What are the names of my great-great-grandparents (Ziegler)? Saturday, July 11, 2009


In January 2008, this question came up. We knew they were from Germany; we knew they lived in or near Freedom or Center, Wisconsin. My dad had a photo of them (we supposed since my dad could identify his own grandfather as one of the sons).

That's all I had to go on!
A genuine mystery.

My local library, the County of Los Angeles Public Library, had an on-line subscription to Heritage Quest that I could access from home and late at night ... which is when I had free time to search.

"I'll start by looking for U.S. census entries for my great-grandfather, Gottlieb Ziegler, starting in 1930 and back. How hard can it be?"

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