We found the family linkage of Alfred and Sabine Schlotfeldt's family with our big family tree in July of 2006.Along with sons Christian and Dirk, they have much modernized this cottage, but it is still the same "home" it has been to generations of Schlotfeldts.The "Smoker Cottage" or "Räucherkate", was long ago part of the farm "Altmülen", where Bill Gilmore's Schlotfeldt ancestors also once lived.The cottage was named "Barsbek" on older maps of the 1872 era.After WWII it was still a place where the family smoked hams and sausages, but was renamed to today's "Ritzebek".It has been good to add the "Klausdorf Cousins" to our big charts.Fay has been trying to find that link since our first e-mail exchanges in 1998.Alfred and Sabine have now been visited by Marga Schlotfeldt as well as Bill & Leah Gilmore and their daughter from California. |