I know quite a bit about my father's mother's English family. I have traced it back almost two thousand years with the help of computerized records, and family hard copy records which go back approximately three hundred years.
I now want to fill in my mother's half of my pedigree. I only know names going back to my great-grandparents side on this half of my family. Here are the basic facts:
1) So far as my mother knows, all branches have German names
(the surnames that I know of are Krause, Schultz, Schwantes, and Matter)
2) All branches were central Wisconsin dairy farmers after coming from Germany
3) Presumably all branches came straight to Wisconsin, from Germany, in the mid-19th century
Does anyone know if these surnames, the occupation of dairy farming, and the mid-19th century migration to the midwestern U.S. are indicative of origin from any specific part(s) of Germany and/or any other interesting information?
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