Two Families: One Farm, One Name
Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under Family history | Leave a Comment
Several years ago, my niece, Morgan Pulskamp, asked me if we were related to Birgit Pulskamp in Germany. I told her we were probably not related, as I believe our entire family came over to the U. S. in 1845. But, when my daughter and I decided to go to Germany, we decided to contact […]
Read More..>>A Bit of the Family History
Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under Family history | 2 Comments
On July 5, 1845, a small ship, the Bark Louise, landed in New York harbor. On board was the Pulskamp family: Herman Heinrich Pulskamp, wife Maria Katherine, three sons, three daugthers, a niece and a nephew. Baby Gerd Heinrich Ludwig Pulskamp, only eleven weeks old when they boarded the ship in Bremen, died at sea, […]
Read More..>>World Wide Gathering of the Pulskamps
Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under Family history, World Wide Gathering of the Pulskamps | 3 Comments
Something unique is beginning to form in the Tri-State (Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio) area. The Pulskamp family, which arrived in this part of the world in 1845, is planning the first ever World Wide Gathering of the Pulskamps to be held in the Cincinnati area next August. (August 2008) In early July 1845, a family from Germany landed […]
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