I was born in 1965 in Trier, Germany, and came of age in the Mosel Valley and the Hunsrück Hills. At 14, as a school-boy attending a Franciscian boarding-school, I developed an interest in history, especially family history. When I turned 16, after advancing to an academy in Trier, I frequented the Trier diocesan archives, where I researched my own family’s history. The director of the archives, noticing my interest and skills, ultimately offered me the responsability over research inquiries directed to the archives. I gratefully accepted this important position. At age 19 I graduated the academy, fulfilled my mandatory military service requirement honorably, then attended Trier University, specializing in geography, cartography, and regional economic development. I graduated from Trier in 1993, going on to work for German and Asian companies in the field of economic development. Throughout the term of my study at Trier, I had continued to work on genealogical requests and in the mid-1990’s it was to that passion I returned. Ever since those days I have had the satisfaction of providing numerous people from many countries the history of their German ancestors.

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