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When I was searching my great-great grandfather Hofmann's family, there was only sketchy information about which of his children, some grown and some not, had accompanied him on the trip. I was aware of one brother of my great grandfather because he had lived in the same town as my great grandfather. |
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Through naturalization records, I learned that one additional brother had emigrated to the United States. I learned this because the microfilm records are in order of naturalization at the court. As I looked up the records for the Hofmann family that I knew about, I also looked at the other people that came before and after. That was how I found another brother.
Later I found still another brother through census records. Then I checked his naturalization papers and it turned out that he had emigrated four years earlier and joined the family after they had arrived.
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