Tuesday, April 24, 2012

christmas visit

Planning on visiting the Karlsruhe area between 12/27 to 12/29. Any suggestions for sightseeing, castles or scenic country side?


Also, looking for information on my family who moved from this area around 1900 to US and would like to create a family tree?




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For the family tree, go to the nearest Latter Day Saints (Mormon) family center. They have excellent records from Germany. We had more luck there looking for my wife%26#39;s grandparents%26#39;records than visiting the village where they had grown up and left to the US from.





As to Karlsruhe places: There are good trains to Heidelberg, Baden-Baden or, if you have a car, Speyer and - a bit west of Speyer - the villages along the Weinstrasse. (wine road).




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While the villages in the Weistrasse region are indeed best explored by car (though not necessary, there are a lot of local busses too in case you don%26#39;t want to drive) Speyer has good train connections to Karlsruhe, as have all bigger towns in the area.





You can also go to Wissembourg/Weissenburg at the German/French border, they have a beautiful old town and a huge monastery.

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