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Dear Lynn, My Grandmother was Eliz. Sachs, father John Sachs, mother Margaret Beck, so that is Grt. Grandparents. Grt. Grt. Grandparents were John Sachs also, and Elizabeth Lich from Germany, and thats where it ends. Sachs is an uncommon name, from Germany,from the 11th Century, Provence of Saxony, which is now West Germany. Nowwwwwwwwwwwwwww that we have that out of the way. My Grt. Grandfather came to the United States approx. 1880 and also my Grt.Grandmother approx. 1881. There is no link as yet to anything in Germany because I have no clue to where in Germany other than a family tale of Darmstadt in the Hesse area. How I found out all this, is by going to the Archives of the City of New York and getting copies of there death certificates. If I had not done this I won't ever know who my Grt.Grt. Grandparents were. I haven't had any luck with ships lists yet, trying to find there port of exit from Germany, but if I were you I'd start with copies of the death certificates and work back. I'm sure there are state archives were they came from and then there is the cemeteries, which is what I did. Once you have a copy of the death record, it will list the cemetery on it. I went to the graves and photographed the grave site, and that sounds crazy, but its a record that doesn't go away. Then speak to the cemetery and ask who else is in the grave and when they were buried, and get copies of those records. Its a place to start.
My family came from Germany and went to Brooklyn, New York. They never moved from Brooklyn and were buried there. The sisters and Brother of my Grandmother and the Grt. Grandparents never moved either, as a matter of fact they lived on the same Street in Brooklyn, so that made it easy.
Hang in there, and e-mail direct at sissyl@earthlink.net. Your a Sachs and we all have to stay linked, who know we may be family.
Best Regards,
Sissy
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