10/28/2026
My genealogy find of the week on my Post side of the family tree: This is the Lutheran church in Basse, Mecklenburg, Germany, where my 2x great-grandmother, Friedericka Rachel Ahrens, was baptized in 1857. The church was built around 1364.
The Ahrens family was from Luhburg, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Friedericka immigrated to the US and married my 2x great-grandfather, Henry Lintner. Their daughter, Mary, is my great-grandmother (she married my great-grandfather, George Henry Post). Their son Gerald (Henry, of course) is my grandfather, and Ken is my dad.
Fun fact: Both great-grandmothers in my Pelz/Post line are named Mary.