Host Del Ritchhart is hosting a special presentation from his upcoming IGGP Conference in June. If interested, please register below.
Description:
Del’s presentation traces the research he conducted to discover information about his wife’s German Great-grandmother’s place of origin in Germany and the identity of her parents. Maria Elizabeth Feiertag had been one of his “brick walls” for almost 20 years. All Del knew about her German connections was that she was from Bavaria, roughly when she came to America and her birth date. Thanks to a lot of information gathered by collaborating with both German and American individuals Del had met through his involvement in the International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP), He was able to identify the specific village from which Maria emigrated, her parent’s names, and home towns, and details about her emigration application and process. The lessons learned from this research can be applied by others in researching their German ancestors and are not unique to his research of Maria.
Del’s Profile:
Instructor Del Ritchhart
Del Ritchhart moved to Windsor from San Diego in late 2018 and joined our society. Del began researching his family history in 1994. He served in leadership positions in several San Diego genealogy organizations; including President, of Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego and Program Director for the San Diego Genealogical Society. He was Chair of The Working Group for soliciting Sponsors, Exhibitors and Advertisers for the June 2019 International German Genealogy Partnership Conference held in Sacramento.
Besides being our instructor, Del was the leader of the German Study Group for the Larimer County Genealogical Society and is Secretary of the Longs Peak Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Del has given over 120 genealogy presentations to numerous groups in the Southern California and Northern Colorado areas in the past nine years. He published, “Breathing Life Into My Family Ancestors” in late 2011 and published his second book “Ordinary People Who Accomplished the Extraordinary—Our Immigrant Ancestors and Their Descendants” in November 2019. He became our Lifetime Volunteer of the Year in 2022.
Email Del at [email protected] to register for his presentation and to obtain his handout and Zoom info.
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