While preparing to write a Life Story on my grandmother, Emilie Stark Schachtschneider, I reviewed some of the documents that I had collected. What power there is in review of what you already have! I was looking at the New York ship manifest (which gave me a reminder that Emilie came through Ellis Island) when it came to my attention that Emilie was not traveling alone. Listed with her was an Edmund Stark, age 26. This made many things go through my head. Of course, the first thing was, who the heck is Edmund Stark? I had never heard of him before. Then I thought, is this the correct Emilie? Could this be a husband and wife instead of my grandmother and potentially a brother? The one notation that made me continue to think that this was my grandmother was the destination of these two Starks: Edgerton, Wis. What are the odds that two young people from Germany would specifically say they were going to the exact small...
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