Albert and Mary Pohl Homestead
This is a case of genealogical serendipity. I set out to determine the precise location of the house where my maternal great-grandparents, Albert and Mary Pohl, lived. In this picture taken about 1909, the Pohl family posed in front of their house.1
From something unexpected, I uncovered a trail of bread crumbs that led me to their doorstep.
Footnotes
Adelheid "Ida" (Pohl) Stewart
I recently noticed FamilySearch.org added more Hungarian records. I quickly found a new lead in the search for the birthplace of my grandmother, Adelheid “Ida” (Pohl) Stewart. She immigrated to America in 1893 when she was but 2 years old along with her mother and two older siblings. They departed from Hamburg, Germany, where the ship’s manifest listed them as living in Fünfkirchen, Hungary.
There are two previously unrelated Pohl families in our family tree.
On my paternal side, Nicolas and Catharina Pohl immigrated from the Eifel region of Germany in 1840 and settled in Westphalia, Michigan.
On my maternal side, Albert and Mary Pohl immigrated probably from Austria-Hungary in 1892 and settled near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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