About bartblog
July 1, 2006
updated again August 5, 2008
Bartblog is a story about life in the Joe and Jaimie Bartmann family. It’s for any friends or family members who want to play. We hail from the top of a windy hill in a little South Dakota USA village, a few miles up the road from “The Lake.” There are five of us: Jaimie, Joe (that’s me) and the three beautiful little monsters.
Some of the stuff we talk about on bartblog (besides those beautiful bartmann girls) include: vacations, hiking, compost, worms, gardening, reading, living rural, poems, meditation, going green, getting debt free, and other nonsense.
That’s about it. I do most of the writing on bartblog, but rumor has it my lovely wife knows how to post too. Everyone is welcome to peek in, and don’t be afraid to spark a conversation. Just be nice.
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To life’s journey,
joe
July 7, 2007 at 11:05 pm
I’ve just recently learned that my maternal great-grandmother was a Bartmann from Essentho, Germany. She married Karl Muthmann and they settled in South Dakota. There can’t be that many Bartmanns from Essentho, so surely there is a family connection. I was interested in your citing a family history that goes “way back.” Please let me know who I might contact about that.
Dorothy Hager Causey
P.S. I live in Montrose, Colorado
April 29, 2008 at 7:01 am
Hi Joe I received some Bartmann family history information from you via my aunt, Dorothy Causey, which I was going to try to translate. I managed to get one page done quite easily, then I discovered it had already been done. I finished the other, labeled II. and sent it to Dorothy to forward to you. Now I am attempting the book. I can get the gist of it, basic information, but certainly not the finer points. I cannot connect my family to your information with what I know now. I have to do more research. Brenda Klema