This collection of website links pertains primarily to my German ancestors who emigrated to America and the places they lived. Updated 16 March 2021. Castle Garden Links Castle Garden: America’s First Immigration […]
Lillian Schletter in the 1940 Census
On April 1, 1940 Lillian SCHLETTER, my Grand Aunt, was a 51 year old single white female institutionalized at Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens Village in New York City. She also lived […]
Camillo Ferdinand Schletter
Camillo, “Carl,” was the brother of my great grandfather Edmund Schletter. Sadly, he committed suicide on 1911. I found numerous newspaper articles related to his passing and his story was picked up […]
1940 US Census – EVERS and SCHWARZ (Schletter and Ritter)
29 Clover Ave, Floral Park, NY 11001 Peter EVERS (55) reported to the Census Enumerator that on April 1, 1940 he owned his house located in the incorporated place of Floral Park […]
Broadhurst Sisters in Hemstead Long Island with Elsie Schletter
So who is that lady on the right, does anyone recognize her? Elsie (l) is my maternal Grandmother and Elizabeth (c) my paternal. The lady on the right is only known as […]
Lillian Had a Knife – A One Way Trip To a Psychiatric Hospital
While researching your family tree have you found any “forgotten” relatives tucked away in insane asylums? I found one. My maternal Great Aunt, Lillian Schletter. According to family lore, Lillian “went after her brother […]
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