Thank you so much for this Fischer website. My great, great grandfather was Louis Fischer, born in 1837 in Bavaria and I’ve been searching for his town of birth for over 30 years. He emigrated at age 17 about 1854 and landed in Dubuque, Iowa. He fought in the Civil War, married and had five children, and died young in 1875. He only appears in two US censuses. I’m told he lived near the Black Forest with his uncle, as he was an orphan. They did not get along so his uncle paid for his passage. He heard that Dubuque was very similar to Heidelberg, which he may have visited. I’m about to talk a distant cousin into submitting his DNA to the Fischer research group.

Thank you,
Barbara