the traveler in mind, whether you are a Germanna descendant of the First or Second […]
Germany Trips
The Germanna Foundation’s annual trip to Germany is an exceptional experience. The ancestral villages of the participants become the itinerary for each year’s trip. The next trip takes place 17-29 June 2019. One of the tour guides is a Germanna trustee, descendant, and expert on Germanna genealogy and the other is a German native who […]
Announcing Germanna’s Christmas Markets on the Rhine River Cruise, December 2019
Join your Germanna Foundation cousins on a cruise that takes you to 10 cities and 9 Christmas Markets in 4 countries from December 8-15, 2019. By going on this cruise, you help raise funds for the mission and work of the Germanna Foundation. The cruise will ALSO trace a long portion of the river path […]
Germany Trip 2018 Deadline
The time has come for those intending to travel to their ancestral villages in Germany in 2018 to send their deposits to reserve a place. Space is limited, and many have already sent deposits. The itinerary is tentative, and is completed only when tour leaders Barbara Price and E.K. Mello know the roster of travelers and which villages their ancestors emigrated […]
President Trump’s German Genealogy Tree
President Trump declared October 6, 2017 to be German-American Day and mentioned that he had a German grandfather. Here is his genealogy tree showing his German and Scottish ancestors back to the early 1800s: Trump Genealogy (pdf) His German side:
Germanna families referenced in book
We found extracts of references to Germanna families in Lothar Irle’s book, Siegerländer Persönlichkeiten Und Geschlecter-Lexikon: Hrsg. Aus Anlass Der 750-Jahr-Feier Der Stadt Siegen 1974. Siegen: Selbstverlag des Siegerländer Heimatvereins, 1974. “Johann Henrich H., *Anzhausen 27. 8. 1644, 1690 bis 1703 Konrektor und Pastor zu Siegen, [verheiratet] Siegen 3. 12. 1678 Anna Kath., T. v. Bgm. […]
Trustee Jörg Becker, 1955-2016
The Germanna Foundation announces with regret the death of trustee Jörg Becker of Siegen-Eisern, Germany on 25 July following a courageous battle with cancer. Hundreds of Germanna members knew Jörg from having enjoyed the walking tour he led each year of his ancestral village of Eisern on one of the Germany trips, or from his […]
New DAG Officers
The Germanna Foundation is proud to be a charter member of the Deutsch-Amerikanische Gesellschaft (DAG) Siegerland-Wittgenstein e.V., which cultivates mutual understanding and cultural exchange between Germans and Americans. They are famous for hosting an annual Thanksgiving dinner for Americans studying or working in the Siegerland-Wittgenstein area! This week, the new officers were elected. They are, […]
Germanna Archaeologist Dr. Eric Larsen to Speak at German-American Heritage Museum
Please join Museum and Germanna Foundation members, friends, and others for an interesting lecture concerning the history and archaeology of Germanna on Thursday, March 17th, at 6:30pm at the German-American Heritage Museum in Washington, DC. This lecture series is sponsored in part by Germanna Trustee Sven Eric Utsch, and Dr. Larsen’s position is underwritten by a […]
German Script Course Available
The Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, is accepting applications for an intensive course at Moravian College on learning to read German script. Now in its 46th year and the longest-running course of its kind in the country, the course will run from June 1 through June 14, and is being taught by Dr. Paul Peucker, Lanie Yaswinski, […]
